livie has learned how to take pics hong kong (or asia) style...throwing up the peace sign any time a camera is pointed at her. i do not understand this trend, but okay...whatev.
kitty got in on our quiet day. i don't think he knew what to do with himself...he's accustomed to afternoon games when livie gets home. we did play mouse for a while, but he mostly lazed around and cat napped.
along with learning to go on the potty, q is learning other self care responsibilities, like washing his hands. being the creative kid he is, he deduced that he could use the step stool in front of the sink to add one more big boy task to his repertoire...turning on the bathroom light. of course, this turned into also turning on/off the water heater, fan, and hall lights. repeatedly.
today we woke to very grey skies and an eerie sound that i chalked off to some sort of construction noise. i can't even describe the sound...it sounded a little like a band saw, i guess. anyway, josh was putzing around on his computer when he suddenly announced that livie did not have school today because a T8 warning had been hoisted. from what we could see out our window, it didn't look too serious (but we have experience with livie's school closing for weather that seemed minor to us), so josh headed out to work. he came back about 15 minutes later saying the buses weren't running.
and so commenced a rather strange day. i always find it difficult to be home with the kids when josh is working from home simply b/c it is nearly impossible to keep them out of his business. normally, if he is working from home and i am not ill, i get the kids out so that there isn't so much conflict, but today that was impossible. we did get down to the playground for some wet, breezy play time, but the rest of the day we were stuck inside in the humidity. we still have not heard back from our landlord about when our a/c will be repaired, and though it is not really hot outside, it is very humid, so the apartment gets stuffy and uncomfortable very quickly.
one other HUGE note about today...for most of the morning, q wore his big boy underpants. he had one small accident, but otherwise did great. at one point in late morning, though, he whipped off his underwear and demanded a diaper. given our experiences with potty training livie (horrid), i will NOT be pushing this issue. we will go at q's pace and just hope he's out of diapers before college ;-p
oh, and that noise...it was caused by 40 mph winds whipping through the construction site next to us. the crews around here use this green netting to catch any debris that falls from the site, and the netting was what was making that strange sound. one of the benefits of living in a high rise building that is surrounded by dozens of other high rise buildings is that we basically have our own climate. the typhoon was really tearing up the tops of exposed buildings (there was debris all over the playground), but we were completely protected by all the buildings around us.
it is still very stormy tonight, and there is a reasonable chance livie will not have school again tomorrow. if there is a T3 or above hoisted, her school closes.
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