Sunday Summary

We started our Monday evening off in a traditional way. Here's how it goes:

1. Jessica has a recipe that says to GRILL chicken. Jessica does not have an outdoor grill. Because she is a "rule follower" she needs to barbecue the chicken. Luckily she has a grill component to her awesome stove. She begins prepping the indoor grill component.

2. Ryan begs Jessica to NOT grill the chicken. The grill component is not so awesome in the venting department and so the house is all smoky and the alarm goes off repeatedly. And it's messy. All these things bug Ryan.

3. Jessica ignores Ryan and begins to grill.

4. The smoke alarm begins it's ringing.

5. Seth has seen this happen so many times that he immediately grabs a towel and heads up the stairs (with Gabe) to wave it in front of the smoke alarm so that we can shut off the alarm for the next 30 seconds.

(6. Jessica makes a yummy BBQ Chicken Salad and Ryan exclaims: "You are the best wife ever and I hope you will continue to grill indoors forever!")

The Non-Traditional thing that happened on Monday was this:
Lindsey fixed the necklace Jane broke a few months ago. I dropped it off at her house (10 minute drive away) and she gets it done and drives it over to my house in one hour WHILE SHE IS GETTING READY TO MOVE and then apologizes for not having a long enough wire and making those cute earrings with the leftover beads.

This is the same Lindsey who did this post about cupcakes and then I wrote a comment whining about my morning sickness and pregnancy cravings and the next day she showed up with a plate of cupcakes (half cake, half frosting: just how I like them). I was planning a post to thank her, and I kept planning to take a picture of me porking out on them, but then I ate them all before I could get a picture, so then I didn't do the post.

So for those reasons and others, I'm jealous you Arizona bloggers get to be close to Lindsey (stop by her blog and say hi). She's OBVIOUSLY a good blogger to be close to.

Wednesday, upon returning from the gym at 6:30 am, I noticed Seth's light on. (He often wakes up in the night, turns on the light and then plays until he's ready to fall back asleep). When I left for the gym the light wasn't on, so I knew he'd gotten up. Ryan was still asleep and Seth wasn't in his room, so I was a little worried he'd headed outside for a walk or something. I walked all over the house and finally found him like this:


Here he is in the girls' room, asleep bridging the gap between the chair and the trundle bed. He slept like that for another 90 minutes.

THURSDAY WAS THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR!!!!! See this picture:

this is me and Seth so happy together because, starting on Thursday, he began going to the potty on his own, without any reminders and hasn't had an accident since!!!

He'd been going in the potty and totally holding it, but had never, in 13 days, initiated going on his own. I'd given up and told him a few days before that he could wear his "Iego" (Diego) underpants until he had an accident and then he had to wear diapers. I did that for a few days and he really hated the diapers.

On Thursday morning, he got down from the breakfast table and ran to the potty and went. I ran upstairs to tell Ryan the happy news and, seriously, HAD TEARS IN MY EYES. It was a little embarrassing to cry in front of my husband about my two year old going pee, but you KNOW how it is...

On Saturday, Jane was the completely cutest thing EVER at her dance recital. These pictures are so ridiculously bad, due to no flash (the "dancers could be blinded and fall off the stage"--direct quote), not-that-great camera and distance. But seriously, you would have died at the cuteness of her Hippy Hippy Shake.


And this picture is Ryan participating in the dance recital (his first EVER) and I'm sure you would all like me to go into detail about the fight we had about this number, the 4 hour long dress rehearsal, etc. (I would if I were you) but I shouldn't. It all ended just fine and in much darlingness.

We also had a GREAT time on Saturday with Romney aunts, uncles and cousins, and despite the 5 blogs between us, didn't manage to get a single picture. Mostly I think it's cause they were mad I beat them so badly at Speed Scrabble, but whatever.

(thanks Doug and Marcie for a fun Rainy Saturday Afternoon!)

We actually have some sun today, so excuse me while I go try to get my Vitamin D requirement for the week by taking a walk with my family. I have to hurry: it's supposed to rain all week. Welcome to June.