Overall another good day in our little corner of the world. We went to storytime at the library this morning, and it was better than it was the week before. Part of that is because there were closer to 20 kids rather than 30. Accalia also seemed pretty interested in the theme - dogs. She was especially happy when the children's librarian came over to her after crafts (folding a piece of paper to look like a dog face and decorating it) and asked her if she'd like to check out any of the books they read today. So Accalia went with her back into the meeting room and picked out a couple books.

I've started working on training Lucy using this book, which was given to us by the trainer we saw a couple weeks ago. This first week we're supposed to be keeping Lucy in a 30 minute down-stay position and a 10 minute sit position on alternate days. The authors describe how to physically place your dog in the positions, which is a big way to show your dominance over them. Now, anyone who knows Lucy may find it really hard to imagine her actually doing this, but we completed our first training day successfully! She didn't stay down the entire 30 minutes but didn't put up much of a fuss when I would put her back down. Small steps with that dog :)

Accalia fell asleep between 5:30 and 6:00 this evening and slept for 2-3 hours. She's still awake at this point, which is to be expected. While she was sleeping and Cory was with a client, I gave Cole a bath and read some East of Eden out loud to him. When I asked him if he wanted me to read that to him, he started bouncing up and down in the water and letting out little shrieks. And while I was reading, he just sat there listening to my voice and chewing on a bath toy. Very cute. Already knowledgeable of the Salinas Valley at the tender age of 10 months :)

Cole fell asleep shortly after that, so Cory and I started watching one of the DVDs I checked out from the library: "Maid In Manhattan." We haven't finished it yet since both kids woke up (Cole's nursing to sleep right now). It's entertaining but not the greatest romantic comedy I've ever seen. Somebody who worked on the movie is fairly smart about parenting experts, though, since there's a scene where J. Lo is reading an Alice Miller book on the bus.

Now I think I'll be trying to head to bed myself.