Flying

I really HATE flying with a toddler. Funny how every time I am within days of flying somewhere, I stumble across an article on the internet about how to control your kids while flying. Maybe there are articles like this all the time and I just skip over them. But somehow, I doubt it. I think what is really happening is I somehow got my name on a secret list so that everytime I am about to fly, the airlines and the general public try desperately to get a message through to me about how to not make their lives so miserable. So, I'm giving a shout out to all ya'll who are going to be hearing from Bennett on Saturday--I got your friggin message! Sheesh! Bring earplugs!!!

So, if that wasn't paranoid enough....

We are flying to Portland on Saturday for a job interview. The practice is actually 1.5 hours north of Portland and about the same distance south of Seattle. I'm looking forward to checking it out. We will be there for an entire week. I have a feeling that it will only take us a day or two to decide if we dig the place or not but they bought the tickets so I'm not complaining.

This is going to be a HUGE month for us. After next week, we'll be home for 5 days then we'll be leaving again for more interviews in northern California (Eureka) and Kentucky (Somerset). We are still in talks with some other options so we may be adding more trip(s) at the end of the month as well. If all goes well, we'll have figured out where we want to live for the rest of our lives by the end of October. As exciting as it is to be at this stage, I am pretty freaked out by the HUGE committment we will be making. Keith is like a kid in a candy store though...every day he decides we are moving to a different town and has picked out a house on the internet and already has the first three months of weekend road trips planned out. Today he's TOTALLY moving to Kentucky. The day before that, he had practically applied for a California drivers license. I wonder what tomorrow will be....

By the way, any freaky stalkers out there....I have a HUGE guard dog and am in good with the local cops. Not only that, I'm taking a red eye flight home next week and if you even THINK about messing with my house while I'm gone, I'll track you down and make you babysit Bennett after his cranky night flight on the plane. So there.

A little surprise

Really, I don't mean to turn this into a potty blog....but we made progress yesterday. I'm a little confused by it but I'll take progress.

So, we've had a little potty next to the bathroom for a while now. Mostly Bennett likes to hide his toys in it but he does like to sit on it a few times a day. He's told us a few times that he had to go potty and after we hurry and strip him down, he sits for about one second and leaves. Whatever. Well, last night as I was putting Bennett to bed he asked to go to the potty. Sure...so I take him over, lift the lid.......and found a big yellow puddle inside. When did this happen? We really have no idea. It's not like the kid can dress himself so he must have made a naked pit stop after Keith took him out of the bath and sent him to me in the bedroom to get dressed for church. Neither one of us saw him do it. Weird.....

So his first big success in the potty went totally unnoticed and uncelebrated. Maybe he'll just train himself????

Potty training?

The other day after I changed a NASTY diaper of Bennett's, he pointed to his rolled up diaper and said "That's gross."

I totally agree buddy.

Does that mean he's ready to start training? As much as I would love to have him trained, the training is what I am dreading. It's like having a little dog around the house who discreetly makes messes that you end up finding later by mistake. Nothing worse than pulling back the curtain of the shower to find a lumpy little surprise. Yucka!

Anyone got a super fast, easy method for potty training?

Didn't think so....

Ouch

I'm so hot it hurts.

Maybe I should just leave that statement right there and you can interpret it any way you like. : )

Ok, never mind. I don't think I'm fooling anyone. It's so stinking hot in Philly right now I feel like I'm getting a sunburn just sitting on my couch. In my living room.

So, we don't have air conditioning in our house. Why? I have no idea. We have about 5 window units sitting in my attic right now but we keep thinking we are tough enough to make it through the summer without them. Why? I have no idea. It's so hot I can hardly move. Ugggg......

The rents will be here tomorrow afternoon through Monday. When I told them how hot it was, they threatened not to come. Maybe I'll put my dad to work and make him get some a/c going on around here. Or maybe I'll just go buy more popsicles....