Our summer cultural festival tour landed us at Cristo Rey
hello furrowed brows
and smack in the middle of a long outdoor mass…a long…bilingual mass.
In so doing, we helped our children utilize their cross-cultural cheap hollander skills and hit up the vendors for free food.
We’ve done a lot of farming and have had several discussions as to why their crops are not ready to harvest two days after planting seeds.
Lots of bike riding.
and potty training.
Oy.
I have calculated that the amount of time I spend getting them both on and off and rewarded and singing and clapping and potty songs and dances, I could have knit a shawl using toothpicks and cobweb yarn…
to cover my house.
Which is why I have not knit a stitch in weeks.
But I have done some sewing for my new career direction, hint number one:
and my first practice student:
two tatoos = 2 days of successful potty
Im gonna take a couple months off folks…enjoy your summer!
13 Comments
June 5, 2009 at 11:48 am
You too! Good luck with that potty training. I used lots of bribery.
June 5, 2009 at 1:03 pm
We used (don’t laugh) Cheerios. Aim small, miss small.
June 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I cheated in the potty training dept. One child woke up the day she turned two and said “Need to us the potty!” That was the end of that.
My son trained himself when he wanted to be like the big boys at school. He was 2 1/2 – they were 3 1/2.
So, I wish you the best of luck. Hopefully things will go quickly from here on out.
June 5, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Yoga goddess???
June 5, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Have a great summer! I’ll miss your posts and pictures.
It looks like you’re going to be a yoga teacher. Good luck to you!
June 5, 2009 at 7:55 pm
cheerios in the potty are great target practice.
June 5, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Yeah I might have taken a picture of the first potty pee. I resisted blogging about it or taking a picture of first potty poo. I understand your joy.
June 6, 2009 at 12:11 am
You are so brave to potty train two. One is kicking my butt big time. Two would drive me over the bend. The things you learn when training boys.
June 13, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Charlie potty trained out of sheer embarrassment. He didn’t want the bigger boys on the block to tease him….and he wanted to pee on the tree by the curb with them without his pullups showing. Have a great summer!
June 14, 2009 at 1:03 pm
You have time to do yoga ???? Love the items–where is your site or are they in a shop??
I potty trained my Granddaughter-and did it so completely overboard that on the way to take her home to her parents she announced that she had to go potty NOW–I said,”it’s ok , you have on a pull up so just go. She cried and screamed-”NO-I am a big girl and if I pee on Barbie she will be mad !!
As I carried her rushing
to the reststop batheroom she let the pee go-it went out the side of the pull up and soaked me !! All Day everywhere we went she announced to every one she met-”My Grandma smells like Pee-Pee !! A classic – be careful what you wish for !
And you are right-it is easier to throw out a pull up then to potty train a small child–maybe you could get them to compete against each other for prizes-whoever uses the potty without accidents that day get a prize.
Have a wonderful summer with the 3 men in your life.
June 16, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Have a wonderful summer!
June 18, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Enjoy your summer…I can’t imagine how hard it could be to potty train two at the same time but I’m sure you will be successful, eventually…ciao
July 19, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Okay, you’ve had enough time off. We all miss your posts and you need to come back now! LOL!