Mar. 31, 2008

Your Adamism of the Day: "That trash can must be 3 years old because I'm taller than it!" Also, Adam was convinced he was 4 all this week and there was no arguing with him.

7:40 A very late drop off. I had already been up for an hour, cooked a batch of waffles and fed the Alex breakfast. I made a mistake though and let Adam sleep in too long, I'm not used to waking up kids.

Ariel had some yogurt for breakfast.

7:50 Dashed out the door with all 3 kids. Of course it had snowed last night so we had to get on boots and hats and mittens and the leaving process took twice as long as usual. The bell rang while we were in the field but Alex sprinted and made it to his line just in time.

Then Ariel and Adam and I had to walk back home and get into the car to take Adam to school. I got him there at 8:09, school starts at 8:10. Whew.

8:15 Ariel and I came home and I had my breakfast. Ariel asked for oatmeal but only had one bite.

9:30 Left for our adventures of the day - first stop the bank. I deposited my last coins from my treasure hunting - $15.91. That brings my current found money account to $126. 21, 5 Pesos, $0.26 Canadian and two RTD tokens since July 2006. Not bad, even though Jeremy accuses me of looking homeless when I'm treasure hunting under vending machines and in pay phones.

Next stop - the car wash. Ariel even asked to pee there. And I know I just said it snowed last night, but the streets were dry and I desperately needed a vacuum.

And our last stop, the cookie store. I got a week's worth of groceries and Ariel got a sugar cookie. Ariel also ate the corner of the Cheddar Bunny box. It's a good thing I notice what she gnaws on or I'd think we'd have a mouse problem.

11:25 Got done with our errands just in time to pick up Adam.

11:45 Got home, Adam and Ariel had lunch. Ariel mainly ate chocolate pudding, Adam's request from the store. Apparently they serve pudding at ski school.

And, here's my most exciting news of the day, I bought a new potty seat and it's perfect and Ariel has no problem with it. It's by Baby Bjorn, isn't it beautiful? I love that it doesn't have any licensed characters on it.



I wish I had a slightly higher stool for Ariel, but since the seat doesn't slide around she can get up by herself. And it was SO wonderful not to clean green (but hard) poop out of the little potty this morning.



12:30 Put Ariel down for a nap.

2:30 Woke Ariel up. She had taken her dress off, but not her tights. Don't know why. But her pull up was dry!

2:40 Picked Alex up from school.

3:00 Home. After a frustrating conversation with Ariel on the details of snack (Me: You want mac & cheese for snack? Her: Snack! Me: You want a waffle like Adam? Her: Snack! Me: Do you want a banana? Her: SNACK! WAH!) she finally settled on mac & cheese.

4:15 Gave in to whining and put on a video. Adam convinced Alex that Duck Tales is not evil and now Alex has watched one tape and was willing to try another.

4:30 Pick up.

Spring Break

Our Spring Break trip was exciting enough I felt it deserved its own post even though Ariel was not there (and that was part of the excitement).

We got up to Breckenridge Tuesday night so we could ski Wednesday. Sadly, ski school was full on Wednesday and Jeremy and I had planned on not skiing with kids. But we were there and had already rented the kids skis so we took them up a lift.

Here's Adam on his first lift ride:



Unfortunately getting down did not go so well. Alex had forgotten what he learned at his last lesson and Adam was over his head even with Jeremy holding his shoulders. We decided that not only were Jeremy and I not helping the kids, but we were probably harming them so Jeremy took them to the lodge and I did 3 runs. Then I watched the kids and ate some fries while Jeremy took his turn.

On Thursday, we did get the kids into school and Grammie came skiing with us too.



Both kids did great in ski school. Adam never did leave the magic carpet but his snowplow is getting stronger and he's still having fun. Alex rode some real lifts and remembered how to turn. And Jeremy and I got in as full a day of skiing as we could.

Jeremy had to leave Thursday evening so he could work on Friday. But Ellen and Ted came up to join us for more skiing.

On Friday, Grammie took Adam home with her and Alex and Ted did a day of ski school. They had a great day and made a lot of progress, especially Alex.

And on Saturday, I took the boys up while Ellen watched from the base. Their ski school instructor took them through the baby half pipe which they thought was the best thing ever. I took them down that run several times and then we went over to the big chair and did a few blue runs. They did a great job following my line and staying in control.



