I opened the skylights upstairs this
afternoon because it was so hot. We don’t open them often since
there are no screens, but I did today. Later, Alan took Lex up
for a bath. After his bath Lex ran into his room, “naked boy,”
he loves it. Alan took a minute longer in the bathroom then
went into Lex’s room, and found him standing on the back rail
of the changing table, face and arm out the skylight, trying to
climb up the wall. If Lex had thought to climb on the nearby
dresser we could have had a serious accident! Alan called for
me to come see (standing right next to Lex, of course, to keep
him safe). It was scary. Don’t think I’m opening that window
again! Or maybe we need to rearrange the furniture so he can’t
reach the skylight…

I know it’s been a
while here. I’ve been busy and oh so tired. Eve and Lex both
have lingering colds. She sleeps a lot and he cries a lot.
Luckily they don’t both cry a lot! There is always so much to
be done so I don’t end up sleeping as much as I probably
should.

We made our first attempt at
potty training this past weekend. It was ok, but not great. I
don’t think Lex is really ready for it yet, but I don’t think I
can deal with six more months of kicking and tantrums every
time I try to change his diaper. I’m trying to find a Love and
Logic way to handle it, but haven’t found anything yet, and I
find myself getting frustrated quickly when I’m tired, he’s
been crying all day, and now he’s kicking me and grabbing for a
poopy diaper. It’s hard to think clearly in situations like
that :) But we will survive. Still debating about how to handle
the potty training. Some friends recommended doing it outside,
which would be cool, but a little weird in our new
neighborhood. We did a “naked day” and Lex loved it, though I
don’t think he liked the constant attention as much. Alan and I
took turns watching him like a hawk in the hopes of preventing
“accidents” on the carpet. He used the potty a few times, but
used the carpet as well. Besides the vigilant watching, the
other hard part was that we couldn’t really do anything else.
Can’t do housework or anything and watch him close enough. It
was such a beautiful day too. “Naked day” ended up being only
half a day because when he woke up from his nap he asked to go
out outside “go outside, want to play with Jack” and it was so
nice and Alan and I really wanted to go outside as well. So
that was the end of potty training.

Anyway, along the lines of sleep, I should probably go
back to bed now. I’ll be up again soon enough.