HELP!!! Soliciting your Advice!

HELP!! We've endeavored into the "We're Serious Now" Potty training mode with Mason! I need TIPS!! I know that many of you out there have successfully trained boys and I NEED TO KNOW what worked for you!

We've been at it for about a week now... I'm to the point of letting him be in diapers till he's 10!! I'm soo frustrated!!! We've put him on the potty every 30 minutes with sticker chart reward after! It's time to step it up to the next level- Gimme any suggestions ya got! ... And YES!- we've tried the "sink the cheerio" trick! :D ...Actually it was goldfish crackers 'cause that's all I had on hand! It works good, but now he expects a snack when he's on the potty! UGH!!!!

They say EVERYBODY has a Twin Out There Somewhere....

It was brought to my attention that my favorite brother in law, Mario, often gets mistaken for John Legend! It was actually our waiter who brought it up. He was all smiles," ...So I bet you get this a lot- But, You look a lot like..." Now until he said that, I hadn't ever put the two together. But sure enough- the resemblance is uncanny! What do you think?

I tried to get Mario to throw his "John Legend" weight around and get us some upgrades at the Day Spa... No luck! :D








And just today I was told by a patient that I'm a dead ringer for the ESPN Sportscaster Heather Cox, who happens to live in the area also... Somebody BETTER tell me if my bangs start to look like this! I expect a true friend INTERVENTION!!! HA! HA! HA!! :D


To be fair though, here is a more RECENT picture of her... :D

Turkey Recap...

Well it's ALMOST too late to mention how much fun we had at Thanksgiving! We went down to California to visit my Sister,Trysh and her family. We had such a good time! The first day was actual Turkey day- I don't think I have TOTALLY recovered fully from ALL that FOOD! YUM,YUM! We then tried to fight off the triptophan (sp?) by....what other than.... AMERICAN IDOL, Wii version!--- I have a new respect for those contestants... WAY HARDER than it looks! Later on, after everyone slipped into our PJ's ( 2 other families joined in the sleepover!! :D) and put all the kids to bed, we challenged each other to a very vocal game of 'Battle of the Sexes'! The Boys beat us, but OF COURSE- We're still reviewing the tapes for the final verdict on a couple of their answers!



The next day, we awoke to the the FIRE ALARM and delicious breakfasts aromas... But mostly the fire alarm!!!... (Which no one REALLY knows why it went off! The food wasn't burning or anything!) Breakfast was OVER THE TOP GOOD! Trysh's Friends know how to cook!!... Of course so does Trysh! :D After breakfast, we mounted up and headed over RPM to race some go-karts! Those puppies were fast! I wish that I could say that I whooped up on the boys...BUT I CAN'T! I got schooled then left at the bus stop!!! But at least I didn't get any "BLACK" Flags...OR TWO OR THREE!!! (BEN!!!!) Afterwards, we met up with everyone else at the roller skating rink! I haven't done that since I was in grade school! But it was fun rolling around to the music and the disco lights! I, of course, traded in my old school skates for some roller blades. The four wheel where just too.... stable! Mason had a good time at his first skating rink experience, but he would rather stick around the arcade games. Luckily, his cousin Anissa showed him the ropes! Those two were inseparable the whole weekend! It was adorable! And to top off the whole day, we headed over the Leatherby's, an old style ice cream parlor that made sundaes bigger than my head!!! Very nostalgic!

On Saturday- Trysh, Mario, Ben and Myself left the kids with my capable nephew, Marquis, in charge and a promise that he got $5 a dirty diaper and a nice Christmas present for each "Poops" diaper he changed. He handled the wet diapers beautifully...except that he put the new one on backwards! But at the sign of the first "Poops" diaper... He promptly called his auntie Jamie (who lives just 2 miles away) to come resolve the situation! :D THANK YOU JAMIE for EVERYTHING!!! And Marquis earned his money that day! :D So the four of us, drove down the San Fransisco for a little day trip and a relaxing SPA EXPERIENCE!!! AHHH! We're talking white plush robes and ALL! Massages, pedicures, manicures... OH MY!!! IT was heaven! A BIG Thank you to Mario and Trysh for making it a truly MEMORABLE experience for us! It was some MUCH NEEDED relaxation for Ben and myself. We had lots of laughs and a few tears... mainly when Mario had to LEAVE the SPA! He could have stayed there forever :D... and he's not alone!

YES, It was a JAM PACKED weekend that topped the memory list! Thank you again for having us down! We love You and miss you already!

Irony is Everywhere!

I was making dinner the other night when I looked up and was struck with the funniest realization! I've had this family picture sitting on my counter, waiting to find the right frame for it....for probably 3 months now. It's to the point that I forget it's even there! We got a new pet fish (Mason has named him Fishy...) about a month ago. So the other night I REALIZED that it PROBABLY WASN'T the BEST idea to have the two of them next to each other... POOR FISHY!

SHHHHH! I'm trying to EAT my words while reading!

Sorry- I haven't been blogging - I've been reading the "Twilight" book...and soon to be book(s)... I've wanted to see what all the hype was about. And I have to say, I'm hooked! I'm not a big reader and this is the fastest I've ever plowed through a book. Why just today I found myself squeezing in a little reading... WHILE I WAS WAITING AT A STOP LIGHT! VERY, VERY unusual for me!!! I apologize to all of you that I made fun of for this type of behavior. I guess it true what they say... "Don't knock it 'till you try it!" :D Here's to you EDWARD for making 'pale' skin an attractive feature! (Just remember- I was pale ( and always will be!) before it was cool to be!) HA! HA!