Ellen took a lot of pictures and video. In this video the first little skier is Alex. Then Ellen says, "Here comes Wendy" but then a skier goes and then I go on my board. As you can see, I'm not a half pipe expert. It looks like a good way to land on your head. But I did like doing the baby jumps in the park and maybe next time I'll be brave enough to try riding a rail.



I liked the half pipe better than the Ski-a-lot trail though. That was a narrow little tree run with 3' high tires to go under. Needless to say, I am taller than 3' and I did not do well on that run. So I nixed it after two attempts.

Ted and Alex on the gondola home:



So all in all a great ski trip. I rode 4 days and Alex did 3 full days. Alas, I did not complete my life long goal of riding from the tippy top of Peak 8 all the way into town. I attempted this at the end of Saturday but I got to the last lift (it takes 3 lifts and a 1/4 mile hike to get to the top) at 2:46 and the lift closed at 2:45 and the operator would make NO exceptions to let me on a minute late even though there were still people in line. Someday though, I will complete this dream. It's good to have goals.

Oh, and one more thing, mud season ROCKS. I found $7 in change this trip buried under melting snow. Sure, some quarters required some tools like beer cans to extract but it was all worth it. $7!

Mar. 25, 2008

Went to zoo with Lilianna and Rachel. Returned with 4 kids (and as Rachel pointed out, the same kids we started with). Will maybe blog about it when my head stops hurting. We're off on our real Spring Break ski trip, see you Monday!

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Well, it's 5 days later and my head finally stopped hurting so I can blog about the zoo. First, we had to run to the grocery store to get lunch foods. The kids also ended up with donuts but none actually ate a whole one. Then we carpooled with Rachel and Lilianna and Ariel slept in the car on the way there. When we got to the zoo it was crazy busy. Busy parking, long lines and LOTS of people. Rachel has a zoo membership so we all got in free.

Adam wanted to see the penguins and Alex wanted to see the baboons so we did that side of the zoo.



About 10 minutes after we got there, Adam was starving so we ate lunch.



I styled Ariel's hair just like mine - low pony tails and a baseball cap. We were pretty cute though Ariel kept having fits about having to wear a hat.

We finally made it to the primates and by the last exhibit I was DONE so we walked back. Ariel did a lot of walking but Alex gave me grief when I asked him to give up his stroller seat for him. Why, when I was 6 I was climbing MOUNTAINS. Wuss.

We left the zoo at about 1:30 and Ariel did not fall asleep in the car or on the way home. I did however get a frappachino at Ellen's new drive thru Starbucks which was by far the highlight of my day.

Becky picked Ariel up around 3:30 (I think?) and then I scrambled to pack and get ready for our ski trip.

Mar. 24, 2008

We had a busy weekend. Hannah's first birthday was Saturday, pictures are here. And then there was Easter on Sunday and I'm still working through those pictures.

In lieu of my annual Spring Break trip to South Padre Island, I spent the day with 4 kids under 6 years old. And I realize that many women do this every day and all kids are actually their biological children but I think they must have better access to better drugs than I do.

7:15 Drop off one Ariel. Breakfast - a disappointing bowl of oatmeal. We are out of bogurt.

7:30 Drop off one Hannah, who was surprisingly clothed in an identical outfit to Ariel. Both my sister's blamed the other for the creepiness. Hannah had already eaten breakfast.

Dee-Dee worked her magic on Hannah's hair:



Hannah laughing at Alex:



Oy. The day ahead:



8:00 I finally ate my breakfast with Hannah. I was lacking Cheerios so I gave Hannah some cheddar bunnies. She LOVED them, had quite a few. Then I tried some string cheese, and she did not love it. And for kicks I offered her a sippy of OJ water and she also did not love it.



9:30 Left for our adventure of the day, the Aquarium. I can do this, right?



9:45 Quick side trip to Caribou Coffee. Today I tired a campfire mocha which I found disappointing. The chocolate chips melted into the the mocha so I didn't have anything to chew on. I have found I like little chew bits in my coffee - think java chip frappachino.



10:15 Got to the Aquarium. They had people from the Children's Museum guarding the free parking so I had to pay $6 to park. Darn. It.

And the actual aquarium was great and no harder than taking just the three.



Hannah was either in the stroller or the sling and seemed very interested. More so than this picture would leave you to believe.



I didn't get my camera out again because I wanted to return with the same number of children that I left with.

We walked through the Aquarium twice, went to the bathroom 3 times and ended with a pizza and soft pretzel. Even Hannah ate part of the pretzel.

Hannah had a bottle around 11:00 after bathroom break #2.

1:00 Got home. Both girls fell asleep and transfered to their pack-n-plays (Ellen loaned me an extra one for today).

