on tuesday, jamin was happily playing with matched socks on the floor. they were in a shallow laundry basket, one that jerry owned since before i knew him (so about 11 years). it has cracks in almost every side. i don’t know why, but i never thought about it being dangerous before. anyway, i was going to pick jamin up to nurse him, but the boys started squabbling a little beyond jamin, so i passed him up to break up their fight. jamin started screaming, and he’s been doing that lately when he thinks he’s being ignored, so i didn’t turn right away (bad mama). when i did turn, his poor sweet adorable arm was stuck in the laundry basket, and he was making it worse by trying to pull it out. 
i had to hold two sides and pull them opposite ways to get his arm out safely. he was SO upset, and so was i! i couldn’t believe it had happened. so now that dumb thing is not in his reach, until we can afford to replace it. :/ his arm is healing up just fine, btw.
josiah is doing AWESOME at his potty learning. there is no training going on, because i’m really not doing anything! he is calling the shots – i don’t even ask him when to go (well i do, but usually when he doesn’t need to, and he goes on his own.) he even stayed dry during nap. he was wearing training undies and he stayed dry. i’m so proud of him! he’s started going in the little potty that’s in the boys’ room at night as well. who knows, maybe he’ll wake up dry tomorrow. the boy was just READY. we are serious about trying to get them trained by the time they are three, and he’s almost got it down right now. say a prayer that he stays this proficient!
jeremiah has been going through such a horrible stage lately. he is so disrespectful, aggressive, angry and mean. some days he’s his old sweet self, but others, like today, i just don’t know who he is! it’s usually around the same time he gets growing pains, so i wonder if it’s little boy hormones or something. tonight he did something i was so shocked and disappointed about, i don’t even want to mention it. he stabbed joe in the back with a pencil. :*( he was mad at josiah because josiah bit off the pencil’s eraser. yeah, seriously. i am at a loss sometimes. :*( what am i doing wrong?
that’s it for now.
