hi all - 08/16

Well, it sure has been an interesting week! The kids are slowly... very slowly... getting back into the swing of things here, without Nana and Papa to (spoil!) give them lots of love! The worst of it has been that Ruth and Zech are fighting much more than they ever did before. But I think that will improve as we get back into doing things next month and get seeing other kids more often.
We are sort of starting potty training with Zech. It's going slow, but we're also not pushing it much. We're just using pull ups for now, as they seem to be working for him, and encouraging him (with jelly beans) to keep the pull up dry. He still hasn't pooped in the toilet... something to do with pooping and fireworks and falling in the water??? But we're hoping to be able to kinda catch him and get him doing that. In the meantime, pull ups make cleaning that up much easier.
Isaac's working on a bunch of teeth. He's got 2 nearly all the way cut through on the top right, one on the top left, and his bottom molars are right there starting to come through too. Poor kid!He's fairly happy, though, just chewing and drooling up a storm!
I got the kids registered for fall swimming lessons again!! I'm very excited to see them go again, because of how much they enjoyed it last spring. I can't wait! We'll be going on Saturday again, because Zech still needs someone in the water with him, though next session he should be starting all by himself. I'm pretty sure (though I need to double check) that dance registration is at the end of this month. I'm really hoping to be able to get both Ruth and Zech into class, separately, which I think would have to be Monday or Tuesdays. I'm hoping it'll work because I know Ruthie definitely wants to go again, and I know Zech would love to be able to dance, too.
And, I've been sick with mastitis for... well, basically this whole week so far. :o/ Monday I had pain, but hoped that it was nothing. Tuesday I woke up in a lot of pain and feeling very sick. We went to the walk-in in town (our family Dr was on at walk-in! Lucky for me!), got a script for antibiotics. By the time I'd seen the Dr, I was done. I laid in the van while Josh got the meds and we headed for home. I think I slept most of the way home. Slept most of the rest of the day, was up for an hour or so in the evening, back to bed for the night. I had to take 2 advil every 4 hours that day, and yesterday as well. Yesterday I was still tired and sore, but was able to get up late in the morning and sit on the couch. Still couldn't really walk around or do anything, but I was at least out in the living room with everyone. This morning I'm up, feeling much better, haven't even taken any advil yet! Hopefully I'm over the worst of it.
And that's about it for us for now!