Month: November 2008

… but pictures I can do! Cooper at the Siesta Key beach on Thanksgiving day… Kenny with his big cousin Ryan… The “daughters-in-law” cleaning the carnage from the Thanksgiving feast, and  looking sassy… Cooper, out to breakfast and holding court… Kenny, proving that a 65 degree day is still a beach day… … and Casey…

Battle one: to eliminate Kenny’s growing obsession with getting to watch TV every day.   Call?   Victory!   We just completed 11 days of no TV watching, and we celebrated by letting Kenny watch  an episode of Boz while I was busy with Cooper.   Though it took several days of him still begging…

Kenny.   My sweet negotiator.   Relentless in his pursuit of winning his way. I used to let him watch TV (or more accurately a DVD) three or four times a week for no more than 30 minutes, usually while I made dinner.   Then we had Cooper.   I didn’t increase the  length so…

I don’t know if I mentioned this in all the chaos for our MommyBlog family in the last two months, but Kenny is completely potty trained.   Finally!   I happened in about two days during all the packing madness – I don’t know if he was looking for some positive attention or what, but…

Ok, so as soon as I wrote about Cooper not being a good napper, but being a great nighttime sleeper, he decided to show off and have TWO totally sleepless nights in a row. Not entirely his fault, to be fair.   For one, Casey was out of town, which means that Dudley turns psychotically…