Though we’re in no rush, we decided to buy a training potty for Mads, just to get her used to the idea. Natch, we bought the one with all the bells & whistles – it sings, makes fun sounds, does everything short of dancing. She seemed to take to it, she’d sit on it, with or without a magazine and pretend flush when she was finished.
So, last Friday, when I pick her up from day care, her caretakers are telling me that I need to bring Pull-Ups on Monday. Huh?! Apparently, miss Mads has been requesting to use the potty after snacks and meals and has been successful using it! Of course, when she comes home, after meals, we go into the bathroom, I’m armed with books, puzzles and toys, and as we approach her potty, she looks up at me and says, “no”, and walks away. I try and coax her back in, short of offering chocolate or cookies, and again, “no”. I am supposing that it’s easier for her when she sees other kids doing it. And I thought this potty training this was going to be easy.
In other big-girl updates: we removed one of the crib side panels to make way for a big girl bed for Mads. Tonight is the first night so we’ll see how she does.
Al fresco
So last weekend, during the brief-est of heatwaves, we dined al fresco both for diner et dejuner. Saturday dinner we grilled some brats, with couscous and a tomato-cucumber salad, with fresh, homemade strawberry sorbet for dessert. For Sunday lunch, S grilled some marinated tri-tip from Mollie’s. Sides included cassava chips, my make-shift Meditteranean couscous salad: prepared organic couscous, chopped organic roma halved organic cherry tomatoes, chopped english cucumber, crumbled feta, chopped mint, olive oil and salt & pepper;
and a fruit salad: strawberries, pears, cara cara oranges, bananas, chopped mint. Both were delicious and refreshing on that sweltering day.
Seeing that Mads likes to splash around in the bathtub…and to our dismay, Lucie’s waterbowl, we naturally thought that she’d enjoy a wading pool. She splashed around alright, but do you think she took one step into the wading pool? Of course not. She threw her beach toys into the pool and made big splashes from kneeling over the edge of the pool and, yah, that was about it.
Coming up
I’ve got an occasion of sorts coming up and my goal was to find new dresses, but that didnt’ pan out too well. I suppose one can expect that from shopping online.