Brenden has been a funny boy lately. Two weekends ago he was missing all his family and friends and kept asking for different people. We got to hang out with a few friends last week and make some new ones too.

We are working on finally potty training him. Because of the timing of our move, we kind of missed a window and had been waiting for it to open up again. I’m just not sure it’s going to naturally do that, so we are forging ahead. So far, it has been unsuccessful. He tells me he can’t try. He definitely gets the concept, just doesn’t want to take the time to do it. But we are working on it.

Part of the reason we are working on it is that I’m hoping he can get in to a preschool in the fall. He’s on the waiting list and I’m hoping I’ll hear soon. I looked really hard to find what I wanted— a two or three day a week program where he was actually learning some neat things—and a finally a friend told me about this school (thanks Kris). But all that is to say that if there is a spot for him then he has to be potty trained. Yikes. I promised myself I wouldn’t put that kind of pressure on the situation, but I don’t know where else to send him. I’m not ready for him to be gone all day everyday.

He’s really been enjoying the pool this summer. He sits on the pool steps and plays with one of the toys he’s brought out. We also push him around in his boat which he loves and has to have out there even if he doesn’t want to use it. Of course the heat the last few weeks has meant nothing to him and he doesn’t understand why I don’t want to go out in the hottest part of the day to play in dirt or to let him pretend to drive my car.

Today he’s been telling me that he needs to talk to me about something and then it’s about a treat that he wants or a movie he wants to watch.