How we've spent our weekend.

Yesterday Chris and I went out to dinner at our favorite Mexican place in town and then to our Sunday School dessert/lesson. (Since it's missions emphasis month, the next two Sundays we'll have missionarys speaking during the Sunday school hour and our teacher didn't want to get behind. Anyway.)We are going through "Growing Kids God's Way" and are so far loving it. It's written by Gary Ezzo, the same guy who wrote the baby/sleep book that we use, so we've been fans for a while.

Here's a hint:



Cutie patootie:



Did you guess potty training? If you did, you would be correct (have an m&m!).

Anyway, it's supposed to sleet/ice/snow today and tonight, so since we had a whole weekend at home with no plans, we decided this morning to give potty training a try with Ryan. He's pretty excited about it (and has been showing readiness for a while. It's frankly laziness on my part that's held me back from starting this long). So, it has begun. So far (it's naptime now) we've had 12 successes and 4 accidents (well, technically 5, but it was slight and he ended up going in the potty, so I didn't count it as either success or accident). I think that's pretty good for day 1! Of course, Chris and I do the potty dance with enthusiasm, but Anna-Kate has really been Ryan's biggest cheerleader. Every time he pees, she drops what she's doing and runs in and asks to see it, then claps for him, tells him she's so proud of him etc. He beams (and the m&m's don't hurt either).



So, there's been a lot of this:



I know you are all dying to hear the outcome of this story...hopefully it is short lived and will soon be history. :) We'll see.