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How about 9 1/2 Hours?

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Last night Dallas and I put the girls to bed.  Then we found ourselves lounging around playing various versions of Sudoku late into the night.  You know the feeling of being dead tired but not wanting to go to bed?  That’s what was happening.  As we were finally getting ready for bed I said something like, “I wish we were on vacation without the girls and could just sleep in tomorrow as late as we wanted.”

Then we slept.  And slept.  And slept.  I vaguely recall Caroline squawking, but she quickly put herself back to sleep.  And so did I.

The girls both slept in until 9:30 a.m.  NINE-THIRTY A.M.!  That is unheard of.  I don’t know if it was your fervent prayers on my behalf that were answered or if the girls sensed that my sanity depended on them staying quiet for a couple of extra hours this morning.

In any case, it was a wonderful morning.  Let’s hope for a repeat tomorrow.

Adventures in Parenting

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Really Smart Valedictorian?

Rotting, Slimy Vegetables?

Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle?

Rebecca’s Silly Voice?

Respiratory Syncytial Virus?

Yep, that one.  RSV.

This little girl has it:

We’re doing lots of breathing treatments, temperature taking, oral medicine drinking, coughing, wheezing, and cuddling.

Last night Brooke decided she’d add “throwing up all over our dry-clean-only comforter” into the mix.

Fun times in the Golden household.

Yes, This is a Potty Training Post

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Potty training.

[Imagine a huge sigh as I say those two words.]

We’ve been training for months.  MONTHS.  I won’t calculate exactly how many months because that number depresses me.  The first two weeks of training were hard.  Brooke was scared to go in the potty.  By week three, she had caught on and was having regular success.  By week four she was completely potty trained at home.

By about week 8 she started regressing.  The word “regression” doesn’t even do justice to the situation that we found ourselves in.  She regressed so far that she was less potty trained by week 20 than she was at week 1.  You ask, “Can that even happen?”

Yes, my friends, yes it can.

We took a potty training break during Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Once the new year started, we decided to give it a try again.

The progress has been slow, but I can finally say I think we are actually making progress.

[Another huge sigh.]

She hasn’t had a day-time accident in a while.

She often wakes up from her nap dry.

And then, this morning, after a full-night’s sleep, she woke up dry.

That light, that little glimmer of light that I’m seeing, is that the light at the end of this nightmarish tunnel?

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Well, now that GoldenDance is over, I feel like I should post something.

During the two weeks that Dallas was posting videos I kept thinking about things I should blog about.  Now that the videos have ended, I can’t remember anything about what I was going to write.

How about a Brooke story?

Brooke has been talking about heaven a lot lately.  Our upstairs neighbor had been out of town for several weeks.  She came back and we heard her walking around.  Brooke noticed the noise, stopped what she was doing and said, “Mom!  I hear heaven!”

Our little Caroline is getting her first two teeth.  She’s also started rocking and bouncing as she’s sitting up.  This allows her to scoot a little bit to grab things that have fallen out of reach.  I think mobility is in her future.  When that time comes, we may be trapping her in this drawer more often.

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