Fairy Tales and other Children's Classics

I have recently gotten into buying "the classics" for Sophia. We don't have many movies and I thought she should know about the princesses as she IS in prime princess age. I also started to remember the titles of classics I was read as a child. Well, it has been becoming increasingly more evident how horrible they are for kids. All the princesses are in fear of their lives from an evil witch wanting to kill them. The classics like Hansel and Gretel are about evil mothers wanting to abandon her kids in a forest only to have them "rescued" by an evil witch who wants to eat them. GRRR. I tried to read Lion King to the kids and had to change it up and have Mufasa "sleep" at the hands of the Wildebeasts. Sigh...

Wish lists

Christmas and b-days are a coming, so check out the running wish list on the right for ideas for the kids and eventually me. I will take stuff off as I buy it. I hear amazon jacks up the prices close to Christmas, so I will try and get our shopping done early...

First day of school

Friday was Sophia's first official day at school. I thought she was going to make it without any tears, however, after our little good bye and kiss the waterworks started when I neared the door. She only cried for a couple minutes after I left, though and had fun. I guess I am not up for mom of the year. Unlike the other moms, I did NOT take pictures of my little girl on her first day of school. I did NOT have a special outfit for her and I did not shed a tear. I guess having her go to school last year made this less climatic, but I had none of those things happen last year either...

Dylan's potty training is going well! He has had very few accidents. Yesterday at the gym he even told them he had to go and they came to get me! Tonight he went upstairs on his own, pulled down both pants and undies, sat on the toilet and commenced action. Only problem was, aim. Luckily I was peering around the corner and caught the fountain and was able to redirect "traffic" without too much mess.

Potty training still on...

Third morning, third dry diaper, third big first pee in toilet. I took the kids to the gym today and noticed there was pee in his diaper when we got back when he asked to go. I will cut him some slack as he WAS with strangers, haha. my champ.