Potty training update: We kept Charlie home for four days, then he went back to daycare on Tuesday. Overall he has the gist of it and we are very proud of him. The next thing we are working through is that he sometimes doesn’t want to stop playing, so he has accidents. We keep reminding ourselves that it has only been 10 days since we started and he has been 90% of the way there since day 4, and the remaining 10% will just take some time.
One thing we didn’t expect is how grumpy Charlie would be this week. Regularly being reminded at home and at daycare to stop and try to potty after being able to go anywhere and any time you want must be very frustrating. Any time we’ve tried to direct him or make a suggestion on anything, we’re met with a lot of resistance. I get it little man, it is tough being told what to do.
A Charlie highlight unrelated to potty from the week is that he is now comfortable going out and playing in the backyard while we are in the house (keeping a partial eye on him through the window). He is also climbing the rocks in the woods while we stand down on the path. He is getting a lot more independent!
We needed to get out and burn some energy Saturday afternoon, so Charlie rode his bike around Depew Park and then played at the playground. He loved it, especially stopping at the STOP signs and asking what the other ones meant. We are big into signs right now.
Lots of yard work on Saturday:
- Mowed the grass
- Trimmed the edges with the battery-powered weed eater. So nice to grab it and put a battery in vs messing around with gas and starter fluid.
- Planted the seeds we started in the garden beds. Honestly mediocre to poor seedlings, so we’ll see how they do.
- Direct sowed new seeds in certain spots.
- Added more dirt to the potatoes.
- Got out the hoses and hooked them up.
- Moved half of the dirt pile from the sandbox.
You can just get up and make garlic aioli whenever you want. It is delicious and no one will stop you.
I’m liking LLAMA3. I run it locally using https://ollama.com/ and interface with it on the command line. Not quite good enough to cancel my OpenAI subscription, but it is nice to have a fast free alternative.
I’d love to run this on my home server and put it behind a login so I can use it, but I don’t think the FreedomBox could handle it. I need to keep use cases like that in mind for future setups.
Now that summer is around the corner, time to start thinking about making another batch of falernum, orgeat, and allspice dram.
I have some recipes picked out, but need the time to make them. Perhaps one night this coming week.
Our friends Colin and Hayden had us over for dinner on Friday. It was nice to catch up with them. It is always nice when friends without kids have no qualms about having us over, knowing full well that kids are unpredictable.
Update to my first aid kits: I got these little containers on Amazon (stickers included!) and put together a set for my backpack, Amanda’s bag, the car, and the emergency box. Each includes:
- Advil
- Aspirin
- Tylenol
- Dayquil
- Allegra
- Pepto Bismol tablets
- Pepcid
- Gaviscon
Here is a photo I took before I finished putting them together and labeling.
Almost time to start making cold brew again. I still drink hot coffee in the mornings, but in the afternoons cold coffee is nice.
Have you noticed that Twitter basically stopped showing external links in the “For you” feed? What bullshit. Not my social web.
Speaking of, I’ve had all social apps off of my phone again for the last couple weeks. Only using them on my computer right now. Highly recommended.