Seriously?

Has it been 2 weeks already?  My goodness.  I've not been blogging much (spending too much time playing petville on facebook... crazy addictive games...).

So, last week my zone was the bathroom, so in keeping with that, my relaxing challenge was to soak in the tub (which I did on Saturday, haha).  I never did go swimming the week prior. We were going to go camping, but the weather didn't cooperate, so we planned to go to the local pool, but it was booked solid and packed (no good with two little kids), so it didn't happen.  Maybe during the week sometime later in the month.  It will have to be a weekday.  The pool is packed on weekends.  Anyway, this week (bedrooms this time) I challenge myself to go to bed earlier than 11pm.  Would seem easy enough... but funny how that is actually quite the challenge.

On another note, my potty training hasn't happened yet, although M is noticing when she needs to be changed much more so now.  I still have to ask her sometimes, but she stops, takes note if she does, then if so she says 'yes' and heads for the change table.  Or the potty.  She likes the potty.  Yesterday at my parents house she actually fell into the toilet, haha.  She was sitting fine, but I guess she moved backwards a bit, then 'splash'.  She wasn't too thrilled.  I'm sure that was some cold water! 

Today I spent some time and effort on the bedrooms.  Rearranging furniture!  Serious!  I moved a bookshelf in our room so we had room for the crib, took the crib out of M's room and set it up as a nursery in ours, then put her mattress on the floor for her to nap on (which she did great, by the way.  Stayed there until I got her up from her nap, too!  Crazy!).  I have her toddler bed washed and sanded, I just need to buy some primer and paint.  Maybe I'll finish that this week.  Oh, we moved the rocking chair into our room too, and placed a NON rocking chair (the one that was previously in our room) into her room... it's much safer in the long run.  It's fun to move furniture! 

Oh, another thing I'm proud of... I cleaned our old fan.  I moved it into our bedroom last night (yes, during the night, 4am, as Bram decided he was hungry and I was sick of having 'hot flashes' due to exhaustion).  I'm not sure what is up with me, but when I am over tired, I get extremely hot at night.  So, I found the fan and put it in our room.  Thing is, it was filthy.  So, after dusting our room, I pulled the thing apart and cleaned it.  Now it's black again.

I feel like a tired ticking time bomb.  Bram has been waking up at 4am every night for the last week... after having been sleeping 10-11 hours at night previously.  I don't feel like he's eating properly during the day, and am exhausted with these wake ups at night, not to mention the fact that I myself am getting overheated during the night and that is keeping me up as well.  I napped today with the kiddos.  Couldn't handle it.  I'm seriously dizzy, eating all the time (I eat when I'm tired... which isn't good), and I feel bloated and blah.  Then I look at the things I want to do yet, and freak... and go take a nap.  Hahaha.  Hopefully we will have him sleeping through the night now that he is in a crib which means more space for him instead of the cradle which he was quickly outgrowing... I can't believe he's 3 months already (I guess I haven't posted his 3mo pics yet, neither!  Or any pics for a long time, actually!).

Anyway, yawn, it's time to hit the hay!  Have a great week!

Challenge

I forgot to post last week... ah well.  Life has been busy and last week was no exception.  I only had one day where I was home all day.  Every other day I was out... either for the morning or all day long.  Which is fine, seeing as hubby is on the field.  All week.  This week too, it sounds like.  Although, I think I'll try to do a little less around town this week and spend a bit more time at home.  It is a scorcher.

That said, for the month of August, I figured I'd take a break from the challenges... that is, have 'restful' challenges.  The kids will be going back to school next month (for those of you with school aged children, that is), and summer just flies away so fast.  So, last week my challenge for myself was to do something hobby related again (I scrapbooked one page in my daughters first year album).  This week I challenge myself to go swimming.  I still want to finish some projects, so for the whole month of August, my challenge is to finish my firepit.  Modify that for yourself in whatever way you will.  If you have a large outdoor project to do, work on it... you don't have to finish my firepit (although I'd welcome the help, haha).