3:00 Both girls woke up, Ariel wet. Well, Hannah might have been wet too but she had a diaper on.

3:15 Snack - Hannah had creepy spaghetti baby food and Ariel had a sauce and some leftover carrot cake. She preferred the frosting.

3:30 Trip to the park.

Both girls swung.





Other notes of interest from the park:

- The chain smoking homeless guy told me I had a "mini-you" when I walked by holding Hannah.

- Ariel pooped on a port-a-potty. Yes Becky, a REAL port-a-potty.

- Random old guy at park helped Ariel up a rock. After he left a Grandma there said it was creepy that he was there without a kid. I concur.

- Hannah had her other bottle of the day.

4:30 Got home from the park in time for Becky pick up. And sadly, Becky did not leave right way and instead abused my computer. And that's what she gets for reading over my shoulder.

5:00 Laura picked up Hannah. Becky and Ariel were still here. And that last half our with Ariel was 10 times crazier than the entire day. Ariel gets that way with her mommy.

Mar. 20, 2008

For having a bunch of stinking cats, they aren't so good at entertaining us. I'm always on the lookout for a good lolcat moment but they spent most of the time sleeping in normal boring ways. But last night I found Dexter sleeping in Jeremy's clean laundry, I thought that was pretty funny. You know, since Dexter and Jeremy are archenemies.



7:15 Drop off. Ariel wanted to wear a party dress today. And why not? Let's make every day a fiesta:



Laughing at Alex:



See, two kitties (and two gratuitous finger bandaids):



And I usually comb Ariel's hair to the side and use one barrette but today I did two so she would like like her mommy did for her first 12 years. See, Mommy, circa 1984:



Breakfast - bogurt, 1/2 packet of oatmeal and 1/2 a apple/cherry sauce.

8:50 Left for the mall

9:05 Status quo Stroller Class. Ariel peed twice on the little toilet. I couldn't take a picture because she likes me to hold her waist when she's not on her little potty. But it was no big deal.

10:40 After class we went to Starbucks and I let Ariel and Alex split a doubly chocolate frappachino. Alex didn't like his much (apparently frappachinos are only good when you are stealing mommy's) but Ariel liked hers. She also had a cookie from Kristen and Judy's birthday (twins in our class) and a string cheese and no apple sauce or banana.

11:30 Picked up Adam. Ariel fell asleep in the car.

11:45 Got home, transfered Ariel to bed.

2:00 Ariel woke up, a bit damp. But I wasn't surprised, she had a bunch to drink at lunch and I didn't get a pull up on her before we got in the car. Bye-bye party dress.

2:35 Picked Alex up from school. We played for a bit today. It is warm for the first day of spring, though there's a brisk wind too.

Here's something else we do in addition to endless swinging:



And yeah, no shoes. Ariel and crocs and playground gravel do no get along.



3:30 Came home with extra kid - one Gabriel. He'll keep the boys entertained until Ariel goes home.

3:45 Cookie snack. I asked Ariel if she wanted a snack and she said yes. I said, "Applesauce?" and she started crying. Apparently "snack" is a very specific food but I was loath to load more cheddar bunnies in her. She's going to start turning orange at this point.

4:00 Early pick up, Yay!

And tonight is Lost. All you people with that crazy TV reception, enjoy (that would be including my 90 year old grandmother). As for me, I'll catch it tomorrow. Can't. Wait. And in other exciting TV news, we should be getting our Netflix Futurama the Movie: Bender's Big Score tomorrow as well. Score indeed.

And I'm signing out for this week, Becky has Good Friday off so I do too. Have a good weekend!

Mar. 18, 2008

The No Good Very Bad Day Part 4325

4:30 Alex awoke the family by puking in his bed. After several kicks, Jeremy woke up too and used his puke cleaning super power to get Alex back in bed. I have no such puke cleaning super power and I end up puking myself at the mere smell of vomit.

5:30 Repeat

6:30 After more kicking gentle nudging, my sweet husband stopped snoozing and got out of bed.

6:45 More puking.

7:15 Sweet Ariel arrived.

Breakfast - bogurt and oatmeal.

And then, a very lazy boring morning. Alex spent his time in his room napping, puking and playing with legos. Ariel spent a good hour running to the bathroom and peeing. I think she had to poop but as soon as pee came out she got up, for another 5 minutes. Except for imitating Adam and completely taking her pants off, it wasn't too bad since there weren't any accidents. And finally she did poop and that was exciting too.

