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Motion 58

I have a confession to make. I've been recently blogging for another website. I wanted to tell you sooner but just couldn't find the right words. We met just a couple weeks ago and hit it off right away. But my hope is that you will understand and grow to love it too. Its name is Motion 58. I'd like to introduce you. Just look to the right of this screen. See it? I put a special link there. So come on over and see what's happening on the other side of our life. You can even subscribe if you fall in love too.

First Set of Wheels

I wish I could have captured the look on her face when she came around the corner to show us that she was riding her new tricycle. I think it was the most excited she's ever been in her entire life. Pure elation.

She was glued to the seat of that trike for the rest of the day, even sat on it in the bathroom as she brushed her teeth. And then it was a big disappointment when I told her the trike couldn't go with her into bed that night.

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Bathroom Humour Countdown

Besides the one major upside to toilet training, there are just a few drawbacks...

10. Grocery shopping seems to take twice a long when we have to trek to the other side of the store to find a bathroom, twice, and I forget which aisle we left off at, twice.

9. Two words shouted from the back seat, "Mama, pee!" sends our car careening across two lanes of traffic to catch the nearest exit off the highway, jumping out on the side of the road, freeing a panicked child from the carseat, shoving on her shoes (why is she wearing high-tops?!), and holding her over the muddy grass praying that she aims away from my feet.

8. Apparently the only thing that was ever holding up her pants was that big diaper bum. They don't seem to make pants in a size 2-diaperless.

7. Public restrooms. That's all I have to say on that one.

6. Peaceful nights of sleeping through the wet diapers turn into shouts of, "mama, pee!" and a toddler who thinks that because she is now out of her crib and on the toilet, it must be morning. At 10:00 pm.

5. How can the sudden urge to use the bathroom be timed so well with sitting down to the beginning of a delicious hot dinner?

4. Crying wolf. The phrase, "uh-oh, pee" is now being used to get out of certain situations. Where once we would jump at those words, now we have to discern whether it really is a full bladder or just nap procrastination.

3. The words "pee" "poo" "toilet" and "bathroom" now make up 90% of my daily vocabulary.

2. The toddler's urge to be an independent wiper coupled with frequently overestimating the number of squares needed, has caused our weekly toilet paper consumption to triple.

1. Most playgrounds don't come equipped with bathrooms. And no, I don't consider a port-a-potty a bathroom.

The Fort

She sits in her fort, colouring, reading, chatting away to herself. Content to live, just for a moment, away from us and in her own world. Only the tiny feet peeking out at us. And as we watch, our little girl seems to grow just a bit older.

Then and Now

October 2010

August 2011

Esmé is taking after her father and has grown to LOVE bikes. She is always pointing them out on the street and tries to steal other kids bikes at the park. We haven't got her one of her own yet, but I guess it's time! (Oh, and she also loves the helmet, which she occasionally wears around the house.)