where has my little angel gone?! i catch glimpses of her on and off throughout the day, but the rest of the time, she's been replaced with an unreasonable, stubborn and disobedient child! she screams at me that she wants help, but won't tell me what she wants help doing, and starts throwing things and kicking and screaming when she doesn't get my help on whatever it is she wants!! yesterday, she peed on the floor twice just out of spite! i know this because she'd been using the potty all morning until she wanted candy without doing anything, then she squatted on the floor and promptly peed. well, she doesn't get candy for peeing on the floor, so i told her no again. so she did it again. if it weren't for the fact that i'm trying not to spank, that little girl would have been mighty sore yesterday. on the other hand, she's really sweet and lovely other times, like when she just wants to give me hugs and kisses and she wants to take care of mali. if the whole next year is going to be like this, i don't know if both of us will make it through!
on a high note, though, we've had major progress with the potty training. i know she's still probably too young to expect her to be completely done any time soon, but i'm pretty optimistic about it anyway. she tells me when she needs to poop so she can poop on the potty. in the mornings, when i let her go without a diaper, she pees on the potty (unless she's mad at me, of course). when she wakes up in the morning, she's almost completely dry. nap time diapers, though, aren't as lucky. oh, well. i'm just happy we're moving forward at all! i told a friend yesterday that motherhood is so glamerous...i have never been so excited about poop as i have the last few days. i can only hope that it gets better than poop from here. i don't know what could be worse on the excitement scale!
today, i'm going to the eye doctor (that'll be fun for the girls...) so hopefully i'll be able to see while i'm in florida. then we'll probably spend the rest of the day at home getting things ready for the trip (i have a housesitter, so i have to make sure everything is cleaned and squared away), get packed, make dinner, etc. then our parents as teachers representative is coming to evaluate the girls tonight during dinner. so fai will feed one kid while i'm with the other getting evaluated, then i'll send her on into the kitchen to eat while the other one gets a turn. she said it will take about an hour and a half, so there won't really be much time left to do anything tonight before they go to bed. then i have some writing and sewing and laundry to do so i won't have to do so much on saturday before we leave sunday morning.
the weather is getting cooler here and i have to admit that i've missed the fall while we lived in florida. it's beautiful. the leaves raining down in colorful waves, the fun crunching under our shoes, the fun activities they hold in the park this time of year. it's really nice. i'm glad we moved here so that the girls get to experience it. the winter, however, i still hate.
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