11:15 Tried to leave a bit early to stop by the grocery store to buy some ginger ale. And discovered my car wouldn't start. It wasn't the usual dead battery problem, the door lights were on as well as the clock but the engine wouldn't turn over and just made clicking noises. Alex suggested that we get a new car.

So - conundrum - I had to get Adam with no car in 10 minutes. Alex was in no shape to ride a bike so I put Ariel and Alex in the stroller and jogged up to the school.

11:40 Picked up Adam, the last lonely kid left.

11:45 Stopped at the grocery store. I bribed Adam with a donut if he would walk uncomplaining home. And Ariel got a donut by default. Alex did not. We also got some ginger ale.

12:15 Got home. Alex threw up one last time.

12:30 Put Ariel down for a nap. She was very sure she didn't want to put on her Dora underwear (pull up) so I said fine and put her down in her regular panties. She fell asleep quickly. The boys watched Star Wars.

3:30 Ariel finally woke up, dry! I sent her and Adam out in the back yard with their boots on. It got up to 50 degrees today which melted most of the snow, but still left some for Ariel to munch on.

4:15 Kids came back inside and had a snack.

Ariel is always happy with her cheddar bunnies:



Suffering from a bad case of hat hair:



Poor, sick Alex. I swear he puked 10 times today and has had 1/2 a ginger ale and a melba toast this afternoon.



4:25 Pick up.

Mar. 17, 2008

How lame am I that I'm sad I didn't get to blog on March 15th so I could tell you to beware of the Ides of March?

But I can say Happy Purim! We went to the temple's Purim Carnival on Sunday. Much fun was had by the boys, I survived.





And in the evening we made hamentashen at Grandma's house. I really wish I had taken pictures. Alex and I made very respectable triangle cookies and Adam baked up lovingly prepared but completely misshaped ones. But they all tasted the same in end.

And today, I can say,

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

7:15 Drop off. Ariel and Adam seem to be sharing a cold and Ariel's wasn't very hungry for breakfast. She did have some yogurt though.

7:50 Took Alex to school through the 5 inches of new wet snow. Ariel got her pants soaked up to her thigh walking in the "snowmen."

9:30 Took a shower and then styled Ariel's hair. Today I tried to go for a perky pony tail on top but it mostly looks just pulled back.





And what a difference a year makes! Here's Ariel last year with the same hair do:



So this weekend I took the last of my winter decorations down, the paper snowflakes on the windows. Cause, you know, spring starts this week. Ha ha:



10:00 Ariel was finally ready to eat her (fresh) oatmeal.

Potty summary of this morning... Twice Ariel took herself to the bathroom to poop in the potty. I took her to pee and once she had a very small accident followed immediately by lots of pee in the potty.

Non-potty summary of this morning... Not much happened. I took care of some chores and Ariel amused herself in a less messy way than usual.

11:30 Pick up Adam from school.

11:45 Got home. Lunch - lots of cheddar bunnies and no homemade bean burrito.

12:15 Put Ariel down for a nap. She complained for a bit and after a bit I took her out to pee again and then she fell asleep.

So this weekend I was looking at the LOLcat bible translation and did some loling myself. How can it not be lol-inducing, these are the guidelines:

At all times, remember that you're trying to produce a translation that's understandable by cats. In particular:

• Cats like having fun. Keep the translation fun.
• Cats have short attention spans. Use short sentences, and feel free to skim the more tedious bits, such as lists of "begats".
• Prefer references to things that cats would understand. A typical domestic cat probably hasn't seen a desert tent, but they have probably seen a sofa.

See, example verse from Genisis, "An Ceiling Cat can haz teh rib frum man maded into wimman, but did not eated it cuz he brot her to teh man. He sai O hai, I maded u a man but wifout teh dingy. Have fun, kthxbai."

How fortunate we are to be living in a time when Ceiling Cat's message can be read by all on the interweb.

2:20 Ariel woke up, very grumpy but with a dry pull up.

2:30 Walked to Alex's school with Ariel crying the whole way.

2:40 Walked home, Ariel was fine. She's got a temper but she doesn't hold grudges.

2:50 Snack - more bogurt. Still no burrito.

3:20 Alex went next door for a playdate which left Adam in hysterics. It's hard to be a younger brother. As a consolation prize I let him watch some Duck Tales and Ariel joined him.

4:30 Pick up once crazy girl.

This afternoon - no more accidents.

Mar. 14, 2008

Potty Training Day #19

(good enough for government work)

Your Adamisms of the day.

