Friday

Tonight is date night, and by “date night,” I mean frozen pizza and Anchorman 2 night! Tomorrow night we will be watching the Final Four and I’ve been told the Brewer’s play as well…. Let it be known, I like the Reds, not the Brewers. I will say that I absolutely love the Brewer’s newest member Hank. The story of Hank the dog is great. Do you know what is better than the story of Hank?

This picture of Hank on opening day. HA!

This one is pretty good too. LOLOLOL!

 

We watched Wolf of Wall Street earlier this week. I hated it. Over-the-top drug use and crazy scenes had me over it. I’m no prude, but gross. Two thumbs down.

 

That's pretty much it today.

Float on…

Rambling

Good morning. Friday is creeping in. Yes! Potty training is still a work in progress. Char is having some accidents, but more successes at this point. There was a transition process going from home to daycare this week. She's a trooper. The pure excitement and pride she feels when she does her business is amazing to see as a parent. I hope her life is filled with such prideful moments.

Last weekend we were confined to the house to really focus on the training and this weekend she gets to go back to swim lessons and to a friend's birthday party at the local gymnastics center. Her best pals from daycare will all be there. Should be fun to watch.

This is a completely random thought here, but you know what would be phenomenal? Having fresh sheets put on your bed every. single. day. I'm convinced that there is no greater luxury in the world than fresh smelling, cool crisp sheets.

Oh, and if you wanted to know how cool I am these days, just know this, I am the chick cruising around with the "Do You Know the Muffin Man" and the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song blasting out the stero and the Elmo potty chair riding shotgun.

That's how I roll. Float on...

We survived the potty training weekend.

Baseball is back! I have a feeling it's going to be a great year for my Cincinnati Reds. I'm going to go as far as to say it will be a playoff year! It was a great March Madness weekend. UCONN and Wisconsin have surprised me. I'm done for in all of my brackets. It's been a great year for the tournament, but a less than great year for bracket predicting.

The potty training weekend was alright! Charleigh handled it better than we did! Ha! She’s such a good girl. You have to remember we did this all cold turkey. We just stopped putting diapers on after talking about it with her all last week. We kept telling her, "Charleigh, on Saturday no more diapers!" 

Day 1 (Saturday) was as to be expected. Lots of accidents. Lots of talks about the potty and what goes in the potty. The immature side of me had to refrain from giggling when discussing bodily functions… : ) We didn't take her out of the house at all. I had stocked up on cleaning supplies, disposable pads to lay on the floor, and we rolled up the carpet. Day 2 (Sunday) was much, MUCH better. She only had 2 accidents on Sunday compared to 10 on Saturday!

She colored on the potty, ate on the potty, read books on the potty... pretty much anything to keep her on the potty. She is wearing a pull up at nap time and bedtime and going around naked as much as possible. Fast forward to today - she isn't sitting on the potty as much and just going over to it when she has to go. That is the tricky part - her knowing that she has to go and getting to the potty. 

Her teacher at daycare is helping her with all of this too. On Monday, Charleigh was home with Greg in the morning and then went to school for a few hours. She had one accident and one success while there. Today is the big day. She is at daycare ALL day. Even though they have a little potty at school, we sent her with her Elmo potty yesterday and today to help with the transition. She has 10 pairs of pants packed, along with about 100 pairs of Superhero "underwears." Hahaha.

To be honest I kind of feel like a nervous wreck worrying if she will tell them when she has to go or will she walk over to potty by herself? Will she tell someone if she has an accident or will she wait until the teacher notices? Is she ready? Is she nervous? Will they remember to give her her M&Ms if she successfully goes on the potty? Will being at daycare and not at home set her back? Will they do the pee pee dance for her? Will I ever stop worrying?

GOOD LORD! I AM EXHAUSTED! She is a smart, smart girl. She is learning so fast. We know she can do this and we know this is the right time for her.

Float on...

Friday

Happy Friday all. Look at me on a blogging roll. We are gearing up for the big potty training weekend. We got our M&M rewards and our Batgirl underwear ready to go! Lol. Sigh. If 22-year-old Meg could see me now ; )

March Madness resumed last night with the start of the Sweet 16. Tennessee plays tonight, which is very exciting for a Tennessean. UC lost in the first round, so I’m clinging to my roots and cheering on my Vols. Kentucky also plays tonight and Rod is a HUGE fan. His whole family watches every single game. I wondering if I will be able to hear them all cheering out here in Maryland? Ha!

