While dinner was cooking, she accompanied me into our bedroom where we have several bags of clothes to donate to Goodwill. She asked me if the bags were garbage, and I launched into an explanation about how fortunate we are and how she has everything she could possibly want, but how there are some families and some kids that don't have clothes or food. She nodded knowingly. So then she started listing all sorts of other things as questions..."or a bed? or a house?" You get the point. This lead to us talking about how it is important for us to help other kids when we can by giving our time or lending a hand to make them feel better. Somehow we ended up back at things that some people don't have and we noted that it was cool that we have two cars but some people don't have any cars. Natalie looked very concerned and said, "But, mama, I don't have a car." Isn't she funny? No, no, you don't have a car Natalie. She made sure to define that "mama has a car and dada has a car, but I do not have a car." Silly goose.
I feel really strongly about making sure that both our kids understand generosity and the power of giving, and I have some ideas up my sleeve. More on that in the coming months...
In the meantime, our poor Ben. He ended up being one sick little guy. I think I had mentioned that the kids (and Eric) had been passing a cold around. Ben was the last one stricken, and the virus seemed to be weakening a little as it was passed on. Ben was actually acting the least sick. Until yesterday morning...when he woke up wheezing. I called the pediatrician, and of course they wanted to see him. Long story short, he has to have a nebulizer treatment 6 times a day for the next 5 days. He tolerates it fairly well, and by this afternoon he had stopped wheezing and his cough had loosened up a lot. Natalie has been a really big helper trying to hold the mask for him.
And, finally...a potty training update. I'm calling Nat officially potty trained. The only time she's been in a diaper in a week is for naps and bedtime. And she hasn't had an accident since Friday! She is telling me every time now when she needs to go, and twice today she went into the bathroom all by herself, went potty, and was able to pull her pants back up all on her own! Saturday we even went shopping and were out of the house probably 6 hours. We set up her potty in the back of the car, which she used twice, and I bought a small seat that folds up and fits into my purse for use on public toilet seats, and she tried to use that once too! I guess we'll try to go to gymnastics tomorrow without a diaper...I'm nervous, but it seems like a step backwards to put her in a diaper for those 45 minutes, though I don't think she would really mind.
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