good news

jameson's final, yes - i said FINAL, appointment at the neurology clinic at children's hospital was friday afternoon. yippee! he's been seizure free since coming off his meds in october 2008! dr. sprinkles (really, dr. o'connor - wonderful lady) says that most seizures will recur within 6 months of discontinuing medication. since it's been about that long, she feels he's "in the clear". we still need to keep emergency meds on hand for another 6-8 months or so, but she said she feels he's "graduated".

i can't express the relief i feel. phew.

we need to watch him closely, obviously, but this was really, really good news!

natalia-isms

random word translation:

"memenaide" = lemonade
"hop-a-roo" = kangaroo
"bite-a-mims" = vitamins

and, a cute story:

the kids and i were putting together a puzzle the other day and i said to natalia, "boy, jameson is pretty good at puzzles, huh natalia?"

she replied, "yeah, mommy, and i'm pretty too!"

burning ring of fire...

this wasn't the best take of her singing...she'd had just about enough of it. but, still cute, nonetheless. enjoy!

potty training

i'm going to say this very, very quietly so as not to jinx the situation...so, listen very carefully! :)

natalia has been in "big girl undies" during the day for two days - without any accidents! :)

we've tried on a few occasions to get her to potty train...she just wasn't interested at all. and, she didn't seem to get it. so, we waited.

on saturday morning, on a whim, i asked her if she wanted to wear her big-girl-dora-undies. she didn't scream and stomp in protest, so we tried it. we did what a friend suggested when we were potty training jameson and set the timer for every couple of minutes to "try" to go. she didn't pee for a couple hours of that...but then eventually did on the potty with no problems. then, she was playing in the living room while i was in the kitchen (jim and jameson were having guy-time outside)...suddenly she says, "i have to go poopies." and, marches her little self right to the bathroom. as i get there she's ready for me to put her on the throne. she squeezed out those little turds and was SO proud of herself! i was darn proud as well! :)

today went much the same (minus the poo...seems today was an off day?). no accidents or incidents to speak of. of course, we were quarantined to the house because i dare not take her out in public yet. i don't trust that she'll tell me when it really matters - like in the laundry detergent aisle of walmart. i'm sure not complaining, though! (it's cold out there again, anyway.)

man, i sure hope it's really this easy! ok, now shhhhhhhhh...and i'm going to knock on wood...

but, i have...

it's been so blasted cold here for the past two weeks. we all have cabin fever...and *i* get out of the house at least 5 days a week! the poor kids are going berzerk.

on saturday we needed to run some errands and shop for a few things. jim and i decided to separate the crack-monkeys - i took natalia with me.

she talks non.stop. so, on the way to the store, she's babbling about random nothingness and i say (mostly to myself), "MAN! it's COLD!"

she stops mid word and replies, "but MOMMY! i have my toat on! i NOT cold!"

me: "ok, i'm glad you're not cold. but we're in the car, when we get out it'll be very cold."

natalia: "but MOMMY! i have my hat on!"

me: "yes, and it's a very cute dora hat. good thing you have it!"

natalia: "but MOMMY! i have my mitzens on!"

i should know better, really. toat + hat + mitzens = NOT cold. brilliant!

bedtime?

me: natalia, are you almost ready for night-night?

natalia: um, no sank you.

hmmmm....this story doesn't bode well for mommy...

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