#1

Adam: Did you know, Emmett has a twin sister. They were in their mommy's belly at the same time.
Me: Oh, is Emmett's sister in your class, too?
Adam: No, she's 7 so she's in second grade.

#2

While talking about Australia, Adam told us, "Australia is also called Oceania, did you know?"

#3

"Mommy, I want to be a twin too." Uh, a bit late for that, boy.

7:15 Drop off. I was so not awake that I was still in the middle of a dream. Not a good way to wake up. The time change and I are not getting along At. All.

Breakfast - bogurt and half a pouch of oatmeal.

7:50 Took Alex to school... in my cow pattern jammies. Yes, it was that kind of morning.

8:00 We got home and I finally got dressed and ate breakfast and drank coffee. Coffee might be the magic ingredient to my morning.

8:10 Ariel had a nice brown poopy(ies) in the potty.

9:00 Left for the Butterfly Pavilion!

9:20 We met Rachel and Lilianna at the Pavilion.

Ariel was very excited to see the butterflies. At least the kind of butterflies that are stationary. She was not impressed with the flitting ones.



And here we are on potty training day #19 with no accidents and she and Lilianna soaked their pants playing in the drains.



Look at Ariel's little panty plumber's crack going on!



And Lilianna:



Ariel is 8 months older so right now Lilianna does seem much younger. But in a few years that won't matter at all.



Butterfly!



When you are short, you do what you need to do to see:



After the butterflies, we checked out the bug room. Both girls held Rosie:



Maybe some day Ariel's mom will be brave enough to hold Rosie too.



10:30 We had a little snack of string cheese, pretzels and no banana.

11:05 Ariel peed again on a big potty before we left the Pavilion - she went 3 times there, no fuss! And upon leaving, I made a fascinating discovery - there is a drive-thru Caribou Coffee across the street. It took all my will power not to stop by and be late picking up Adam. If you haven't had a turtle mocha, you haven't lived.

11:30 Adam pick up. Ariel had fallen asleep in the car.

11:45 Got home, Ariel transfered to her towel padded bed.

1:00 Ariel woke up, dry!

1:15 Small lunch of mac & cheese.

1:30 Ariel joined Adam in watching some Duck Tails.

Several times Ariel said she needed to go poop and she went in the bathroom but nothing happened. I think she was passing gas.

2:30 Picked up Alex from school. Another double smiley report which was easily rewarded with 10 jelly beans.

2:50 Ariel finally pooped on the potty again.

3:00 We went to the wine store and the salmon store for tonight's shabbat dinner. I saw a wine called Mommy's Time Out but they only had Pinot Grigio and I don't like white. So I got a Australia Shiraz which I will call Mommy's Time Out and consume very shortly.

3:30 Got home. Another nice pee on the potty.

4:12 Pick up.

I now consider Ariel potty trained. She was accident free and initiated several visits AND used a big potty without freaking out. What more could you want in a 2 year old?

Mar. 11, 2008

Potty Training Day #16

(the end is in sight...)

7:15 Drop off. Breakfast - again with the playing with food and not eating it. Ariel had some yogurt and just a bite of oatmeal.

8:45 No accidents before we went to stroller class. Ariel did put some green squirts in a pee visit, but otherwise no diarrhea. She also said "poop" a few times in the morning and went by herself to the bathroom and sat on the potty. I'm not sure if she tooted and thought she had already pooped, or if she's finally getting the idea of getting herself to the bathroom, but I'll take it.

9:00 Stroller class. Again with no pee accidents. Ariel used the little potty three times without a fuss. She did have a little green diarrhea accident but also put some in the potty.

10:45 For lunch we went to the food court and Alex and Ariel split a quesadilla. Ariel ate one section, along with half a napkin.

11:30 Ariel fell asleep in the car on the way to pick up Alex.

12:00 When we got home, I put a towel in the pack-n-play (since Ariel didn't have a pull up on) and transfered Ariel from the car.

1:30 Ariel woke up dry and peed on the potty. Go Ariel!

2:30 Picked up Alex from school. Apparently my biggest accomplishment of the day was not making a dinner dish for the school conferences tonight. I read the note on Sunday and filed it away thinking, "Oh, that's next week." Lots of moms made it sound so easy, "I just doubled my dinner for tonight." Uh, that would mean I had plans and provisions for my own family. Huh. Such is the life of a beta mom.

