Great Week!

We've had a great week thus far ;) Monday Blake and I went to preschool in the morning, while Emerson stayed home with Cal. When the kids woke up from their afternoon naps we left for Stony Plain. We had an appointment with our financial advisor and then took supper over to Colby, Jenna and Grandma Bev! The boys had a blast playing with Cal and it was nice to see and visit Bev! And I got to spend lots of time with Jenna! She gave me the biggest cuddle, which was so, so sweet!!! I love cuddles :) Monday was Blake's 1st day outside of the house since beginning potty training. And he did AWESOME!!! No accidents and he used the big potty at the YMCA and Colby's potty! We were very happy! He continues to great with the potty. He takes awhile to do #2 and has had a few #2 accidents, but yesterday was totally accident free!! I'm not sure when his last pee accident was and it's been almost 2 days with out the other accident! We're so proud of him :) He's done amazing!! He was obviously ready!

Wednesday afternoon Christa and Berlyn came over for a visit! It was nice to visit and see Berlyn! She's growing fast ... I think she will be tall like her Mommy! Wednesday evening my Mom came over to babysit the kids, while Cal and I went to the Oilers vs. Flyers game. We had a nice night out! Thanks for babysitting Mom!!

Thursday morning my Mom, the kids and I went to Kingsway Mall. Blake LOVES Handy Manny, who is a Disney character, so I thought we'd see if the Disney store had any Handy Manny stuff. And they did! Blake also likes to watch Mickey's Clubhouse (it's on before Handy Manny!), so he LOVED the Disney store and seeing Tigger, Mickey, Donald, Minnie, etc!! He hasn't seen any of the Disney movies, but got a lot of the books as gifts (Toy Story, Cars, Winnie the Pooh!), so he knows all the characters!! We'll have to visit the Disney store again in the near future! I think Blake could have spent a few more hours there ;) I can only imagine how much fun Blake would have in Disney Land or Disney World!! We will definately be taking him there one day!!

Thursday evening I visited 2 dayhomes and this morning the kids and I visited 1 more! 1 of the dayhomes from last night was NOT good!! The other was GREAT!! And the dayhome this morning was good, but not as good as Nancy's from last night! I actually talked to Nancy before I talked to Karen (the lady who quit on us!), but went to Karen's 1st and thought it was so good I didn't even bother going to Nancy's! But, as I said in my last post, things happen for a reason and this is definitely an example of that! I think Nancy's is even more suitable for us, so there you go!! I'm taking the kids there on Tuesday morning for lunch, so if all goes well we will be signing up! The oddest part about Nancy's dayhome is that Blake's friend Vanessa (from the 1st Karen's dayhome, back before we had Emerson) goes there!!! I couldn't believe it when I found out!? How ironic! Blake and Vanessa were little buddies, so hopefully they'll remember each other!! And it is comforting to know that Vanessa's family likes Nancy, because they loved Karen and Karen was so good, so to me that must mean that Nancy is just as good! They've been going to Nancy since Karen closed her dayhome back in December of '08. Now we're just hoping that this all works out, because I'm back to work in 3 weeks and really don't need to be looking any more!!!

Tonight we have gymnastics. We're debating whether or not to enroll in another session. I'll have to get a better feel for whether or not Blake wants to continue! Most classes he really enjoys and he gets to burn a lot of energy! But he will be going to a dayhome 3 days a week and swimming lessons will continue on Saturday mornings and I don't want him to be too "over programmed!!" Although, the kids will be home on Mondays with Cal and Fridays with me, so maybe that's enough down time??

We'd also like to wish Cal's brother Gerry a very happy 30th birthday!!! It's the big 3-0 today! Boy that's old Gerry ... lol!! I'm 29 and holding forever ;)

Have a great weekend everyone! I know we will!! We're looking forward to the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon!! GO COLTS!!!! Cal, Blake and Em will all be sporting their jerseys ;) We're very excited about Blake's new jersey from Grandma D!!!

xoxo Tracy