So it's been a while since I've posted last.  That's because the Thompson family has been busy.  Busy with potty training!!  Yes, fun times(I guess you can call it that!).  No, Miss O has done pretty well this time.   Let's not talk about the first attempt.  This time we are using bribery.  Yes, M&M's seem to be the missing link of the potty training process.  The strange thing is, she loves the brown ones!  Who loves brown M&M's?!?!  I guess my daughter does!  I think there's only 2 left.  Anyway, she is doing well.  Yesterday and this morning she didn't have an accident!  And she even told her teachers at MOPS today that she had to go potty!  She did have a slight miss this afternoon but she is learning after all and I feel we may be able to take short trips again.  Being stuck in the house all week is the pits!  Thank God I have a wonderful husband who was able to stay home with the children on Thursday AND Friday nights last week so I could get out and have some grown-up time away from the potty chair!  Anyway, that's the update on our life.  Not very exciting.  And I don't have any pictures- you won't want to see them anyway! :)
Here are a few random ones from last week:
It was vacuum day so all the dinning room chairs were in the front room.  Of course the clean sheets from the day before were still on the couch so I decided we needed to make a tent:

I think this next one is funny.  O was sleeping one afternoon and J was not.  I went to go get a cup of ice water and dropped an ice cube.  J decided he was going to chase it around. 

Did I mention he was chasing it with his nose/mouth? :) How does he bend like that??

He did finally get it.  Then I took it away from him because I thought he might swallow it.

Good thing I vacuumed that morning!
An update on my picky eater... I'm buying whatever I can to see if I can get him to put any food in his mouth besides Cheerios and Gerber Puffs and cheese(he added that one last  week).  I bought these "biter biscuits."  We didn't get them with O because she put food in her mouth(as long as it wasn't "wet") so I didn't know what to expect.  Well they are long sticks.  I wasn't sure what to do with them so I broke off pieces and put them on his tray.  All of the pieces went on the floor(along with the banana pieces and whatever else we tried that night).  Later that same supper I was about to clean up and just gave him the big part I broke pieces off to see how fast it would go on the floor and this is what happened:

Yes, he is eating it.  Apparently it tastes ALOT better if it's a whole biscuit stick and not broke into pieces.  I gave him a whole one today too and he ate it.  What can you do?!? :)
Last picture.  This is O watching Blues Clues last night. 

Fun times! :)

Have a great day!