A Monday Funny

So Brady is beginning to show some interest in the potty and I am so sure that I will have many more of these stories to share, but here is the first.

We have found the perfect bribe to Brady to achieve our potty training goal before the glorious date of September 7th- the first day of PreK 3 for B and K- GUMMY BEARS!!

Anyway, Brady was talking about his gummy bears this morning before I went to work, so I asked him if he wanted to try to go before Mommy leave for work. He went to try and we had no luck. So I grabbed a handful of Cherrios to give that a try. He thought this was a very fun idea but still had no luck- he even grunted a couple of times.

Katie came into the bathroom and saw what fun Brady was trying to have. "I want to try it Mommy! I want to squirt the cherrios!" I had to explain to her that this was a fun game for boys and we would think of another game for her.

I walked out of the bathroom and this is the conversation I heard.

B: "Katie, you can't squirt cherrios because you don't have a tootie. You have a vagina."

K: "Oh maaannnn! Brady, can I borrow your tootie?"




P.S. I need to post about our Gatlinburg vacation. I promise to get to it this week.

The Big Boy Haircut

A few weeks ago, I took the kids for haircuts at the mall. After we were finished, I ran into my good friend Joanna. Joanna, also the mother of boy/girl twins, is one of those friends that you always know will tell you the truth even though it may not be what you want to hear. I love her for that and that is the reason I knew she would be honest with me about my recent haircut- that I am still not so sure about.

Anyway, this is about Brady's haircut- not mine. :) Back at the mall, she noticed Katie's haircut right away and thought it looked great. Brady's? Well, she was not too keen on it. I looked pretty much like Katie's with a lot more curl.

Then we started getting the comments- "how cute, two girls!" and "look at her curls!" So, before I left for my business trip on Monday, I mentioned to Rob that maybe we should get him a "Big Boy" haircut. So, Daddy to him to a barber shop and the two boys of our family got a "real" haircut.

What do you think?

I think he looks so much like his Daddy now. Daddy thinks he looks like his cousin Cody. Katie thinks he is handsome. Brady is happy he can see his ears.

I think they are growing too fast.

Sunday with Mimi & Papa

Happy Monday! We spent Sunday at Mimi and Papa's house . We started our day walking our 3 miles for our training* then headed north to Mass. Brady and Katie went to children's church. After church, we met with Miss Dottie and Mr Tony (Mimi and Papa's friends) for lunch. Brady took a nap back at Mimi and Papa's but Katie was too excited to sleep. She was looking forward to playing outside in the little pool, slip and slide and big pool. Check out these videos.

Anna and Harry came over for a visit too. It was great to see them and catch up. .After swimming, we sat down to hamburgers and steaks on the grill with corn on the cob and lots of other goodies.

While we were cleaning up, the kiddos wanted to go outside again. Papa and Harry took them out to the swings. I think Katie had enough excitement for one day.

*Rob and I have started training to walk in the Breast Cancer 3-Day. More information to come on that.