Potty training has continued to take a lot of our emotional energy this week (and sometimes physical with dashes to the nearest toilet!). She's definitely getting the hang of it but we are not accident free yet. The start of the week was good and thankfully she had 2 days at childcare with no accidents at all. But at the end of the week a few more accidents crept in. Mostly no.2 which is far less pleasant to clean up but at least doesn't go all over the floor too (yet!!). But at least we've made our way out of the house a few more times now. Still making sure we go places where there is a toilet nearby and I think I'm on edge the whole time waiting for that little cry "Mummy, wee wee" and working out how long it will take me to get to the toilet and how to do that with Lydia too. It is definitely tricky to use public toilets with a small toddler who needs to be held on the toilet to stop from falling in and a baby who I don't really want crawling round on the floor seeking out things to put in her mouth. Thankfully there have been a few helpful ladies in the bathrooms who have offered to hold Lydia for me. We'll get the hang of it.
Other than that this week has held lots of unpacking boxes and building flat pack shelving units for the girls' playroom. I'm very excited by the new storage I'll have for all of their toys. Unfortunately, one box had an incorrect piece in it so we can't finish building until they send us the replacement part. But out of the 8 sections to build we just have that 1 remaining. I reckon I should start my own business of building people's flat pack furniture. I've done so much of it over the past few years, I'm becoming an expert!
Not sure if I wrote before about what Pete and I are giving each other for Christmas but in case I didn't, we got each other a La-Z-Boy (a recliner seat for those who don't know). I had sat in one a couple of months ago and loved it. Finally managed to get Pete into the same store and between me and the sales man (and the chairs themselves) he agreed that this was a great thing for us to get. So he chose "The Big Man" chair – mostly suited to those who are grossly overweight but also made for those tall guys. So finally Pete will have a chair that is suited to his long legs and gives him the back support he needs in the right place. I'm wondering though if he's going to be so comfortable there that he'll end up sleeping in it rather than get out and go to bed! I went in to the store this week as I wasn't happy about the different fabrics on his and my chairs and the awesome sales guy agreed to re-upholster Pete's one for free. A bit of a silly move really as I went in prepared to pay for it so he would have got more commission. I think he wasn't sure how to work the computer properly and it was easier to just give it to me for free. Either way I was very happy and am super excited to be getting our new chairs. Mine is due to arrive early Jan and Pete's in early Feb (as his needs to be re-upholstered).
We got lots of Christmas present shopping done too which is great. More to do but at least we've done a big chunk of it.
The mother's group I go to at church also had a mum's night this Friday. Everyone brought a traditional Christmas dish to share so we had lots of yummy treats. Was a fun night and nice to be getting to know some of them a bit more, without the kids running around us too.
Pete is off to Dutch Harbour this week for a few days so it'll just be the girls and me. But with Naomi in childcare 3 days and the church group and my other mother's group, the week gets pretty full up so I'm sure the time he is away will pass quickly. And then it's less than a week until we get on the plane back to England – yippee! So looking forward to it. And it'll be good being back a week before Christmas, partly so we can get over jetlag, but also as I'll have done all the present shopping, I'll just be able to enjoy this wonderful time of year with most of the stressful bits (come on you know there are stressful bits to Christmas too) behind me.
Hope you are all enjoying Advent and remembering the real reason we're celebrating as well as enjoying those carols in the shops and the twinkly Christmas lights. I definitely am – I love Christmas.
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