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I've decided to upgrade one of the kids to undies at childcare. Not because they've been making progress with toilet training, almost the opposite. A few days in a row last week he'd come hope with a sore bum that was so red, he was in so much pain and at times we wouldn't shower him because it would hurt too much. He has a habit of waiting for a fresh nappy to go to the toilet, then doesn't tell anyone. So at care he's going the maximum interval with a dirty nappy, and you combine that with the blueberries he's been eating and he's been having problems.

So I decided undies for him. He'll either be more mindful of going to the toilet or he won't be able to hide it. We've tried talking to him about letting someone know before or after he goes to the toilet but there have been too many repeat days of this and I don't want him to be in pain.

It's a long weekend here and we went to a blueberry farm as well because they have this dinosaur display. It sounds like an odd combo but 3 year olds love berries and they love dinosaurs to props to them for making that connection. He's going to be eating a lot of blueberries in the coming days so I'm not dealing with this for the next week and I know he doesn't want to either.

Sick this week, kid is sick, spouse is sick. I'm at a significant negative PTO balance right now, so I'm literally not allowed to take any time off, so I'm going in to work and making everyone else sick. sick. sick sick sick.

Little Beaver has been smirking and acting defiant whenever she misbehaves. It's clearly becoming a little game for her, and so we're discussing approaches to working towards discipline. She's still very young, and so doesn't understand very much at all about what we're saying. That results in a lot of situations where she's doing something unacceptable (sticking her hand in the toilet, climbing onto her table while she's eating), but we can't easily communicate what we want her to do... or not do.

Starting to warm up here so been trying to take the kids outside more. Really hate winter since there’s so little to do especially with kids.

Was cleaning out the pile of kids art we had lingering on the table, and K1 had a coloring page that was a large mandala flower, with a quote at the bottom that said "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. -- Ayn Rand".

I'm just glad this kid can't read. I wonder if because last week was "read across America" they just printed out a bunch of shit with quotes on it.