I’m a Big Kid Now

So we are in the depths of toddlerhood now. It’s really amazing watching your tiny little baby transform into a “real person” right before your eyes. Often it makes a mom want to cry for a bit but the look of accomplishment on your child’s face when they start to realize that they’ve just learned something new is always worth it. Our 2 latest things for Claire have been adventures of beginning potty training and finally being allowed to face forward in the car seat. Here are some pictures of both.

First, a few from “potty training weekend” where we went bottomless in an attempt to let her make the connection between what she feels before and her announcements after she “pee-pees” and “poo-poos”. Unfortunately, Mommy and Daddy were too distracted by other things so not much got accomplished. We’ll try again later.



Next, we finally reached 20 lbs so we finally met the state of Georgia requirements for turning a car seat forward facing. Here’s the before:

Here’s Mommy working on the install (notice the head on the console between the front seats!):

And the after:

Someone is very happy, and it’s not just Mommy!

And finally, some Daddy time pics. Since Jeremy has been gone 5 days a week the last 6 weeks, Claire has been going through some major withdrawal. Daddy is not allowed out of her site most of the time once he’s home so if Daddy wants to mow the yard…..


Yes, she is attempting to lay her head down to sleep on him! LOL! There's actually a pic of me doing the exact same thing to my dad at this age too so I'll have to see if I can get Mom to scan it for me so I can add it to the blog for comparison. =)

Dare-devil

So my 18 mo old has proven herself to be quite the daredevil of late. Here is a cute video of her doing the “big kid” slide at Kanga Zoom. I was actually surprised that she could even physically do it, much less that she was willing to do it without me going up with her much less that she would just take off across the place when my back was turned and start doing it without me even knowing she had started off. Crazy kid!

O-possum!!!!

So a few weeks ago, I was surprised to find that my garage had an uninvited guest……

… for those of you not native to North America or who have always been a city-dweller, YES!!, that’s an opossum! I am using my zoom lens to its fullest capability so no, I’m not really that close to a cornered, wild animal. I tried to shoo him out of the garage with a shovel but he would not go! So like any self-respecting suburbanite woman with no husband at home….I called Animal Control and took pictures so people would believe me!!

Corn!!! Mmmm, good!

Over this summer, Claire has learned to eat corn (one of her favorite veggies) while still on the cob. It’s been a really funny site to see, so of course, we’ve taken some pictures.

First try: 4th of July picnic at Stone Mtn

2nd try: Early Sept night when the weather finally cooled off enough to eat out on the front porch

Changes

So I mentioned before that there were some changes happening at Jeremy’s job. Well the changes ended up affecting Claire and I a lot more than I thought it would so I haven’t had a chance to post what happened. So the scoop is that Jeremy has moved from the PLM group at IBM to the Maximo group. Maximo is an asset management software tool. Some of you are thinking, ok so he’s just going to be consulting on a different software, what’s the big deal? Well the big deal is that everyone has assets and a lot of people need help managing them so it’s a software package that can be used by a lot more companies in a lot more industries than just manufacturing like PLM. So the big deal is: there is much greater potential for J to land a client in Atlanta and not have to be traveling out of state 4 days a week. And that is a change that we have been waiting FOUR years for already. So J just finished a 6 week training program to learn the new software and is now out on a 2 week shadowing assignment. Training was in DC and it was 5 days a week so it made for a very short weekend time, a frazzled mommy and a cranky kid. We are all happy to have Daddy back on his normal 4 day work week so we get him home for 3 days for more family/Daddy time. We’ll keep you posted on when he gets his new assignment. There is a slight possibility of getting Southern Co in Atlanta, so do keep us in your prayers.