Last Week's Accomplishments, Next Weeks Goals

Here's a recap of my accomplishments last week:

    *Painting the girls bunkbed
    * painting our nightstands
   * Bronwyn's birthday dinner and cake and presents
   * Mirren's potty training begun
   * garden finished planting

    I ended up painting the bunk beds and nightstands in my kitchen, because it just made more sense. Luckily, knowing that I planned to start potty training on Thursday really pushed me to finish all my painting by mid afternoon Thursday. The only  casualty of painting indoors was Mirren who found a tiny puddle of paint that I hadn't cleaned up yet (I was busily cleaning my brush) and dipped her finger in it and then tasted it. Oh the face and the crying!! I don't blame her, yuck!! I wiped out her mouth a few times, brushed her teeth and she was good to go, no worse for wear.

Bronwyn's birthday was a bit of a crazy day what with potty training starting that day. I didn't have a whole lot of free time from finishing my painting, making her cake, trying to clean up the house so we could relax and enjoy our evening, keeping Mirren on the toilet and making things happen in the toilet, etc. BUT we got some decorations put up and she was feeling like a special girl. :) We sure love her! She makes life more fun and full of lots of energy and enthusiasm. She got her very first barbie and a barbie hair salon that has been getting lots of use. She likes to use the hair brush and the pretend scissors on her sisters. I'm definitely keeping any real scissors FAR from her reaches in case she should get any ideas. . . .

Day 4 of potty training today and things are going swimmingly. And totally as expected! She hates sitting on the toilet, loves the potty treats and is slowly becoming acclimated to the fact that her life is currently based on toilets. ;)  She loves the praise when she does her stuff. I've got the older girls bribed to cheer her on and Mirren just eats up all the attention and cheers! It's so fun to see her feeling so proud of herself.

Reed finally mowed our lawn for the first time since moving here and we finished planting the remainder of our garden. Aah! I love a good productive day outside. I love looking outside and taking pride in the work we've put in out there to make things look neat and well taken care of. 

Goals for the coming week:
    * I've been given the go-ahead to buy more paint!!! Woohoo!!  I think Reed is just anxious to get more moved in. I'm painting the master and the girls bedrooms very first so we can get some real beds and things put away in there and start really living here. If I have enough paint, I'll finish doing the hallway but I doubt I'll have enough to start the front room/kitchen area. I've been allotted 1 gallon of paint so I'll have to see how far I can make that stretch.

   *Gotta finish sanding the furniture I've painted and then putting a coat or two of poly on them so the paint is protected. And then we can set them up and use them! Woot!! I'll take pictures but I'm still having rotten luck with our computer and uploading so we shall see if I can put finished pictures up.

   *Potty training will continue. No more updates until we're further along unless you call me/message me that you want to know what's happening in that arena. We'll be in the trenches of potty training for a good 4-5 weeks and you won't want to hear about that. ;)  Trust me.