I have to share this internet video that has been floating around. Never in my life have I seen something so touching. I cried. This honestly moved me to tears. What a brave woman with wonderfully sweet friends surrounding her. Here is a link to the video. The page has an article about the women and the video is all the way down at the bottom. I don't know if I would have the guts to do the same for a friend. I like to think that I would.

 

Float on...

Update!

I’ve missed my little space of the internet here. I haven’t had the urge to over share in a while, plus after blabbing on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, most of y’all know what I’m up to. But in case you don’t here is an update -

Greg and I have been working a lot. I still thoroughly love my job. It is a good feeling to know you are where you belong. Greg's been managing several projects and is completely sick of this long drawn out weekend like most of us, especially when he has to go outside in this weather. Did you know we got more snow on Tuesday?! I'm hoping that is the last time we see snow until next winter.

Charleigh is Charleigh, which means awesome. She loves to color with colored pencils. Loves movies about Mermaids.  Adores swim lessons on Saturday. Talks up a storm and calls everyone at daycare her “friends.” She likes to point to characters in her books and say they are people from daycare. She has her special friend Nico, who she also takes swim lessons and gymnastics with. His parents are very nice and we like going out to breakfast with them all after swim on Saturdays. Charleigh is like any 2-year-old and knows how to test us. She knows right from wrong and can be a pistol at times, but overall she is a sweet, loving little ball of energy.

We are attempting potty training this weekend. Eek! She has shown signs that she is ready, so we are going for it. We are using the 3-day-method. You can read about it here. Char does pick up on things quickly and we are hoping that holds true with this obstacle. She is 2 years and 2 months.

 

 

Here she is last night picking out her big girl "underwears." (as she calls them) She was very excited and went with the princess pack, of course, and surprised us with the female super hero pack. HA! She is our little Wonder Woman.

 

Heading to Cincinnati in May. Our college roommate Steve is getting married. Our whole college gang will reunite for one night of debauchery. Watch out Troy, Ohio ; ) Also we can't wait to see Gramma!

 

Float on...

I interrupt this blog hiatus...

So yes, it's been awhile. I've been busy sucking at March Madness brackets and burning blueberry muffins for my kid while simultaneously forgetting to brush my teeth before I leave for work ; ) But I interrupt this blog hiatus to say one thing...

Have you ever noticed how there are all these wonderful sounding flavors of tea like "pomegranate superfruit" or "strawberry sleepy time dream," but then you get to a random flavor called "Earl Grey..." Pardon moi? Who the hell drinks tea that taste like earl or grey for that matter? Tea is the absolute worst. It taste like someone boiled water and threw some grass from their front yard in it. I remember getting sick as a child and my mom insisting on me drinking hot tea. I'd take a half of a sip and quietly vow to never again fall for her tricks. "But Meg, this will definitely make you feel better." Lies I tell you! Lies mom!

Also Ali, check out the brand name of that tea!

Lastly, the real reason for breaking my silence today is to say happy birthday to my butt head of a brother. He's actually not half bad, in fact, I kind of like him. Well, I'll tolerate him anyway. Happy 32nd Zach! Remember when you got stuck in that tree?

Float on...

Thursday

Hi. It's me again. Much like everyone else, I found the Super Bowl boring and the commercials mediocre at best. I did try a new recipe though. I attempted to make fried mozerella bites. Although I hail from the South, the land of fried everything, I have never fried a thing so I had no idea what I was doing. It turns out all you do is roll some fresh mozerella in flour, then eggs, then bread crumbs, and drop them in hot oil for 2-3 minutes. Genius.

Taa dah! They were good, but not great. I think I needed some fresh herbs to help the flavor.

 

Next weekend is my favorite weekend of the year, Friday is Valentine's and Monday is my birthday. A birthday on Monday? I must have drawn the short straw or something. Greg and I have already mapped out a plan of action to celebrate the day of love and the celebration of my birth - We are watching all the Godfather movies from the start and making fondue. Romance people. Pure romance.

Float on...