Cold Out, Warm In

Chris is out to sea somewhere and the kids and I are doing our best to stay busy. And by ‘stay busy’ I mean ‘entertain ourselves at home.’ 

We’re pretty good at it. I need to wear glasses a lot more, it turns out, so the kids helped me pick some out. Then we built a train track. Then we built a train track. Then we built a train track. Then we built a train track. Then we built a train track. Then I realized the solution to my problem was nigh at hand—Isaac has had marginal interest in potty training. I haven’t worried about it. Then I asked him if he’d like to earn some more trains and tracks. We examined set after set on amazon. We set up a training chart, complete with train stickers 

We’ve had some limited success. Something is better than nothing at this point! 

Building train tracks is really the best thing that ever happened to January. Eloise loves to stagger her naps around Isaac’s so someone is always asleep at our house, making any outing loud and grumpy for all to hear. And the weather has been quite cold, so we’ve just embraced being indoors. And ordered some flexible wooden wacky tracks that will hopefully arrive before we go wacky ourselves. We do try to get out and run around anytime it’s above freezing and sunny. Good thing expectations are low in January. 

Eloise enjoyed tea with dad before he shipped out. I am lucky she’s so darn cute because she is sleeping worse than ever. She’s up four times most nights and still up an hour before Isaac wakes up…at which point she goes back to sleep. Or if she has an ok night, Isaac is sure to wake up THREE HOURS EARLY for no reason. 

Eloise’s recent tricks include GIGGLING. She always howls when I put her in her carseat, but yesterday for the first time I was able to tickle her out of crying. When she fusses I can ask Isaac to go play with her. His silly songs, dances, and general noise is just what she wants most of the time. She gets seriously grumpy if she doesn’t get enough peek-a-boo.