I have a lot of outdoor related things to do, as well one major indoor project.  What is that, you ask?  Repainting a toddler bed!  I wish to move my daughter into a 'big girl' bed shortly.  I may transition her to a mattress on the floor for starters, but I think it's time.  She slept on the couch at my parent's house like a big girl during her nap time, and there were no problems.  She didn't even get up until I came to her and 'gave her permission'... or so it seemed.  She goes upstairs herself when I say 'nap time' and heads right for her crib.  This way, she may go to bed all on her own.  Or not.  At least it will make potty training a bit easier later on this year.  I think I'll attempt that soon.  I'm still reluctant for some reason... so for now it is very laid back.  She sits on the potty and is rather proud of herself.  Last week on Monday she told me "I poop", so I placed her on the potty while getting her bath ready, and she pooped in the potty!  (well, sort of.  It was a tiny teeny little bitty bit, but it's still something).  She's been on the potty 4 times since then, just sitting.  On Saturday she sort of pooped again (I say sort of... it's more like wet farts... yuck...).  I'm thinking of attempting the 'training in a day' method given to me by a friend and a book I read a while ago, but I'm not ready to do that yet.  I think I want to make sure some other things are going to be easier for her first (like a bed she can climb in and out of herself), and give her a bit of time to get used to that before moving on to potty training (too many new things at once may NOT be such a good idea). 

So, what are your challenges for the month?

101 Update

Time for another 101 update. My list is getting larger and larger since I haven't actually been finishing all the things I want to... oops. Ah well, here were the things I wanted to work on in July... as well as the progress (or lack thereof). First, I'll just post the ones I DID manage to do... then the rest... which I hope to accomplish in August (or maybe work on... hmmm)

63. Level out yard - (July24) DONE!
Yippee! We ordered the dirt and hired a guy to do this with his awesome track skidsteer! No more ruts or ponds, yippee! And the firepit area is currently nothing... but it's all leveled off with dirt and a clean slate once again!

66. Grow a garden - I'm chalking this up as done.
After all, the flowers are growing, I just put some mulch in on the 31st, so it's doing well for itself! Now to get my daughter to stop picking the nice flowers... maybe I can teach her to pull weeds instead (hahaha).

95. Go to 3 different local festivals/fairs (2/3) - (July 30) DONE
On the 30th was the local fair. We didn't go to the museum like I hoped to, however. Ah well. Timing was off for us. But we enjoyed the petting zoo and went to the parade. M loved it... Bram was indifferent. Oh, and of course we had to enjoy a good old sausage burger outside the mall.

98. Go to an anime convention - (July 17) DONE
This was a fun one! I've wanted to go since I first heard of the convention, and we were able to go! I'll have to post pics eventually (I'm so behind in blogging). I dressed up as Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (one of Miyasaki's films... it's through Disney) since I couldn't fit into my Zelda costume (and didn't finish making it either). Some people had some fabulous costumes there! Oh, and I learned how to make onigiri and sushi (the temaki and ... the ones with nori on the outside... the rolled ones?). It was great! I hope to go again!

Now for the unfinished items...

9. Visit a museum - Sigh. Again, we missed out. I can not for the life of me figure out why we couldn't go. I think I'll have to force the issue next year. The kids would love it.

62. Fix fire pit area - It's been started. I'm hoping to get the rock for it tomorrow so I can finish it up this month. It WILL be finished by Sept 18 since I plan to have a bonfire then.

64. Remove dead trees from yard - It's on the "Honey DO" list. Now to get the 'Honey" to "DO".

71. Learn to play guitar - Didn't happen. Again. Sigh.

100. Get a massage - Again, didn't happen. I don't understand...

And now, for the new things I wish to do in August (along with all the unfinished ones above... crazy, I tell you).

95. Go to 3 different local festivals/fairs (3/3) - planning to go to one in the nearby town (we could bike there if we really wanted to... but probably won't unless we get a bike cart for both kiddos).