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I’m pretty sure my tweet from earlier explains everything. 
RYAN JUST WENT PEE-PEE IN THE POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m definitely not a fan of all caps or more than three exclamation points, so you know this has me excited. And why wouldn’t it? Ryan is going to be four in less than five months. I didn’t expect him to be potty-trained before three (like Alyssa was, at 35 months!), given the fact that he is both a boy and autistic, but by the time three and a half rolled around, it’s like, okay, time to work on the potty! We’ve spent months talking about the potty, and sitting Ryan on it, but he never seemed to take it seriously or have more than a passing interest in it.
Until today. For what felt like the 1000th time this month (and yes, I am aware that today is the first of the month. THAT’S HOW BAD IT IS.) Ryan complained about the fit of his [cloth] diaper. For the 1001th time this month, I checked to make sure that it wasn’t wet, and adjusted the velcro straps in the front. For the 1002nd time this month I suggested to Ryan that he go pee-pee in the potty, so that he could be a big boy and not have to wear diapers. Imagine my surprise when he said, “Okay!” and ran to the bathroom. I sat in there with him for ten minutes or so, all the while giving him potty pep talks and even offering to take him to Target and buy him a toy. And he went! He was so proud of himself, literally beaming with pride as I exclaimed his name and told him what a good boy he was, how awesome he was, what a good job he did, etc. Alyssa came in and we were both making a HUGE deal out of it, whistling, clapping, chanting “Yay Ryan!”, etc.
And then I took him to Target — in a pair of underwear (and clothes, haha) — so he could pick out his toy. and while he was there he went again!
Man, words cannot describe how much I hope that this is IT. Between my brothers, Alyssa, and now Ryan, I have been doing diaper changes for fifteen years. I’m ready to retire from it!
Right now I’m hanging out at the kitchen table, since it gives me a large workspace that is more than adequate for working on my laptop while I install Windows 7 on Dan’s laptop. He’s had Windows 7 for nearly a year, but it’s the release candidate version, which will start shutting down every two hours as of March 1st (holy crap, is that really just a day away?). I’m also drinking a slightly lumpy protein shake, but I don’t mind the lumps, since it’s an Inspire Pure whey protein isolate drink. It isn’t drop-dead delicious or anything to write home about, but compared to the other protein mixes I’ve tried, it’s definitely appealing. This one is peanut butter cookie flavored; my favorite of the bunch (I ordered a sample pack from bariatric eating.com) is most definitely the pom razz sangria — I could seriously add a small splash of vodka to that bad boy and really enjoy myself. 
Thanks to these shakes, I’m not only hitting my daily protein goals, I’m exceeding them. I’m hoping that in a week or so I’ll notice a reduction in the amount of hair I’m losing every day, or at least an increase in energy. With my new full-time job, I’m going to need it!
The extra protein is helping my weight loss, that’s for sure. 230.4 yesterday, 230.2 today. Here’s to hoping I hit 229 lbs. on Monday. That would be awesome! But in the meantime, wearing size 18 jeans and size 18/20 tops is good enough for me. :heart:
So, who has plans for the rest of the weekend? Not me! Although Dan did put the new brake pads on my car today, so I’m not exactly trapped like a rat in the house any more… but I can’t think of anything we need, and I’m certainly not going to run out and do any frivolous spending (as fun as it is to do…). And being trapped in the car with Alyssa and Ryan, who both insist on Mommying me to death every .2 seconds? No thank you! However, I do plan on going to Panera Bread tomorrow night to do some major blogging across a few different blogs (and not just my own!); but depending on how much I get done tonight, that may not be necessary.
Well, I’m going to get back to chugging down the rest of this bland, lumpy, slightly-peanut-buttery-tasting protein drink (man I miss the days of gulping down 4-8 ounces of liquid in one shot! If I do that now I’ll violently vomit it all back up. And yes, I do speak from experience!), and then it’s off to bloggity-blog-land for me. Oh, and maybe some Skyping with my brother-in-law’s girlfriend? That would be fun! *goes to look for headset*
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