Dear wife, don't stress about the baby eating. She's big and solid now and very active and eats what she wants when she wants it. She's fine. She's a very healthy baby. Maybe swing by Andronico's and get that pumpkin pie stuff she likes.
Potty Training: Aiyeeeeeeee. God it sucked with Emmett. That was a very stressful year. He peed in the potty fine, but pooping was a nightmare. He would
half poop in his pants, and not tell. Then he'd get an awful rash so that wiping him was a painful, screaming event. Then he'd get horribly backed up and constipated because he wouldn't poop. So we'd have to get him to drink mineral oil to get it out.
Ultimately it was his daycare provider who sat beside him while he was on the potty for forty-five minutes every day, encouraging him and being patient.
The one thing I know is you've got to be calm and patient. Very calm. Very patient.
And how much gin did you go through during that time?
And how much gin did you go through during that time?
Heh. Is that to me? There was much stress and drinking, yes.
It was unbelievably amazing how much easier parenting got after Emmett was 4 1/2. So many of those thesholds had been crossed, most importantly - some basic grasp of causality. The ability to not only communicate but say "this equals that" was huge.
The water/sewer utility out here charges an 80% surcharge on your bill. Sometimes, the surcharge is more than the bill.
Dude, that's just like EBMUD. My last bimonthly bill was like this:
ACTUAL WATER I USED: $1.65
Water Service Charge: $17.30
Seismic Improvement Program Surcharge: $3.20
Wastewater Treatment Charge: $19.03
SF Bay Residential Pollution Prevention: $0.18
City of Oakland Sewer Service: $36.10
TOTAL: $77.46
Does that seem right to you?
Does that seem right to you?
But hey, your water has been seismicly improved.
I should totally be working but I really don't want to. I have to get a slide deck done by end-of-day Friday, do reading and an assignment for my class by next Tuesday, and visit juvie hall Thursday night and Friday morning. I have no time to procrastinate and yet...
Em is doing ok and there are extenuating circumstances to her not being potty trained
HUGELY extenuating. And, speaking COMPLETELY out of my field of expertise, it strikes me as a
good
thing that she's got something to control, you know? Her world has gone a bit topsy-turvy these last few months and rather than be a little doormat about it or get depressed she's all "Yeah? You can't make this change. It's up to me."
Lord
knows
where the child of Joe & Aimee picked up an obstainant streak...
t casual whistling
So tired of applying for jobs.
So tired of children's television.
Trying to work up energy to take Em to stupid Treehouse.
Going mad.
Such a good Daddy
Such a good Husband
Such a good good man. A very good man.
You won't go mad -- Aimee and Em love you so very very much.
That is awesome, and I think I need to give it a try. I don't suppose your mother took any pictures, did she? The resultant cute might kill us all, but I think we'd be willing to take the chance.
Ha! No. I don't think so.
In earworm news...
and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth...
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