Quiet January

Things have been pretty quiet around here for the month of January. The weather has been up and down. Saturday it was 40+F and to day it is -3F. We took advantage of the warm weather on Saturday and played outside for the first time in a long while. The snow was melting and the sun was warm and then we hit the deep freeze again and are having to chop ice out of the water trough for my horse. Oh well, it is the last day of January.

Our latest struggles have been with Katelyn, keeping her diaper on during nap time or bed time. The first struggle was getting her to keep her pajamas on , but after she learned to shimmy out of her diaper and wet the bed, the pajamas aren't such a big thing anymore. I'll put her down for a nap with some books and she'll pee and takes off her diaper and then later falls asleep and wets the bed. One day, she called, "Da-yee, Da-yee" (daddy) and she had taken off her poopy diaper and had it all over her body and on her crib. This morning she took if off and had just dumped the poop out on her bedding. One nap time, she woke up and called us. We go in there and she looks at us and points to the puddle, "wa-er". (water) Oh the struggles. So we're thinking that maybe potty training may be in order and soon.

I haven't taken a lot of photos this month. I keep forgetting to buy batteries. We have a few new videos of her trying to eat when she's very tired. I must up load those. Other than that, I've been making more felt food for her and adding to the collection. I think I've spent $8 this month on pieces of felt. Still many ideas to come. I undertook the idea of making a muffin tin with a cereal box and grey felt. It turned out not too bad with 4 muffins. I know, pictures must come to explain felt food to people. She doesn't really play with it that much. She likes to dump out the bag and walk on it. Sometimes, she'll put it in a bowl or pot and she makes interesting soups and sometimes I can sample them. I did undertake real baking with her. Banana chocolate chip muffins were in order. I measured everything before so she could just dump it in. She put all the liners in the tin and put the chocolate chips on the batter. I think she had fun and she loves to eat those muffins. She's a great little helper, when she listens.

She went to her first birthday party yesterday. Her friend Emma, turned 5 and had a party at the Rumble park. It's a big building where they have 4 big inflatable slides and trampolines. There were tons of kids there, because they couldn't rent the whole place for the party so there were other kids just playing there. Katelyn is getting better and better playing with all the other kids, she still gets knocked around but she holds her own. She loved the big slide which I make daddy take her up because he can climb and carry her up there. We got Emma's dad Jason in on the slide and we couldn't get the guys off. They weren't actually supposed to be up there, but Katelyn did need help. 2 hours of playing, then cake and ice cream + no nap, meant Katelyn crashed on the way home. Which we made a stop to help a family clean up the hay bales that fell on the four lane highway during a very windy trip. I shouldn't say we, since I stayed in the car because I had my good clothes on and katelyn was sleeping, but other people stopped and helped clean up the mess.

Nothing exciting is on the horizon as far as we know. We kind of take it day by day around here.
Super bowl parties will be happening next weekend, so we'll see where we end up.