Magic, Potty, Library... that might be all.

Look, Mom! Photos.

Brian and Stephen went to an Orlando Magic game this week. The next morning (they got home aftermidnight) I got this report from Stephen, "Mommy, it was super fun, there was a green dragon and fireworks came out of his hands, then he did flips with some guys and I ate a big big hot pretzle" Later he told me he ate a huge bucket of popcorn too. Apparently Brian's trick to get Stephen to watch an entire basketball game is keep him busy with food! I approve of course. :)

Doesn't he look old in this photo? Crazy. Here they are in their seats during the game. Still smiling.
I'm sure Brian knows who this guy is...
The Magic did win that game so they go on to the next level of whatever it's called. Brackets or something. I dunno.

Stephen is finally willingly potty training! Hurray. He told me he wanted to the other day. Today is day three. He had two accidents on day one, two on day two and none today! Only pee though, he only poops overnight. So he's still in diapers for bedtime. I'm still happy. No diapers during the day for us on him is awesome. What's super cute is Ethan. He's really interested in all this, he has to sit on the potty each time Stephen does, he gets you to take his diaper off and everything. So far nothing from him, but he's thinking about it. Yesterday he pushed his penis down and said, "Come OUT" but nothing. Totally cute though. We are doing sitting down. It's working for us so that's what we do. I'm also doing rewards. Stephen gets one skittle each time. If he brings it up he gets two skittles. Like if he says, "I need a potty break" that's worth two skittles. I'm trying to say, "Time for a potty break" every hour or so and if he pees on a mandatory potty break he just gets one skittle. I'm trying to get him to tell me when he needs to go.

We have gone out two times during this. Once to Chilli's resturant. No accident, I made him sit on the potty there, but he said he didn't have pee and he was right. We went to the park after so that was a good two hour outing.

Then today we went to the library. The BIG Main library down town. It was awesome. We had never been. I gotta get a babysitter and go for hours alone. I could live there, it was like libraries in movies, seriously you can't imagine if you have a dinky library *MOM* what this is like. HUGE. So they have this giant Children's Libary section, and seriously it's about the size of most branch libraries. We did story time, then a different story time where an owl tells you the story, it's in this room that looks like you are outside and it's an animatronic owl. Super cute. Then art time, today was painting where you flick wet paint at paper. After that we had lunch in this courtyard they have. On the second floor, which was really the third floor. *they had a "basement" but it was above ground... that's Florida for you* Anyhow in the courtyard there were trees and such. I love gardens that are above ground level.

My point, besides that it was super fun and I forgot my camera, is that this whole thing was over 3 hours. And NO accidents from Stephen!

Oh and Stephen has always had bad skin, eczema and lots of diaper rashes. But no rashes on his butt now. So that's great for him, as he totally hates the cream. He does like the powder and asked about that. I guess we don't really powder our bums anymore once we wear big boy/girl underwear.

Oh and other news. Me and my mom have started another blog. It's called Thrift Finds and we are writing about all the magical deals we find at garage sales and thrift shops and such. It already has a bunch of entries so go ahead and click on over there and check it out. We are considering adding other contributers to it over time, so all our friends can blog about what they find all over the country on one blog. I got an awesome dining room table that I love for $20 last weekend! CHA CHING!

Well that's about all. Oh tonight's tick us off moment is when we opened a brand new bill! We now pay $120 a year for garbage and rainwater removal. It's actually half and half. $60 a year for garbage doesn't sound horrible honestly, but $60 to let rain water run into existing gutters? And it's not MY water, we all know who is responsible for that water, although I rekon I'd rather pay it than send Him a bill. So they break this joy up for us into two $60 payments a year. I tell you guys every single month there is an unexpected bill of $60. I guess this is May's bill because I had a bunch last month from the mamogram. *seperate bill from everyone who looked at it, and you'd think I would be charging to let people look at my boobies, nope I gotta pay people to do it*

And that really is all. good day to you.