A pretty good couple of weeks round here. Major milestone was Sadie's accomplishment of a goal that has been four months in the making: getting potty trained at last (more or less). A whole week of dry pants got her a much-anticipated purple scooter that she has started to use a little inside, although she's still a little reluctant to use it outside.
Her reaction to achieving her promised reward has been beaming pride, mixed with moments of hesitation. The night after she got the scooter she woke up crying in the middle of the night, sobbing "take the scooter back, I don't want it anymore". She never explained why she said that, and had changed her mind by morning, but my interpretation was that she is finding the process of growing up to be a little stressful at times.
All in all, we've been quite busy. I had a fascinating but exhausting trip to Nigeria which I'll write about later. Karen has started medical classes which (I assume) she'll also write about. On the weekends, we have been sticking to our usual neighborhood routines like ballet as well as a couple of trips to museums (London Transport last week, British this week). We had dim sum with some ballet friends, Hunter, Jenny and Sophia -- and last night hosted our first dinner party with big Parker and some friends of his, Charlie and Shana (who live in the area and have a son little Parker's age).
Today we just got a bit of a curve ball with recent unwelcome news that Sadie's nursery is closing down after the summer. A part of life that we thought was settled has just become unsettled again.
No comments:
Post a Comment