A miraculous week

This week was so wonderful for the following reasons:

• Monday I was complaining about putting Eleyna to sleep, but this week was so wonderful. We decided to put her to bed at 7:00 to hopefully reduce the 5:00 whine-fest, and she was so much better. Plus Evelyn was an angel and slept with her, so we didn't have to lay with her to get her to fall asleep, and she stayed in her bed THREE TIMES all night!!!! Hooray! I feel so well rested. Who would ever have thought we'd reach the point of all three kids in their bed all night long? Well, at least for 3 nights anyway. There's no guarantee for the future.


• Evelyn has been pretty hard lately, but Friday she woke up a whole new girl with the bribe of ice cream for a day of no time-outs. She was SO wonderful- she helped whenever I asked plus when I didn't ask, she nicely reminded Eleyna to be good, which means she didn't start any fights, and she was just so pleasant.


• Eli has learned so many words this week, it's nuts:Ball ("Bah"), Eleyna ("Neyna"), play, ("pay"), uh-oh, again, ("gee"), hug, amen (after he covers his eyes for prayers, so cute), Look, a book and he still says "Eat" ALL THE TIME! Tonight he ate two pieces of pizza! He eats an adult-sized portion of oatmeal for breakfast, and 30 minutes later he'll come up to me begging to eat. He's started singing along with songs on the TV or that we sing to him, and tonight he did a really fancy booty shake to the rhythm of our toy keyboard. He's crazy about music.


• We went to the park three times this week with different friends, and it was so fun. (Even though it was 80 degrees on Monday and snowed the next day! That's insane.)


• I have spinach, beets, peas, and onions coming up in my garden, despite the nearly weekly snowstorms. I planted an entire 4x4 garden box of peas, and they are about 3 inches now. It's such a wonderful feeling to see plants grow. I hope the peas survive, because I sure didn't have good luck with them last year.


• Our basement is nearly done, and we have all of our stuff moved back in. We won't be totally settled for awhile because we still have a room and a hall that needs to be fixed since the drywall job looks really sloppy. However I spent all day long putting our toy room back together, and the kids are in heaven. At least for a few days until everything becomes boring again.