Long trip in the van + Sickness = Not much fun

The last few weeks have been pretty good, with a few unfortunate things thrown in. We went to La Crete just this last weekend for my nephew Dion's wedding. The wedding was beautiful, but having the kids at the reception was slightly less than relaxing. We spent an extra day visiting and drove home yesterday. The trip home was really long. We had to wait at the ferry for a long time, and Lynsey was a bit sick (diarrhea) and a few stops were required. We stopped in Edmonton for a few hours before heading home. Yes, it was a really long day. Today was a very lazy day - Lynsey had two naps, which is unheard of, and I slept quite a bit as well. It's never good to feel ill the day after a big trip, when all I want to do is get caught up on everything, but what can you do! Things are starting to look up:).

I can't believe I'm still talking about this, but there is ANOTHER potty training update. I just can't believe she hasn't mastered this yet. I just want to pull my hair out already! Last Saturday, we were at our friends Bobbi and Jer's house, and she peed in her panties twice. And it wasn't like she was in desperate need of going - the first time was an hour and a half since the last time she'd gone, and the second time was like 20 minutes later. I was so frustrated! Brian and I talked about it and decided that she was clearly not motivated to master this skill yet, and we would put her back in Pullups until she decided she wanted to pee on the potty. It pains me, but it really is true what they say - you just can't force a kid to do something they don't want to do! We have tried rewards, taking away things she really likes (TV in the morning) and nothing seems to matter. I have now ordered her a Curious George doll in the mail and I've been telling her that she can only have it if she starts peeing on the potty, and it STILL doesn't seem to matter! And she really loves Curious George - a lot. I guess some people get lucky with kids who learn the potty fast AND want to do it - I am clearly not one of those people. Maybe God will have mercy on me and make Adam easy. Even as I'm writing that, I'm sure that won't happen. Oh, well - such is life!

Adam had a checkup two weeks ago Wednesday and is a healthy 20 lb 6.5 ounces. Apparently his weight gain has not slowed down much! I stopped feeding him at night a few weeks back, so he is now on a four bottle schedule. For a while, he kept waking up at 5 and not wanting to go back to sleep, but it's slowly been getting better. I think he was a bit hungry so he didn't want to go back to sleep, but Brian and I decided not to feed him until closer to 7 instead of giving him a little snack at 5 just to get him back to sleep. We thought that in the long run, making him wait would pay off. In fact, it's already starting to pay off. He had an 11 hour night when we were in La Crete! I could not have needed him to sleep well more than I did that night - I was sick and sooo tired, and him sleeping through the night was just an absolute Godsend. So in summary, he is slowly but surely getting onto a schedule that is acceptable to me. He goes to bed between 7:30 and 8, and is slowly starting to sleep longer in the mornings. Ideally, he would sleep 7:30 to 7:30, so we'll see when he can get there! He is becoming more interested in toys, finally starting to hang onto them for more than a few seconds, and actually putting them into his mouth. He still doesn't roll from his back to his tummy, but that has to be coming soon.