My Life as Wife, Mommy, & Child: Getting into a new Rythm

We are almost a month into school for the year. Crazy how the time flies. We have gone through a lot of changes and adjustments during that month as we try to get used to our new normal.

In anticipation of potty training and just the fact that she is now 27 months, we felt that it was time to convert Madison's bed to a toddler bed.

Daddy needs helpers.

Can't wait to go to sleep.

Nigh-Night my baby girl.

We have had good times and bad times since the conversion. It started off going pretty well, but then she started having a couple days a week where she is up sometime between 3-4:30 for up to an hour. Where we are just putting her back in bed. She is frequently up for the day around 5:45 and often decides to wake up her sisters. It has been wonderful (sensing the sarcasm?). We will see how it goes, but there have been many days when I just want to switch her bed back to a crib.

We have 2 days a week where it is usually just Mommy & Madison, which has been fun.

One day I watched a friends 2 month old baby for a few hours and when I wasn't paying attention, Madison decided to accidentally dump a bag of Cheetos all over the carpet.

We also get to go shopping together. Madison is not the greatest shopper as she wants to be like her big sisters and be out of the cart on her own. She does not like to hold my hand and will frequently squat down or sprawl out on the ground when I try to grab her hand or hold her. All this to say, I have tried a new tactic so that her and I can shop together while I only have one kid. She gets to play on my old phone while we are in the stores. It has worked ok. So far, for the couple times I have tried, she gets tired of it by the time we get out of the store, so the first half of the trips are good an the second half, not so much.

My new normal for shopping trips.

The last week of August, I attempted to potty train Madison. We went straight to undies and spent an entire day of just her and I in the kitchen (tile flooring), with her getting pumped full of juice. I thought it went pretty well and that she was getting it, but the next 3 days showed she had no interest and it was a constant fight to get her on the toilet. So we have stopped trying and she is back in diapers. I hope to try again in a couple months.

Hanging out in the kitchen.

Here are a few other bits of randomness from the end of August:

Kyle wasn't able to get home on time for dinner one night and I had grilling planned. So I grilled the entire dinner by myself for the first time!!! I was pretty excited. It turned out pretty well (the meat probably could have stayed on tad longer).

One nice thing about Brooklyn being home on Fridays is she can still do things with friends. We went to a birthday party on a Friday morning at a local farm.