Potty trained!!!!

YAY we finally have Ashely potty trained! Whooohoo! We started this past weekend and she is doing great. Today was the first outing in big girl pants and we went to the library for storyhour then to the BX. We had to visit the bathroom 3 times but only once made a deposit. I was just super happy that she didn't have an accident. Yay, we have a big girl on our hands.

Mike's Radio

So here is Mike's latest project a Philco radio from 1938. He bought it off ebay (we picked it up in Fargo) and stripped it down, sanded, refinished, replaced all the tubes and compacitors, order a new part for the dial and so here it is. The only thing left to do was to order the original fabric for the bottom as this has been changed. Oh and the darn thing really works. It picks up stations from all over, the other night we were listening to a Thailand station. It's pretty neat.

The only problem is now he is addicted to the old radios. Two days later we were at a garage sale out in the prairies of GF and came across one from 1935ish so he had to have that one too. Oh well, I got my crop-a-dile so I'll be happy for a little while :)

32 degrees

Holy cow it is only 32 degrees outside. Brrr, I had to turn the heat on this morning when we woke up because apparently I stole all the blankets and Mike was left with a sheet for most of the night. Oops! Brr. I better get back into my ND layering mode.

Gotta bundle up all those kiddos cause were heading out for story hour. I love story hour, especially cause they do art projects which means no clean-up for me! Last week the theme was monsters and so they made paper bag puppet monsters. Ben if so scared of Ashley's, everytime he sees it he starts screaming.

3 Firsts in 1 day!

So we put Ben in the pool today for the first time. He is usually quite finicky with cold water but today he seemed to love it. He sat in there for close to 20 minutes.

He's already picking on his big sister. tisk tisk

His second first was saying "mama". He did it probably 10 times yesterday!

Aren't they cute from behind? Anyway his 3rd first was clapping. Which is what Ashely was showing him to do in this photo. He is doing it on demand now, as soon as we clap he starts too!

We went on a date....

So Mike and I got a babysitter for the day and went downtown for a movie. We had planned on seeing Chuck and Larry but when we got there we realized that Borne Ultimatum was still playing. Yippee! So I saw my first....let me repeat that....first movie in a theater since we moved to Grand forks in 03. Crazy huh? I am really not a fan of movie theaters (and it drives Mike nuts). I don't know why but here are a few of the reasons I have come up with....

1. I'm short and tall people with big heads always sit in front of me.
2. The chairs are always uncomfortable.
3. I always get cold!!!!!!
4. I end up biting my nails to where they almost (or do) bleed.

I know I am weird but for the most part I would much rather lay at home on the couch with a big blanket cuddling with my hubby or kiddos. The ability to pause the movie for a bathroom or snack break is always a plus...

So anyways I actually did pretty good in the theater besides being uncomfortable and COLD. The movie was great and we both enjoyed the time out. Plus the kids did well with the sitter even though Ben refused his bottle. At least he is eating some solids now so she could feed him that instead! When we got home she had both kids passed out for naps at the same time (trust me that's a challenge). If ya need a sitter, I know a good one!