Outraged and Dumbfounded!

You will NOT believe what happened to me today at TARGET! My friend Kathleen and I were shopping at Target around lunchtime, the kids were hungry, so we decided to feed them at the Target snack bar. (It IS very nutritious, okay) As we are eating, feeding the kids, and trying to decide what to get our husbands for Father's Day, this young guy walks over and says, "I'm going to say this because management isn't allowed to, but you need to find a way to keep your kids quiet." I WAS SO SHOCKED THAT I COULDN'T SAY A WORD!!!! Now, those of you who know me know that this rarely happens. And even as I sit here and type this the embarrassment is creeping up on me AND I still can't think of what I could've said that would've gotten my point across and been something Jesus would approve of! It's not as though we were at a 5 star resort or something - it was TARGET for goodness sakes. This sweet older lady looked at me and said, "honey, he's going to have kids one day too". That made it a little better.

Once again I ask you, "Why me?" And once again the answer is clear - it is the story of my life.

Gymnastics

Jon Thomas has started his first official activity - gymnastics. The cutest thing you ever saw in your life! The next cutest thing is what I heard coming from JT's bedroom the night after our first gym class. Let me set the stage for you. . . Daddy is reading the nightly Bible story.

"And there was a man named Saul who was walking down a road going toward the city of Damascus."

"Ooooh Daddy, I've been there too"

"Where?"

"Gymnastus!"

HILARIOUS!

Potty Update!

Okay, Charlie still asks to go potty, but only if we are in public and Jon Thomas also goes potty. I even (in an obvious state of insanity) got out the little potty and tried it out with Charlie. He screams bloody blue murder if I suggest he goes near it. Feel better people, there will be no potty training prior to at least 30 months around
here. That's about another $700.00 in diapers. :(

I Swear This is the TRUTH (but no indication of future events)

Jonathan WAS present, so he can verify my story.

After spending 7 hours at church preparing for Bible School, Jonathan, kids, and I went to dinner. During the course of dinner, Charlie (my clearly genius not yet 15 month old) said, "I gotta tee tee". Jonathan and I stared at each other in disbelief as this is his first (and only) sentence.

"Charlie, what do you need?"

"tee tee"

"Charlie do you need to go to the potty?"

[fervent nodding of head in the affirmative] (another new trick)

I decided to go with it. I took him to the bathroom, took off his diaper and tried to put him on the potty. He cried and appeared to be frightened by this experience. I took him off the potty and he immediately peed all over the floor with my trying to catch it in my Target brand diaper - though a great improv tool for catching pee - it didn't really work that well.

I'm trying so hard not to have those sweet, sweet images of not buying anymore diapers from running through my mind. He probably won't be accepted to kindergarten because he still wears diapers. :)