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Today it is so hot here, like it is everywhere. I kind of wish we could sneak back into the condo and stay there until the hot weather is over :D. Celia went to play at daycare for a few hours this morning and I ran some errands unhurried. I looked at paint colors and took some swatches home for Number Two's room, and for the dining room. Our dining room is wallpapered and not our style.

These are for the baby's room. I think my favorites are the muted greens and blues. They would go with a lot, and would work for both a baby and an older child's room. A limey yellow would be fun too, and it's tempting to have a light babyish aqua color.

Every time I look at beige colors I'm overwhelmed. It's amazing how many different shades there are. I think I found a couple I like for the dining room.

After the paint I went on a mission to get potty training supplies. Yep, we're planning to potty train Celia soon. She shows a lot of signs that she's ready, and has for a while. We're using a method that's supposed to work very quickly. Hopefully it will...she can be quite strong-willed so I'm nervous. Oh, and I got a set of fake wedding rings for $2 so I can have something to wear in this hot weather when my rings don't fit. One of the fake diamonds already fell out of one of them- ha! Better than nothing. If I'm not wearing a ring I sometimes get dirty looks.  People are so nosy and rude... I've actually been asked who Celia's mother is when I'm out with her. So apparently I appear to be Celia's pregnant teenage babysitter. Not that it would be anyone's business even if I was...

I got Celia and we went home for lunch, and I put her down for a nap. She spent over an hour playing and talking with her stuffed animals and Little People in her bed. It was so hot that I was dreading how she would be with no nap. I was planning to go through all the potty training stuff I got, but I kind of just sat around listening to her yap away and finally went up to get her. I found her like this:

She was not sleeping. Or maybe she would have tried to if I hadn't come in. She proudly re-enacted for me how she got out of bed, lay on her pillow, and covered herself with the blanket. So, with no nap and the house around 90 degrees I decided we should get out somewhere to take advantage of AC and keep Celia entertained. She always does better if we go out when she hasn't had a nap. We had a snack at Panera and went to the bookstore so she could play in the kids' area. We read some books and Celia was quite smitten by a couple of potty-related books so I got them for her. I didn't really want more books in the house, but if they will get her interested I'll try anything. Then we went and got her some big girl underwear and a seat to fit on the adult toilet. She also rode one of those automated rides you put a couple quarters in, for the first time. She saw it on the way into Babies R Us and asked me what it was, and I figured we could try it. I thought it might scare her but she loved it.

 

I was planning to take a little more time to get myself ready for potty training, but when we got home today Celia wanted to try on a pair of underpants and she wouldn't take them off! We let her keep them on until bedtime, and she stayed dry the whole time. She sat on the potty once but didn't go. At bedtime she refused to wear a diaper. Uh oh. Luckily I did get some nighttime pull-ups today, so we told her they were big kid nighttime underpants and she was willing to wear them. I don't know what we would have done if I hadn't had those, because she would not have gone to bed in a diaper and it would have been a huge tantrum. I'm kind of hoping she'll forget about the big girl underpants by morning, and I can buy myself a little more time to prepare for potty training. Just in case, I have all her new underwear in the washer right now so it will be ready to wear...