Potty Training

We attempted potty training with Jay and it lasted a day.  He had a lot of accidents.  In fact, he only used the potty once.  The next morning I tried to put him on the potty and he freaked out.  He started crying and throwing a tantrum so that was it for potty training.  The reason we tried potty training was he keeps trying to take his diaper off, he'll smear poop all over and he likes to pull his penis out of his diaper which makes him wet the bed.  I'm getting very tired of doing all of the laundry. 
Jay is saying a few more words now.  He does several animal noises and loves to blow kisses.  He goes to see his doctor in October for a speech development check up.  I don't know what will happen after that.  Jay seems to not have any other developmental delays and is a typical two-year-old.  He is becoming very independent and loves spending time with his friends at daycare.  (He still goes once a week when I don't work and we're not on "vacation".) 
I do work on Monday, but I'm not sure if I'm back for the season or if it's just for the day.  It's always up in the air.  Pretty soon I will be back on a more permanent basis, but still only a temporary employee.  I've enjoyed my time at home and love that I was able to take Jay and visit family.  I'm sure I'll be able to do that same thing again fairly soon!

Long Time

So it's been a long time since I've blogged here. I apologize.  I've had computer issues and just received my new laptop yesterday.  I was also working 40+ hours a week (barring any previous engagements) and am currently on a temporary layoff until things pick back up.  I did make a lateral move at work where I now make all the solutions each department uses so I'll work longer than most of the seasonal workers.  I've been off for almost two weeks now.
In that time off, Jay and I visited Mom and Dad for a little more than a week.  We visited Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs, a couple of my high school friends and Jay's cousins were up a couple of times.  He had such a fun time with them!

 

 

In fact, here's Allegra talking to "Gampa Don".  One of the times she was playing with that phone without Jay wanting to play with it too.  There was also swimming, mooing at cows and car rides.  We did stay in Olin for a few days, but Jay was fighting a cold/croup so he was a stink-butt the whole time.  We got to help Grandpa John mow hay and I think Jay can't wait to be able to drive the tractor himself.  There were so many levers and buttons!

I worked at the State fair again this year and had just as much fun as last year.  The showing schedule was changed up this year giving us dairy clerks a little more down time.  Luckily for me, I was allowed to leave early the one evening so I could take care of the sinus migraine I was getting.  We did a family day the second Saturday of the fair.  Jay and I went down the Giant Slide and despite his reluctance at first, Jay loved it!  He wanted to go again.  He'll have to wait until next year!

Jason has been busy since the students are back.  He says it's almost impossible to get anywhere on campus with the increase of students this year. 

Jay has been having a great time at daycare.  He is really good there and is very helpful.  He has some listening issues, not that it's a big surprise.  He is two.  His daycare provider has said he is very empathic when the other kids don't feel good and will go comfort them.  He's also very good at giving hugs and has started giving kisses.  He isn't really talking, but he does quite a few animal noises if you ask him to. 

Now we are just waiting patiently for fall.  I'm trying to get our clutter taken care of along with getting the house ready for winter. Hopefully  I'll get to this blog a little more often now that I have a computer!

So Much

I didn't realize I hadn't blogged at all in May.  We had one major event.  Jay turned two and boy oh boy do we know it!  He has fits at the drop of a hat which is doubly bad since he doesn't talk and we don't really know why he's having a fit.  He doesn't like having his haircut at all but he loves being read to.  He's also quite the dancer!  Jay is pretty good the majority of the time, especially at daycare.  He had one bad day a few weeks ago, but it seems it was just the one day.  (Miss Marcia, the daycare person, had said all of the kids were out of sorts that day and they had just gotten two puppies the week before.  I didn't envy her at all!)

Enjoying our birthday supper!

Mmmm....nachos!

Happy birthday apple cake!

I have started back at work and have actually put in some full days.  I haven't put in a full work week, but hopefully that will change with this next week.  My section lead is on vacation until mid-July, so I am temporary lead while she is gone.  (Originally, we were told the busy season would be over by the end of June.  They were wrong on that one!)

We've been dealing with rain on and off for several months now. Our back yard is nothing but a swamp right now.  Jay loves playing in the yard because of all the mud though!  He also loves drawing with his sidewalk chalk on the driveway.  He's very possessive of his chalk and he and I went to Fareway with it.  The checkout lady was very nice and was able to get him to put his chalk in a small brown bag.  He likes to play outside, so possession of his chalk is a minor obstacle.

I've started running.  Yesterday I ran 2.8 miles.  I'm trying to work up to 3.1 miles so I will be able to run the 5K Color Run in Des Moines.  I've been running at Ada Hayden park so I've gotten some small hills to deal with as well.  Jason walks with Jay while I run and they have a pretty good time.  The first time we went Jay had to stop and play in all the water puddles, watch every car and person go by and look at every flower.  They didn't get very far.  The second time they went around the small loop, but it took some effort to concentrate on walking.

I'll have to try to keep up on this blog better.  Time has just been flying lately