We’re now in the middle of the third week of potty training and things are going fairly well. Eli is getting most of his wee’s and poo’s into the potty, and his night time nappy is dry in the morning. If he is running around naked, then he usually goes to the potty on his own when he needs to, and every now and again he actually tells us before he needs to go. We probably have about one to two accidents in a day, but mostly he manages to keep himself dry.

It feels like the main thing that he needs to learn is to be able to tell us when he needs to go. Once he has that skill he will be potty trained.

Grace and Eli have been sick, with Grace staying at home today. Poor little girl has been continuously coughing all day, and then went on to have a coughing fit when going to sleep tonight. Fortunately some nebuliser time helped her get to sleep.

These two do like to share…

Grace made a monkey swing over the weekend

Eli. climbing into Grace’s toy bin, with a backpack as well as a dolls blanket on his back (who knows why)

Eli loves going into Grace’s shoe cupboard and having the door closed. When Grace opens it up, he says, “More, more.” He just discovered he can get onto the next shelf too…

Some post bath cuddles with mama

Donné has been watching Masterchef, and has been coveting a digital food thermometer like the ones that they use. Her Mother’s Day gift was a digital food thermometer and today we tried to make some Italian meringue which requires measuring the temperature of a sugar syrup exactly. It also ideally requires a mixer, so we dusted off the very old Kenwood Chef that we happen have.

Egg whites in the mixer, and syrup bubbling away on the stove being measured until it got to exactly 121ºC. The syrup goes into the egg whites in a thin stream while the mixer does it’s job, and ta-da! Italian meringue….yummy. Still a bit of work to do on technique and timing to get the right consistency, but a very good result for the first time.

Donné iced a cake from a new recipe she was trying with the meringue