It was a beautiful sunny day in the 70s so we played on the playground for a while. Ariel looked like she needed to pee at one point and so we visited the small toilet in Alex's classroom but she didn't do anything. Ariel did play with Riley for a bit, go down the big slide head first (I caught her) and swung.

3:30 Got home and had a snack of string cheese.

We had one more small green poop accident this afternoon. The tally todays: 2 small poop accidents, no pee accidents.

4:30 Pick up.

Here's Ariel standing in our last snow pile. And taking snacks from it. I wonder why she has diarrhea?

She also put her panties and pants on all by herself and took some fashion advice from Adam by doing it backwards. Her hair looks like a disaster but she did have pigtails until a 10:00.



And at some point after Ariel woke up from her nap, she dumped out 5 wooden puzzles into a big pile. I'm trying to bribe the boys to clean it up with ice cream. I'll consider it a success if they do everything but the 45-piece USA map. Sigh.



And, first (FINALLY) sign of spring spotted today:

Mar. 10, 2008

I think it's a well know fact that I don't like winter. The only redeeming part is snowboarding and I got a lot in this weekend. Jeremy and I got to go to Breck sans kids and had a fabulous time with Sarah and Devon and downstairs tenant Nat.

On Saturday, Devon noticed that Burton was demoing 2009 boards and convinced me to try too. I didn't think it would make much difference, but now I'm searching my couch cushions for the $900 I need for this set up. It would be like if you had been riding a 50 lbs single speed cruiser bike your whole life and it was fine. You got where you needed to go and didn't know any better. Then someone came along and let you try Lance Armstrong's bike and it was life changing. And then you had to give it back at the end of the day. Anyway, here's the Feelgood board I got for the day (it was supposed to be for an "hour" but Devon and Nat convinced me the Burton guys were not going to take off to the bar with the credit card I had to leave with them).



Much adult beverage was consumed Saturday night but we still were able to get a nice half day in Sunday. My day was a run short because we got to the parking lot and I realized my boots were back in the condo, but I digress. Devon helped me with jumping and on our last run we went through the small terrain park and I did a few "real" jumps. Hot dog!

Here's a random picture of looking back at Sarah and Devon on the E Chair:



Potty Training Day #15

(diarrhea cha cha cha - for complete lyrics, see urbandictionary)

7:15 Drop off. But it felt like 6:15. I hate daylight savings time. I hate it so much I was just going to cut and paste last year's rant instead of dedicating energy to write a new one this year. But all I wrote last year was, "Stupid, cheap daylight savings time." I guess that sums it up fine.

Ariel came in and peed on the potty like an old pro.

Breakfast - half a yogurt.

7:40 Hannah joined us for part of the morning. The more, the merrier!

7:45 Just as we needed to be getting out the door to get Alex to school, Ariel had a small, very green diarrhea accident. Most was contained to her panties but she did squirt some more in the potty. I said a few days ago that I would consider this potty training a success if no one got ebola, but at least right now only Ariel has the plague.

8:05 Got Alex to school late. Sigh.

When we got home, Ariel peed again in the potty. And a bit later had some more green diarrhea. It was less contained than the first accident.

9:00 Grandpa (or Backa as Ariel calls him) got back from his doctor's appointment. He and Hannah joined us in a walk to Starbucks.

When we got to Starbucks, Ariel peed on the big ("Too big, Dee-Dee!") potty and earned a sprinkle donut:



Ariel is a lot like Adam and only ate the top (aka sprinkle) portion of her donut.

Hannah looked like she needed a treat too so I gave her a piece of my donut and she didn't even gag:



Backa is just happy to be here:



11:00 Got home. Ariel peed in the potty again. Then Backa took apart my attic vent and we found that yes, we do have access above the dryer. Yay, we may get the closet fixed sometime soon. Backa also commented there seemed to be something wrong with our dryer venting, the closest was very humid. Thanks Capt. Obvious!

11:25 Ariel and I rode my bike to pick up Adam.

11:40 Adam pick up. He was late because he didn't hear the bell and stayed outside with the kindergarteners.

11:45 Got home. I made lunch - canned ravioli. Ariel had several. Then she peed on the potty went down for a nap with zero fuss.

2:00 Ariel woke up with a dry pull up and I got her out of the pack-n-play in time to pee in the potty.

2:35 Picked up Alex from school.

3:15 More diarrhea cha cha cha. There was more this time so Ariel got a little bath too.

4:30 Pick up.

We are getting real close on this potty training thing. Ariel didn't have any pee accidents and even though she had 3 diarrhea ones she was fine with putting the diarrhea in the potty too.