The Daily Hailey

These are definitely my topics of the day! They’re not in order of events but I’m just gonna roll with it.

Flowers

In one row of our garden, we put in five sunflowers. They’re between our row of potatoes and in amongst some corn as well. I’m very sad to say that I pulled them out today 🙁 They never got a chance to flower, but they did have a significant go at suffocating the rest of my garden with their height. I’m sad that they’re gone, but I’d rather that than have my veggies not thrive. We’ve had one successful crop since living here, and two complete fails. I want this one to work! I have to say that sunflowers are beefy, though! I had no idea! Each one I pulled out was like three trees that I couldn’t actually close my hand around. They were way heftier than I expected them to be. C’est la vie. I have enough sunshine in my day without flowers.

Bath time.

Saturday is always a bath day. Today, the kids napped way earlier than usual, so we bathed them pretty quickly after they woke up. That way, Dekker still had all evening to play and basically recover instead of him having a traumatic bath experience and then going to bed ten minutes later. It worked out great! Brady has taken a new approach to bathing Dekker and has completely stopped pouring the water over his head. He just uses his hands and wipes the suds out forever until its as clean as its gonna get. This will not be able to be a forever thing at all, as we can never get his hair completely clean that way, but he didn’t cry during his bath. We want a few of those so he can get comfortable with the idea again. While they bathed, I took pictures of Laela in her pre-bath naked state. I know some people are incredibly offended by even baby bums, so I’m not sure if its ok to post them on here or not, but I’ll tell you this – there are little coconut oil bum prints all over my living room, and I LOVE it!!!  Once the boys were done, I went to get Dekker and bring him to his room to get all changed up. When I got to the bathroom, he had dismissed his towel and was ready to go naked. Dekker hates being naked, and I really want him to like it so that it doesn’t seem so strange to take his pants off to use the potty. Does that make sense? Good theory?? So I praised him up and we ran to his room together. Once we got there, he wanted to run back and see Laela get her bath, so we ran back with him still all naked. He really liked it! While we were in the bathroom, I asked him if he wanted to sit on the potty while he was there. He said no. I asked if he had to pee, and he looked up at me, and started peeing. It seemed to catch him off guard, so I right away said “Oh, thats great! Dekker has to pee!” and lifted him onto the toilet. Well. That was clearly not what he wanted, so he cried. But I picked him up and Brady and I reassured him that it was sooo ok that he accidentally peed on the floor, and that we’d figure it all out. He smiled into the mirror and said “Right!” So while he definitely did pee on the floor, I felt successful somehow. He really cheered up fast, which doesn’t always happen in foreign situations. Yay Dekker!!!

Vans.

Ugh. Stupid vans. So the engine light on our family van went on the other day, and we blamed it on needing an oil change. Brady changed the oil today and the light stayed on after he reset everything. I suggested he go for a drive and get things circulated, and then see. After a drive, the light did go off! However, if its just a flukey thing and it comes back on, we’re planning on going away over the long weekend. We certainly can’t go with engine trouble! So that sucks. Also, Bradys work van is having an issue as well. The back hatch won’t open. That seems like a trivial issue, but he has enormous tools to load in and out of that van everyday, and dragging them in through the side doors is brutal and incredibly difficult. He can run some tests to see if maybe its a wiring issue or needs a new part, but he can’t do any of that unless the hatch opens, and its really, really persistent. So thats pretty cool. Who drives vans anyway?!?!

The end. I’m sooo ready for a bath. I wasn’t hungry really at all today, and of course, now I am starving. Always at bedtime. So I’m hoping for something delicious to eat in the tub. Ideas welcome 🙂