today has been a very exciting day for us as a family! for two reasons...
first and most exciting, tuscan peed on the potty 4 times today! and all 4 times was out of his own encouragement. he was taking his diapers off by himself and walking into the bathroom and trying to sit on the big potty by the time we got in there to help him! we are so very proud of him...our original goal has been to have him potty trained before we go to virginia beach at the end of august and for a while that seemed like a goal that would be hard to reach, but all of a sudden he has a huge interest in going on the potty and an even bigger lack of interest in wearing diapers...im sort of thinking the huge box of size 5's i just bought at BJ's yesterday may get put aside for when the twins are wearing that size because at this rate tuscan will be wearing pull ups before the end of the month!!
secondly, frank did his first official catering job today! he has done a few big parties on his own before, but they have always been for us, i.e. beths bridal shower, tuscan's birthday parties...a dinner at dr.lewis's. but this party he was hired to do by a woman that beth works with at the hospital, it was her sons college graduation party and frank was cooking for about 75 people. most of the cooking he was able to get done here at our house...some of it he waited until he got on site. it was hosted at one of the local churches. he made 2 salads, homemade red sauce with sausage and homemade meatballs, mach lasagne, pasta carbonara, a cheese platter, a fruit platter, italian roasted chicken...there was bread...it was awesome!! i am so proud of him for receiving and accepting this opportunity to provide even more for his family. aside from some of his "little quirks" in the past, frank has always been a hard worker and i appreciate all that he does to try and provide for us and the kids. he had a stack of "business cards" sitting out on the table and when he left the stack was quite a bit smaller and the compliments were pouring into the kitchen! so who knows, maybe this will turn into a little side job for him! between the extra money he could be making doing that and the money we could be saving if tuscan stops wearing diapers, we might be living large by the end of the year!! lol - hey i can dream can't i?!?!
but then our night ended with dinner at red robin, had to get my free birthday club burger! and we all shared some ice cream from cold stone creamery. it was kind of cool, it reminded us of being back in colorado springs, that was the place we had our first red robin and cold stone experiences and we were so excited when we found out both places were making their way into the buffalo market, now if only we would get a chipotle! i think frank and i would probably keep them in business ourselves! now im off to start a movie, one that will probably take us all week to watch, but oh well, what are ya gonna do, im just grateful to have the opportunity to watch a movie with my babe, whenever we get a few extra minutes!
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When Dylon started expressing his own interest we rewarded him by allowing him to wear a pull up (big boy diaper is what we called it) and if he had more than 2 accidents he had to use a regular diaper. The idea of wearing something for a big boy and the thought of going back to a "baby" diaper often helped as motivation for him.
YAY TUSCAN!
...of course the pull up was during the day only at first and then as he continually stayed drier we did the same to transition between pull ups and underwear.
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