Sept 7 -Ali

Well I guess I will start this as more of a review of our day instead of trying to be cool and inspiring;)

We had a beautiful lazy day, Izaac spend most of the day riding his bike around town and playing with Jalen. Cora slept off her fever and sickness, or tried to she is still pretty warm but she atlas kept down the tylenol I gave her before bed. I hope she recovers quickly, she is always our sweet sickly one. I wonder how we can boost her immune system. DeNai gave me some medicine for her sty that is in her eye and she said it should clear up in a day or so. I am grateful for DeNai and her willingness to help others.

I am thinking of attempting to potty train Preston. We are about out of diapers(I have a whole box in the trunk but inside we ran out) so I thought we may give this a try. I read about a method were you keep them naked from the waste down for 3 days except for naps and bedtime and it is supposed to help them notice what is happening and where we want to put the potty. They said underwear feels too much like diapers and it is too easy to just wet and then change them. So... my poor mother gets to have her house used in my experiment to potty train our smart, cunning, adorably frisky silly little boy. Wish us luck! I am not positive that potty training is the best idea really, it kind of seems like so much more work then just changing a diaper but I suppose he has to learn sometime and we have a week where we have nothing scheduled so we may as well try it out.

I am avoiding going to bed as I really have nowhere to sleep. Cora has taken over my bed but I don't want to sleep in her bed in the attic incase she needs me here. The couches are love seats and really too small to fit me. There is a futon that I may end up on but we shall see if I don't end up just snuggling next to the lil heater and try not to wake her.

I would like to start working out at 6am each morning but for some reason the kids seem to sense this and are always so needy in the night and usually some end up in my bed which means they wake up if I try to leave or they have left me so exhausted that I just don't want to get up in the morning as I have been up all night. It is probably just an excuse but it seems to be working until I realize that this belly just won't pack up and leave on its own and I should really get to work on something!

My plan is to get a key to the school gym weight room and do my workout there at 6am based on the bodybuilding website trainer thingy. I would like to have Aubrey join me or someone for accountability and comradibility (yes that is now a word). I need to talk to her first.

I want to be my best self for you and for me and I appreciate the end of January deadline that will hopefully help me to stop procrastinating and be the person I want to be and also to be super hot for when you come home.

I love you! you are my everything!,,, as are all the things we have created together, We have some pretty great little people in training on our hands and I am trying hard not to take away from their awesomeness but to help them let it shine.

Love your adoring wifey, Me!