family weekend

We had a great great great weekend. We really didn’t do much but spent a lot of family time together. It was really nice. Everyone was in a good mood and got along great. I love weekends like that. It is amazing how one little 3 year old can dictate the mood of the weekend. If she is being difficult it puts us on edge pretty fast. I know my good mood is still from Avery being potty trained. I just can’t tell you how proud I am of that little girl. She is amazing. It took us a long time to get there but once we did she never looked back. She was even pretty sick with a weeklong case of diarrhea. Poor thing. I felt so badly for her. Most of the week she had to go big potty 8 or 9 times a day. She did it though and for the most part did it in the potty. She has not had an accident in a few days and she can pretty much go all by herself. I don’t even have to remind her anymore. She will tell me/go no matter where we are. We have had to work on the hand washing part but that is the easy part. She knows the term “skid marks” hehehehehe it is very funny how she says it.

The below video clips of her jumping are pretty special too. For a kid with low muscle tone jumping is a huge milestone. She couldn’t jump until now. During the school year last year her class would have circle time and at the end they would sing a song that involved all the kids taking a turn jumping. Av would just sit there and not participate. She knew she couldn’t do it and so she would not try (she is so much like me, embarrassed to look silly in front of others so she does not try things she thinks she cannot do). Her wonderful teacher Miss Beth kept encouraging her and finally got her to go last (short attention span of kids meant they were not watching her) and try to jump holding onto her hands. She is now jumping and running and loves doing it. She tells you “watch me jump one more time.” Then she jumps and then tells you “watch me run.” She does this over and over. She is so proud of herself and it is cute.