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Originally uploaded by Driggs family

Lots and lots of them. No titles, tags, or descriptions, but definitely pictures. I'll probably get them labeled over the next week or so, so watch this space, I guess.

I miss Emersen.

Her due date was a year ago last Thursday, and I'm lonely for her.  That's all, I guess.

Secrets of potty training...

So you remember how I was all confused about how to get Elspeth to night time potty train?  Well the answer it turned out was simple... cloth trainers.  I just left her cloth trainers on her and VOILA, clean and dry every morning for THREE DAYS!  I guess she just figured that she was wearing a diaper, and diapers are for peeing in, so she peed.  But trainers are for keeping dry, so now she goes potty.

As a side note on cloth trainers, we are liking the cheap Gerber ones we got at Walmart.  They feel more like underwear, we guess.  They are also cheap, which is a winning quality all on its own.  But we also have a couple of Imse Vimse cloth trainers, and if you have the money for them they are FANTASTIC.  They have a layer of waterproofing in the outside, so they have to be mightily full to leak, and the inside is terry cloth so they hold a goodly bit.

Maybe she's going to potty train after all...

Suddenly Elspeth is dry all day long.  O_O  And I didn't have to bribe her or anything!  We do still have occasional accidents (like yesterday on the tennis court), but mostly only when we're out and about and she's really distracted.  Now if only I could figure out what I'm supposed to do to get her to night-time train, we would be set.

Moving still blows

But it blows slightly less once you reach the point where the old place is completely empty and clean and ready for the inspection.  We are living in a box forest and I have no idea where Rouena's clothes are, but hey, at least we are OUT, even if we aren't in yet.

Moving BLOWS

We are packing up and getting ready to move into the new place, and it is not fun at all.  Especially the part where I just had a baby seven weeks ago, and only found out we had to move when she was two-three weeks old.  We get the keys on the twenty eighth!  We have to be out of the old place by the thirty first though, so we are packing as quickly as we can.  Or at least I am.  Mark is taking Calculus, so this move is kind of the Kim Show.

I just found the best charity EVER

Heifer International!  They don't just give food or whatever, they give livestock and training to care for them -- so your $120, say, doesn't just give a family food for a little while, but milk for the next ten years, PLUS income from selling extra PLUS the animal's offspring.  And, well, I'm broke, but I figured that they might like free publicity, so I'm telling everybody about them.  So there you go.