Where to begin. I feel like I am so behind and for my children's sake I have to do a little rewind. February 14th was almost an entire month ago but deserves to be talked about. I took Eva to school in the morning, only to come home and have Matthew show up with two set of roses. He can be so sweet sometimes, even though he swears up and down he really doesn't like the holiday. Well, I do, and so we had a little fun with the kids and threw them a little party. My friend, Vanessa, made the best sugar cookies, and the kids had fun decorating them. We had some pizza, red punch, red jello...everything was perfect. The kids had a blast playing around the house, and I had awesome company. All the friends left, minus, my friend, Anjane, who stayed with me because our hubbies had planned out a special night in for us. It was cool to see the boys make our dinner: yummy walnut fish, with a salad, the best baked potato I have had here in Mexico, and bread. It was the works. We even ate by candlelight and iPad fireplace. They even planned out the music we would listen too. Conversation was awesome and it was a night I won't soon forget. Matthew outdid himself this year.
Fast forward a little and we are in March. It has been about two weeks now and I am happy to saw that my little Elijah is potty trained! I was starting to think it would never happen. If anyone remembers I had Eva trained a week after her second birthday. Elijah? Well, two months before his third birthday. They say all your children can't be the same, and that is the truth. It all started about three weeks ago when I decided to pull off the diaper when we were home. I wasn't having any luck and I was getting pretty stressed because he was peeing all over the place and he didn't care if he was sitting in his own urine. But, fast forward a week, and all of a sudden he was telling me "peepee mama" and we would run to the bathroom and he would go. Every once in a while we have our accidents but they are starting to be less. Yesterday we were at church and I decided to send him in underwear. Last week I was too scared and put a diaper on him. Well, he was sitting in church, crouching, and all of a sudden I hear him quietly say, "peepee mommy" and I take him and we run out of the sacrement meeting. I run him into the bathroom only to find that he went half in his underwear and shorts and the other half in the toilet. Lucky for us, I had an extra outfit, so I went back into the chapel, left him in the bathroom naked, and changed him into a plaid pair of shorts that definitely did not coordinate with his plaid Sunday shirt. Oh well. At least we had something to change him into. I have had my fair share of nuggets in the underwear incidents, urine in my hair incidents (boy urine can shoot, I tell you), and encounters with my bleach spray, but I am happy to report that it is official, my boy is potty trained!
In other news, we are moving. With the financial situation the way it is, the government cut our loans, so we can no longer live better than we were living in the states. Bye, bye, swimming pool and tennis courts, and beautiful homes...we are moving over with the "poor people." I really think I should hit myself, because I am being so mean. So, now if anyone ever decides to come and visit me, you will get a real glimpse of Mexico. Okay, it isn't that bad. I am actually excited to move into our new place. It has a great park, the kids will be able to ride their bikes in front of our house (which they haven't been able to do very well in this place), we will be really close to Eva's new school for next year, and Matthew will be close to the hospital he will be at next semester. Not to mention we will be paying half of what we are paying in our current place! I will post pics of our new place soon. The landlord said I should get keys this Wednesday, and as soon as I have internet in the new place, we are moving over there. For now, I have been taking the kids to the pool everyday that I can, enjoying it while we still have it.
Eva has been saying some cute things lately. Here are a few of them.
- First, we were at the pool the other day, and she had her arms out and said to me,"Look mom, I'm floating." Then I said to her, no Eva you're swimming. Silly girl figured it out on her own.
- Eva can be such a pain when it is time for bed. She does anything and everything she can to get out of going to bed. So, Matthew said to her that she better go to bed or he was going to spank her bare bottom. Well, Eva grabs her teddy bear and says, "This bear's bottom?" We about died laughing.
- Way back in Sisters, she asked if deer were supposed to walk on the road. And we asked why she wondered that. She said, "Why are there signs on the road letting deer be on them."
- The other day when we were listening to Pandora she said if the song was from Mary Puttins. (aka Poppins)
- She was telling Elijah the other day that poop and pee go in the toilet. Then she proceeded to tell me that that was why Jesus gave us toilets.
- Eva was in the bathroom and I hear her say,"Mom, Elijah has to see me go poop so he can learn huh?" Meanwhile, Elijah is saying, "Oh WOW, queque!" (Elijah's nickname for Eva)
- And while listening to Pandora she says to me that you have to sign up your passport (aka password) and then you get music.
- And lastly, she always says pouldn't for couldn't. When she goes in the pool she needs her gobbles instead of goggles. And we do get spiritual around these parts, but it is mostly wondering why we pray before we eat and why we have to go to church.
Gotta love children.
