Posts Tagged ‘update’
It has been ages since I last posted to this blog. According to my looking through the past posts it appears like my past post was on May 24th. If you have read anything of this blog since, you can see that much has happened since then. I won’t bore anyone with the repeating of what you know has happened. Instead I will attempt to do an update on some of the things that haven’t been posted. Please do not think this is a complete list of other things that have occurred but it is some of them.
Currently when we’re out and about, Allyssa has two favorite games. They are both where you each take turns either counting or going through the alphabet. She now get bored counting somewhere in the mid to late thirties, but typically we will only count up to twenty and then switch sides. We will also switch sides when doing the alphabet and she knows them both very well. We are working with some flash cards, the only word she always recognizes right now is “ice cream” but she will go though the letters and the pictures of all the other flash cards easily.
Allyssa has unfortunately started trying to be a picky eater. Perhaps that’s the wrong way to put it, it would be more accurate to say that she often decides that she doesn’t want to eat when it’s meal time. She’ll say she’s not hungry then, but just after we leave the table she’ll want some sort of treat be it M&Ms or cookies, or whatever.
Eating isn’t the only thing that Allyssa can be stubborn about. She’s also that way about potty-training. Yes, we are currently working on potty training, but progress seems to be very slow. We have even purchased big girl panties for her but even that doesn’t seem to be incentive enough to try to remember to use the potty rather than go when- and wherever. When we are home she is on the potty for 15-30 minutes every hour, but she still seems to be able to go when she’s not on the potty. Sometimes I think she misses, because she is still sitting in the high chair because she hasn’t finished eating yet. But as much as I want her potty trained, she has to eat more than 2 or 3 bites of food for a meal. (Yes supper tonight was a bad night for her and eating. The sad part of that is what we had for supper was tacos and refried beans which normally she really likes. But not tonight apparently.)
Well those are my thoughts for the moment, I’ll try to post more again later. Promise not to hold your breath though.
Those of you close to us already know about this, but next week I will be moving the family back to Holmen, Wisconsin where we can be with family and the activities we enjoy. It has been an interesting journey to Minneapolis, Chicago and Kansas City, but I guess the old saying is true, “Home is where the heart is”. It took a while for me to realize it, but I just need to get back to a place where I can do the things I enjoy doing and be with my family.
I’d like to say there won’t be a lot of posts for a couple of weeks with packing and moving and settling in, but a lack of posts seems to be the norm for this site. So get ready for this blog to be normal! Maybe once we are back and we have things to share we will post more. Then again, we will be sharing those things with the very same people who read this blog, so we may not feel a need to update. Geez, what is a person to do?
Currently I am not working, nor is Laura, except to build up our new business venture. Hey, we already have nearly a dozen clients so things are looking up. We will be focusing on the area around La Crosse, WI in the coming months, so if you know someone who wants a cheap web site, send them on over to $150 Sites, OK?
No, don’t get excited, yet. This post isn’t about moving back to the La Crosse area. It has only to do with moving our blog yet again. I grew ever tired of Blogger constantly being down, and after using WordPress on a few other projects, have decided to install the software, add the plugins and themes I want, and run the thing on my own servers once again. With this move we also have a new look, though that may not stay forever – you know how fickle I can be.
With moving to a system that won’t be down when I want to post, maybe, just maybe we will update you more often. Of course, having Blogger be down when I wanted to post isn’t the only reason I haven’t posted anything lately. Mostly it’s because I am lazy – come on, you knew that already. Also, since leaving my full time job back in August (you knew that too) I find myself not wanting to be around the computer much during the day, and spending too much time with Allyssa.
I know, you can never spend too much time with your children, but when you don’t get your work done, you don’t get paid. And when the first of the month rolls around and you don’t have the income to pay the bills, you will understand what I mean by “spending too much time with Allyssa”.
The sad thing is that I don’t really spend too much time with her. I am spending too much time moving web sites around, playing with new software and trying new ways to generate income that I just don’t seem to get the work done. That’s going to change, which likely means not very many posts from me – but what’s new?
