Weekending it

Sorry for my lack of posts last week. I know a lot of family look forward to the blog. Some weeks I just don't have time. Last week I was working on a deadline for another writing project and we were in the middle of Kip's big boy bed transition and by Wednesday night it felt like we had returned to the newborn days. I was having to lay in the bed with him for like 3 hours at 2 am while he rolled around and refused to sleep. It was feeling really awful but we didn't want to bail and have to start over.

Mandy came over Thursday night to lay down the law and had a whole plan to execute. But he slept that night and I'm not stating anything definitive at this moment, but things are going better.

This weekend we had blocked to do the 3-day potty training method but given the bed transition was not going well we decided to postpone. So we had a wide-open weekend.

On Friday night, Dan and I saw To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. My uncle got us tickets for Christmas and this was the first play both of us have seen on Broadway. It was really excellent. Ed Harris played Atticus Finch but we were both really impressed by the three actors that played the kids, Scout, Jem, and Dill. All three roles were played by adults and I thought that would be weird and hard to get around but they really carried the show so well and the viewer completely lost sight of the fact that they were not children.

On Saturday it rained all day. Torrential downpour. After Kip's nap, we all headed over to Staten Island Mall to get Shake Shack for lunch. Kip did so well at the restaurant and at the mall.

We let him pick a little toy at the Lego store for sleeping through the night and as an added motivator. We all got soaked trying to get back to the car and stopped by Target to get a new baby monitor for a better view of Kip's full bed and then headed back to Brooklyn.

Kippy has so much fun with Auntie Mandy. She lets him wrestle her and do headstands.

On Sunday we skipped church since we had planned on missing anyways for potty training. Sometimes I feel guilty for missing but there was a time in our lives when missing a Sunday was literally impossible because of the amount of commitments we had. To be honest, it was a great Sunday. Keeping to Kip's routine really does make a huge difference. So although we wish it wasn't that way, we can appreciate this point in our lives when we are not wedded to showing up every week. Service does not equal salvation and God does not take attendance.

The weather was dry on Sunday so Dan and I took Kip to the park. We got all our chores done before Kip was in bed and that made for a really nice relaxing evening.