Seven years ago today I woke to a text from my future husband telling me to get out of bed and check my email. It was like 8:30 in the morning at the time and I did not feel like getting out of bed but something inside me said to do it. So I drug myself across my room to my computer to check my email. When I opened it I found an email from him telling me that today was a special day. It was our 19 month anniversary on the the 19th of the month you see.
The email told me that I was to be dressed and ready to go by 11am sharp. It told me that he was taking me somewhere but he wouldn't tell me where (and not to try asking because he knew I would). He told me that I could wear flip flops if I wanted (the man know I love me my flip flops). I started to panic. What on earth could he be talking about? I had to know! But he wouldn't budge. I rushed to take a shower and do my hair and get ready.
11 am fast approach and I was getting nervous. My roommate kept telling me he was going to propose but I kept telling them they were nuts. That was really me trying to calm myself down in case that was true.
11am on the dot he knocked on my apartment door. What? He's never been on time the entire time I had known him. This couldn't be true. But it was! We got in the car and he started driving. I tried to pry out of him where he was taking me but he wouldn't budge.
He drove all over the place. Down winding roads and past Amish farmhouses. I had NO IDEA where we were going (although that's not hard since he grew up in the area and I did not). Finally we arrived at a local industrial park. We got out of the car and he took a picnic lunch out the trunk. We walked across the street and he "randomly" picked a spot by the pond to sit. We sat and had a nice lunch by the pond. Ok I thought THIS was the surprise.
After we finished eating he gave me a gift bag. I was nervous but thought "hey this is too big to be a ring." I opened the bag and found a little photo album with a post-it note on the front. The note told me not to skip ahead and to just go in order. OOOOOKKKKKKKKK. I started looking through the book and there were pictures of us. Pictures of the cats we were planning to adopt in just a few short weeks. Then there were pictures of things that were around us. The weird statue thing behind us. The pond in front of us.Then there were pictures of letters from random signs. Like an "L" from the Lowe's sign (that is where I worked in college). It started W I L L. (OMG OMG OMG!) The letters spelled "Will you marry" and then there was a picture of him holding a sign that said "this guy?"
OMG this is happening! I looked over at him like "are you for real?" He grabbed the bag of chips and dumped it all over the blanket and out fell a plastic baggie with a ring box in it. He got down on his knee and asked me to marry him. OMG YES! I said YES!
The rest is kinda history now but I like to remember that day every year on April 19th. The day my life changed.
Happy Engagement Anniversary!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Adventures in Potty Training
It's been a little over a week since Norah has decided that she was ready to use the potty. It was the early last week that she tried to go potty before taking her bath. We let her sit on the potty and she squeezed out a few drops. We made a big deal about what a big girl she was (note: as soon as her feet hit the bath water she finished peeing). I quickly made her a potty chart (I had gotten everything to do it I just hadn't made it yet) she got her sticker and put it on the chart. She thought that was so cool.
The next night when I came home from work she had spiked a 103* fever out of no where. She wasn't taking the Tylenol that we were trying to give her so the doctor suggested we give her a bath while we waited to bring her in. When we took her upstairs she insisted on trying the potty again. I wasn't expecting much because she was so sick. Well I should set my hopes lower more often! She full out peed on the potty! My mind? It was blown. How could such a sick little girl go for real potty for the first time? I don't know but she did. She got another sticker and was so proud of herself.
She continued on that weekend using the potty about half the time. She even pooped on the potty on the third day. I was like WHA? I thought this was going to be super hard. We had been trying to get her to use the potty for a while now. She has been telling us for months when she was about to poop but she always refused to use the potty saying, "no I poop my diaper. you change my diaper." So yeah I was expecting more of a fight.
We went out and got some pull-ups. She is in love with them because 'Punzel in on them. She gets really mad when she has to wear one that only has Cinderella on it. Why do they have either 3 princesses or just Cinderella? Why can't each of them have their own diaper? Lame.
Anyway we took pull-ups to daycare for her to use. She is still about 50% actually using the potty. Either she does great in the morning not wetting herself or better in the evenings. After a the first few days last week she kind of decided that she just didn't want to try I guess. She threw a huge fit in the morning that she didn't want to wear a pull-up and I noticed on her paper for daycare that she didn't use the potty at all that day. I'm trying really hard to keep her in the pull-ups and I keep asking her if she has to go potty.
I would say she always poops on the potty unless it happens while she napping. Which is good because lets face it I'm tired of changing poopy diapers. The peeing is harder. She gets so distracted playing with friends that she just goes in the diaper.
She's doing a great job though. She has filled two and a half lines on her potty chart. Granted I made short lines because we thought it would be daunting for her to fill up a big line her first time. I made six rows with 5 boxes each. She decided to fill them long ways so she has to get six stickers instead of five before she gets a prize. I guess that's better for us. Last night when she finished a line she said "I cover my eyes and get a prize." She held her hands over her eyes while Mitch went to get her prize. She's such a goober sometimes!
Ok this is long. In summary: potty training is going great and was very unexpected at this time.
The next night when I came home from work she had spiked a 103* fever out of no where. She wasn't taking the Tylenol that we were trying to give her so the doctor suggested we give her a bath while we waited to bring her in. When we took her upstairs she insisted on trying the potty again. I wasn't expecting much because she was so sick. Well I should set my hopes lower more often! She full out peed on the potty! My mind? It was blown. How could such a sick little girl go for real potty for the first time? I don't know but she did. She got another sticker and was so proud of herself.
She continued on that weekend using the potty about half the time. She even pooped on the potty on the third day. I was like WHA? I thought this was going to be super hard. We had been trying to get her to use the potty for a while now. She has been telling us for months when she was about to poop but she always refused to use the potty saying, "no I poop my diaper. you change my diaper." So yeah I was expecting more of a fight.
We went out and got some pull-ups. She is in love with them because 'Punzel in on them. She gets really mad when she has to wear one that only has Cinderella on it. Why do they have either 3 princesses or just Cinderella? Why can't each of them have their own diaper? Lame.
Anyway we took pull-ups to daycare for her to use. She is still about 50% actually using the potty. Either she does great in the morning not wetting herself or better in the evenings. After a the first few days last week she kind of decided that she just didn't want to try I guess. She threw a huge fit in the morning that she didn't want to wear a pull-up and I noticed on her paper for daycare that she didn't use the potty at all that day. I'm trying really hard to keep her in the pull-ups and I keep asking her if she has to go potty.
I would say she always poops on the potty unless it happens while she napping. Which is good because lets face it I'm tired of changing poopy diapers. The peeing is harder. She gets so distracted playing with friends that she just goes in the diaper.
She's doing a great job though. She has filled two and a half lines on her potty chart. Granted I made short lines because we thought it would be daunting for her to fill up a big line her first time. I made six rows with 5 boxes each. She decided to fill them long ways so she has to get six stickers instead of five before she gets a prize. I guess that's better for us. Last night when she finished a line she said "I cover my eyes and get a prize." She held her hands over her eyes while Mitch went to get her prize. She's such a goober sometimes!
Ok this is long. In summary: potty training is going great and was very unexpected at this time.
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