Parenthood

No one tells you how to do this. Sure, there's books. There's websites. There's "experts." You can read all that stuff and it might help. Odds are though, it won't. They're ideas and things that worked for others. Your kids are smater than that. They won't fall for the experts tips and tricks. They make YOU figure it out - the hard way.

Mason has been fully potty trained for #1 for at least a year and a half. Its like clockwork now. He can correctly identify all of his ABC's, 123's, colors, and car engine parts. He wouldn't poop in the toilet though. He'd politely request a diaper and then void.

Then something changed. Wednesday, March 25, 9:30 AM I receive a call at work. Mason POOPED in the TOILET!!! And I beamed for the next 12 hours.

I hadn't taken any time off (aside from unplanned snow days) since last summer so I decided to take last Thursday and Friday off. On Thursday, Luis and I took the kids to Enchanted Forest.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
Luis found a 'coon in the Enchanted Forest.

Luis and Siena in the Witches mouth. Mason was too scared to go in...

Standing under the tree seemed safer to him than the witches mouth.

He was also a little wary of the crooked house. Siena loved it though!

Luis and Siena did the slide...

Then we proceeded to the Wild West!

Takin' a break...

And smilin' all the while...

Happy Nannies at the bottom of another slide...

The kids LOVED the kiddie Bumper Boats that they got to drive themselves.

Mason went on it twice, the second time while Siena and I were on the big toboggan ride (the one he was scared to go on).

He wouldn't do this ride either but Siena was game!

The choo choo train was also a big hit!

Making sure Siena was tall enough to ride the roller coaster - and she is by a good 2 inches!

Siena did GREAT on the roller coaster. She loved it. She was a little wary of this one though. Too much frog hopping perhaps.

It was a great day. All of us enjoyed Enchanted Forest. Course, on the drive home the kids had to try to provoke each other. Siena wailed...

and apparently Mason's bottle of juice was the cause. Nevermind that Siena had half of the bottle of juice in her own cup. Nooooo, she wanted the bottle.

Friday the kids went to spend the night at YaYa and Papa Ron's. Luis and I enjoyed our first movie in the theater since July (we saw Duplicity which was good) and had a great dinner out with the DeCicco's.

Saturday was back to more family time. The kids were a little tired after a night at YaYa's (she was probably tired too) so we stayed close to home. Today too.

I spent 45 minutes in the bathroom with Mason today trying to coax him into pooping in the toilet again. Finally Luis was able to get him too. Apparently I thought after going once, the seal would be broken and all pooping would flow easy. Nope. Now we have 2 down though and hopefully more to come.

Luis went downtown today to see if he could get a part as an extra in a movie being filmed in town next month. Unfortunately, the rest of the Portland unemployed had the same idea...

He's not quite Hollywood enough to wait in this line...

Back to my messy house for another week.