My little buckaroo has learned to poo!

My baby is growing up!! We've been working hard on potty training all weekend. Finally, today~ I think he's got it!

We started trying last year. I put him on his potty seat for the first time while waiting for bath water to run. Almost as soon as I sat him down, he pooped! I was so excited, I thought WOW~ this is going to be a BREEZE! Well, much to my dismay, he didn't do it again until this weekend, lol!

I worked with him off and on all year but I could tell that mentally he was just not getting it. I was just running myself ragged taking him in the bathroom every 30 minutes. I even tried going cold turkey and using good ol' cotton training pants. He soaked 12 pair in one day and I said the heck with it.

I wanted to get this battle won this summer... but he's also been getting his molars and he gets the runs while teething. SO, not gonna even go there while that's going on!!

Then my FIL showed me an article in the paper about potty training on certain days according to the Farmer's Almanac. I told my girlfriend about it... she tried it and it worked!! I didn't want to do anything before we went to Branson, but was ready to go full on when we got back. So this past Friday was one of THE DAYS, and it worked out perfectly because I was off work Fri, Sat, Sun, and Mon.

I really think he's *trained*. I'm sure he might have a few accidents but that's ok. I bribed him with M&M's after he would go, and also Spuddies, (aka Pringles).

Look at my lil' buckaroo in diapers! *SNIFF*

I have spent so much $$$ on different potty seats. The first one I bought was a little chair, with a removable cushy seat. I wanted him to be comfy, ya know? Well, that thing was gross. When he peed, the stream would hit the guard, then run all around the underside of the cushy seat. So, not only did I have to empty the potty, but lift that seat out of it and clean all of that. Blech!

Here he is at a year old wearing a onsie my friend made. The front says "Birthday Boy Bandit".

Next, I bought him a cushy seat that fits on top of the regular toilet. That one sucked because the splash guard was too wide and looked like it hurt his legs. So, I bought another cushy one with a built in guard in the molded cushiness. This one worked pretty well, so I bought another for the upstairs bath. Yet still, pee would get between the two seats once in a while, plus I really got sick of moving it back and forth for when we adults had to go.

Finally I found the flip-n-flush! It's an awesome seat that attaches between the normal toilet seat and lid. Flip it down for them, flip it up for you, and you can close the lid when you don't wanna look at it. You can also pop it right off if you're having company and don't want them to see or deal with it.

Look at my big boy buckaroo! *SNIFF*

Now he can go to Pre School this fall... or as he calls it, "Pretty School", ha!

I LOVE the flip-n-flush!! I just give the built in guard a wipe after I wipe him and we're good to go!

We've watched Potty Time with Bear in the Big Blue house, along with Elmo a zillion times. I just love Bear tho. I discoverd him back in 1991 and said when I had kids they were gonna watch him! Good thing Nova likes him, lol... I found about 20 videos on eBay.

Here's a portion of Bear's Potty Time. Pretty cute song!

Next up is Potty Time with Elmo. This song is pretty cute too! Elmo *really* gets on my nerves tho, can't take much of him!



This is just a parady of Bear; "Soulja Bear"... I found it while searching for the others and just cracked up watching it, so I thought I'd share~

Happy Mother's Day to the cake decorator "extraordinaire"

Here is my pretty and talented mom! This was taken at my brother's wedding a year ago~

























Here's a recent pic, my brother with their new baby. Grandma is very happy!





















I'm going celebrate my mother by bragging about one of her favorite hobbies; her cake decorating talent. (You may want to stop and grab a glass of milk!) She used to take orders when I was little, now she just does it for fun, or for people she knows. Here she's adding "Luna" the moon to my son's Bear in the Big Blue House cake from his second birthday.




























This is the Toy Story cake I was telling you about. I asked her to do Andy's room, it turned out so cute! The blocks are cake too, and the headboard is a cookie.




































She made this cowboy hat cake for my son's first birthday. Yeehawww, carrot cake!





























My wedding cake~ these photos don't do it justice













































My brother's wedding cake~



























A replica of my inlaw's original cake for their 50th wedding anniversary~ along with photos of the cake from their wedding day





























Here's the original!


















































My cousin's cake~ the couple wanted a very earthy/woodsy cake with fairies. The bride got tears in her eyes when she saw it! Ladybugs, acorns, leaves and wild mushrooms adorn this cake.


























A fall wedding cake~




























Her most recent cake for a western themed wedding anniversary~complete with edible barbed wire






















She also does pannoramic sugar eggs for Easter. I have my friend Becca to thank for this photo from http://bluebirdroses.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html as I don't have a decent pic. Everything is edible, even the bunny, chic, and birdbath. I always loved Easter time because I got to eat any critters that got broken! My dad usually helped do the bunny faces.




















Gingerbread is another art of my mom's. She has won a few prizes in contests she's entered. One was a trip to Florida. The chef that she beat was a sore loser and destroyed his own creation after the judging! The house in these pictures was a display at a contest and had been there quite a while by this point, so some of the decoration was begining to fall off. (People pick at them too!) See the stained glass window?