My 50th Post

I was going to title this something like "My First Connecticut Snow" or something goofy, but then I saw that I've done 49 posts, so I thought that I'd just make this a combination of randomness and get away with a generic title.

We woke up to snow on the ground. Finally! It took long enough for snow to arrive. It all melted away in about 2 hours, but at least the barren trees looked pretty for our drive to church.
We tried out the Anglican church again. Completely disorganized. Toby and Norah seemed to be the only kids in the nursery, being staffed by 3 high schoolers who looked like they had just rolled out of bed 5 minutes ago. We didn't even sign them in or anything. We remembered from our last visit to this church that all the parents go get their kids for communion. So when I went back to pick up the kids it was still just Toby and Norah and the 3 workers. Toby was eating a snack so I had to wait while he finished. The high schoolers didn't say a thing other than "They were fine." When we were walking back to the sanctuary I noticed Toby was walking funny. I look down and his jeans are totally soaked! He had an accident (he said he hid behind a chair) and didn't tell anyone and they didn't notice. They even fed him a snack while he was soaking wet! We got him changed and sat through the rest of service. Afterwards he took me back to the room to show me where he hid to pee. There was a little wet spot on the carpet but there were no towels within a hundred yards of this room (how weird). So we just left and I can't bring myself to feel too badly about leaving a pee spot on their rug. There were 3 kids in there! How did they not notice my kid had an accident?

Yesterday morning Norah got up earlier than Toby so we were snuggling in the quiet. This breaks the silence: "Hello? Is anybody awake?" (Toby yelling from his bed). He yelled this about 5 times before I went in to see why he wasn't coming out. He was just laying in his bed -- he had leaked through his Pull-Up all over his sheets and he wanted someone to change them.
Potty training is such a special time....

Norah has her 9 month check-up on Tuesday. Hopefully her pediatrician will be able to give me some guidance as to why she's not sleeping through the night anymore. Yesterday Norah started cruising--she pulled up to the coffee table and caught sight of Toby's slice of bread. She then walked all the way around the table to grab the bread and stuff it in her mouth. So maybe she's not sleeping well because she's not getting enough to eat or because she's growing and moving all the time during the day.