Bodily functions

Nina and I went potty shopping this afternoon - very exciting for her. She sat (clothed, don't worry) on the potty in the store, yelling, "Nina pee-pee potty! Nina big girl!" I'm not sure she understands what it all means, but that's ok. The idea is just to have a potty for her to play around with, not any actual plan of attack for potty training. She likes to throw toilet paper in the toilet and then flush - "Bye bye wa-wa." And then announce to everyone what I've been doing - "Mama potty." We're so proud.

While in the baby store, she also had to test out all their cribs. "Nina sleeping!" I put her in, and covered her with a blanket, and pretended to put her to bed. Then I would walk away, at which point she would pop up and shout, "NO SLEEPING NINA." Then we would move on to the next crib and do it all again. There were a lot of cribs on display. I was sure they were watching us on the security cameras and coming to boot us from the store before we destroyed all their merchandise.

A small bird has nested in a flowerbox that hangs over our driveway! I discovered this when I took something off the box that was covering it, and the agitated bird came flying out. I thought at first it was a bat (eek - yet another weird bit of nature to torture us), but then I saw the nest. At that point the mama bird was up in a tree shrieking at me. I replaced the cover and backed away. Later I peeked in and to my relief she had come back - I was only worried I had scared her off for good, or left my scent, and then we'd be responsible for yet another baby animal tragedy. Ugh. But now we have to monitor these birds and hope they don't decide to take a tumble onto the driveway - yikes.

Here's what we're doing tomorrow!!