Highlights from our week

I thought I would try to start to do highlights from our weeks since there are so many moments that touch my heart.

Madeline went poo poo on the potty tonight. HUGE party here!!! We celebrated with suckers… Madeline’s choice. After all the dancing, praising and congrats she was pretty proud of herself. Hopefully she will remember how amazing it is to go on the potty.

I took the kids on a bike ride this week. I thought I would just walk it like I did last year but was presently surprised that I ended up walking, jogging and running the whole thing. Yesterday, I dusted off my bike and we all went for a ride. It made me think of all the times mom (janice) would take us for bike rides. It also made me realize that my kids are growing up. I look forward to biking as a family. Though I’m really not quite sure what I will do with my leisure walking. Humm…. Might have to go out in the evenings for that one.

At B&N this week, Caleb happened to come across the book, “How to Train a Dragon.” He really wanted to take it home and read it but I told him the same response I give him every time… we will check it out from the library the next time we are there. Today we went to the library and he asked for it. I didn’t write down the author so we had to ask a librarian about the author and she said there might be a wait since the movie just came out. As soon as we found it, Caleb grabbed it and said, “mom, we found it. We found it mom” as he jumped up and down. It was really cute. I love how the kids are really getting into books.

Colgate had a really cool promotion going on where the kids could click on stars for items that they completed… brushing teeth, reading a book and washing their hands. We put it in their bedtime routine at night and the kids loved it and have been looking forward to the reward at the end… a toothbrush. They are so excited to get them in the mail. Well, tonight was the final night of 8 weeks of clicking the stars. We made a huge deal out of it and were so excited to see what our winnings were to discover that the promotion ended in Dec 2009. Bummer… They will still be getting their toothbrushes in the mail as soon as I get them and throw them in the mailbox when the kids are not looking. The kids liked this so much that I need to find something that they can click and do.
http://www.colgate.com/app/HealthyHabits/US/EN/HomePage.wsp

We gave away our patio table today. A friend’s husband came and pick it up. The kids and I watched Eric and the husband take it to the truck through the window. Caleb was really upset that we were getting rid of it. I told him that we had not used it in years and it was just taking up space. He starting crying and said we used it when he was 3. I stop, thought for a moment and said on your birthday and he said yes. The memory of his 3rd birthday came to mind. We made Spiderman masks on it. Eric walked in and Caleb proceeded to tell him that he wanted the table and he last used it when he was 3. Eric replied… Caleb that was 2 years ago. He eventually got over it but what an attachment.