I have been meaning to tell you what Caden did a few weeks ago. It was a Sunday, so I was in the house getting the boys and myself ready alone. I came downstairs and put Caden in his high chair - all 5 points of the harness - and went into the kitchen to fix breakfast. While Corban and I were in the kitchen, Caden was fussing the whole time... then all of a sudden I didn't hear him fussing. What I did hear was little feet pounding the floor. That's right, he got out of the straps of the high chair, got out of the seat, and somehow got down out of the high chair by himself. You should have seen him, he looked so proud of himself!

Yesterday after breakfast I was talking to the woman I babysit for and I had a show on for the boys. I kept hearing a noise in the dining room, but I thought it was the blinds clicking together. When I got off the phone I had to go in search of Caden. He was sitting up in the middle of the table surrounding by a mess - huge mess. Scary thing was, I had my sewing maching and a pair of scissors on the table. There's no telling how much damage he could have done with those.

Potty training is going really well. Corban hardly ever has an accident in the house, but we're having problems while we're out. Even though he's been in public restrooms, I don't know that he gets the idea of being able to use those whenever he needs. He's also doing really well with his eye. It looks horrible, but it doesn't seem to bother him anymore. We've got to go back to the ER on Saturday to get them out. I'm thinking they'll have to put him in the papoose again, so I'm not looking forward to that.

However, Libby and Cameron and the kids are coming up on Thursday! We're going to go to the zoo and hopefully get the kids to the photo studio to get pictures of the four of them together. I hate it that Corban's eye is going to look like it does, but this is the first time we've all been together when we've had a few spare minutes to get it done and I think it will be a great Christmas surprise for John and Paulette. Well, both boys are up now and I'm going to go make waffles and then head to the grocery store. I have a HUGE order of groceries to get b/c we're having company this weekend, plus having a cookout on Sunday, plus we're just out of everything. This should be interesting with a potty training toddler.

By the way, it is not 8 whatever, it is 11:35

Traumatized

We just got home from the ER. Corban stood up in the tub and fell and hit his face on the edge of it. He cut his eyelid pretty badly. It quit bleeding pretty quickly and he was acting fine, but we went ahead and took him to the ER. We were sure they were just going to send us home, but they decided it needed stitches. IT WAS HORRIBLE! They laid him on this stretcher thing that had straps that came around and velcroed. He looked like a burrito when they had him in it. If that wasn't bad enough, they had to put the thing over his face with a hole in it where he needed stitched, so he was in the dark, which I might add he hates. He screamed the whole time they were doing it and for probably about 45 minutes after. I'm glad we took him since he needed stitches, but man, was it rough. Now I'm all jittery and can't settle down.

Today had been a great day too. We had church, leftovers for lunch, and the boys took good naps while Johnny and I watched several episodes of 24 - Season 4. When the boys woke up, we went to play mini golf. Someone had given us a really good coupon that expires soon, so we took advantage of this beautiful day. Johnny's got Corban down to sleep. I'm gonna go talk to my husband and try to calm down.

I feel like crap. Potty training is going OK. We've got a birthday party for the afternoon/evening. I've got the bulletin done. Caden has discovered the word "No." But he also says "Daddy" and "Mama." We ate out last night, but it was miserable because we didn't get there until almost 8 and both kids were a little too antsy.

Potty training is actually going very well. So far he has pooped twice in the potty, and not at all in his pants! Both times it has been right after supper and he's just gotten down from his seat, gone into the bathroom, and taken care of business. I was riding a high for the rest of the evening last night, I was so proud of him! Today we're trying it with underwear though, so we'll see how this goes. Right after I put them on him, he peed, but since then he's gone once on the potty. I guess it's just that he's so young and learning control, but man, this boy has lots of pee in him! I think he's gone at least 5 times this morning. I need him to be more like me and only go about twice a day!

We had a rough night last night. For some reason they were both awake most of the night and Caden still doesn't feel good, so he's an especially cranky baby today. I guess I can't really call him a baby, he's officially a toddler, but he's still my baby!

Right now they're playing in the play room with me. Corban is alternating between playing with the mega blocks and making a train out of every vehicle he has. Caden is just getting into stuff and whining every few seconds. I'm going to get these boys some lunch and hopefully they'll both take great naps - and maybe I will too!

I have officially started potty training Corban. We started yesterday and so far he hasn't ever really told me that he needed to go, but we only had 3 accidents on the floor yesterday and none today! He's just going naked from his waist down and wearing a pull-up at night and at nap. Hopefully we can keep this up for a while and make some progress. I'm optimistic that we can have him mostly potty trained by the time that we come to KY in October.

We went to Williamsport for Kenan's first birthday this weekend. Doesn't seem like just a year ago that he had such a rough start to his life, but he's a healthy happy little boy now! We came home Monday, and we've basically been in since then. Caden has had a cold, so I haven't been able to go to the Y and I haven't needed to go anywhere else. We were going to have someone watch the boys while we went to group tonight, but Caden's fever has come back up, so we don't want to do that to anyone, so it looks like I'm staying home tonight.

Oh yeah, and Corban has started lying to us! I asked him this weekend if he needed a diaper change and he said, "No, Daddy just changed me." Johnny asked him another time and he said, "No, Grammy just changed me." Little stinker. Obviously we had not just changed him! I just watched Caden pick up Corban's bear and toddle over to Corban and hand it to him. Too cute! Caden is definitely getting a little personality. The other night we had our small group over here and Corban was in the play room, so Caden had us all to himself. He was running from one end of the room to the other roaring at us and then laughing hysterically.

This weekend we've got an 80th birthday party for a member of the church and then next weekend we're hoping for Libby and Cameron and the kids to come visit us. If that doesn't happen, we're headed out to an orchard for a fall festival type thing. October is filling up too, and then it will be the holiday season and Christmas shopping will sneak up on me.

Today Johnny left early this morning to go fishing. Now he's home and has both kids in the kitchen cooking supper. We've had a blah kind of day. We went to the Y this morning, played for a while in the play room and outside, had lunch and took naps. Oh yeah, did I mention that I got ridiculously angry at Corban? I am so tired of that boy grabbing things... everything... he takes things off tables, countertops, out of my purse. He just gets stuff all of the time and I'm ALWAYS telling him to stop. Today while I was fixing lunch he grabbed my half full cup of tea off of the end table and got it all over himself and the couch. UGH! After it was all over and we had made up, he said, "you scared me mommy." Now if that doesn't make me feel like crap.

We don't have plans for tomorrow, but Sunday after church we're headed to Williamsport for Kenan's 1st birthday. The party is at 5:30 Sunday evening and we'll stay the night and come home on Monday. We finally got new DVD players for the car, so I'm not dreading the traveling so much.