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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Wilderness Resort!


Friday morning. The boys waiting by the entrance to the wave pool water park a few minutes before it opened. We spent about a half hour at a different water park Thursday night, so they knew what to expect and were excited to get in!
Jayden is not so sure about walking in that water. I
Jack had fun on the little kid toys.
Jayden's thinking.... "if Jack's in there, maybe it's ok...."
"Ok, I'll go too!" Jayden played on the toys for little while but then he wanted to be held again.
Jack liked the little slides.
All of us in the wave pool. The boys liked it as long as I was holding on to them.
On Friday afternoon we took a shuttle bus over to the main Wilderness Resort building to go to a indoor play ground area. The kids loved it! and it was nice to do something fun out of the water.

This was a large climbing jungle gym thing with obstacles to go through and there were soft foam balls to throw around and all different way to shoot/launch them. It was pretty cool.

Jayden loved then hated it then loved it again.... but he did well over all.
Jack liked loading the ball gun and shooting it.
Climbing around...

After dinner on Friday we went to the waterpark in the main Wilderness Hotel. We had looked at it that afternoon and Jack wanted to try the bumper boats, so we told him we'd come back. Here he is in line waiting for his turn on the boats!


The bumper boats would have been more fun it the water wasn't freezing cold.... but it was an experience. Jayden did not like getting sprayed in the face, but he only cried a little bit and sat nice with me the whole time. Jack liked the start but didn't like being sprayed either so he ended up hunched over into Uncle Greg hiding his face most of the time.... it was a LONG 5 minutes!!!
Friday night - the boys were tired, and cold, so we had a little snack and put on our fleeces while everyone else finished up at the waterpark.
Coming home! The boys were great in the car going there and coming home :) Jayden was all smiles on the way home....
And Jack took a little nap before we stopped for lunch at a Subway near Lake Mills.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

new trucks!





On Sunday afternoon Jack got a new firetruck (it makes noise!) from Grandma & Grandpa B because they were so happy he went poop on the potty! I told Jack that if he pooped in his pants it would be taken away, and not returned until he went on the toilet again.....

So far he as lost it once (on Monday afternoon) and had it returned on Tuesday evening. He loves it! And Jack has been very good at sharing all his new and old trucks with Jayden so that they can play together :)

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Jack's Treats!




Jack has been really good today! He had been helpful and pretty nice to everyone, and he pooped on the potty TWICE! Once before we went to the library for craft time and one before we went to Chilly Fest.

So he got some treats this afternoon. After we were done walking around at Chilly Fest I took Jack to the Dollar Tree store because he wanted a toy for pooping.... he found a dump truck and a bulldozer - perfect! and cheap!

Then we went to McDonald's for ice cream because all week I have been promising him ice cream if he pooped on the toilet. This was Jack's first time ever to McDonald's. He said he liked it... and he enjoyed his sundae :)

Way to go Jack!!!!!

Chilly Fest with Jack!



This afternoon while Jayden was napping I took Jack to Chilly Fest here in the Falls. We checked out some really cool ice sculptures and had fun walking around "downtown"!

Craft Explorers at the Library!

This morning the boys and I went to a free program at the library called "Craft Explorers". It was lots of fun. It was in a back room and there were 4 big tables set up - one for cutting, one for glitter, one for gluing, and one for coloring. And there was a giant roll of paper in the middle on the floor for coloring. The boys had a great time!

We got there a little early so we looked at books and did some puzzles. The boys have never been to the library before, and they loved it - although they did get a big wild with excitement. I'll take Jack again soon, without Jayden so he can check everything out again!
coloring!
gluing!

glittering!


cutting!
Afterwards we read a few books inside the giant tree house thing.
All the boys artwork!

Birthday Morning!



This morning we started my birthday with some Nino's Cinnamon Rolls and presents! The boys got me a Barnes & Noble gift card, two giant bottles of Blood Orange Olive Oil for Napa Valley (brownies have already been baked), and a fine selection of good smelling lotions & soaps from Bath & Body :)

That cinnamon roll is better than any cake in the world - I think that will be my birthday treat of choice from now on.....

Boys Cooking





Wednesday, February 15, 2012

2-16-12 Jack pooped!

Jack POOPED on the toilet at Miss Leanne's house today. As soon as I walked in the door to pick him up he walked out of the bathroom and said "come on mom, look what I did, I pooped in the potty!"

I think he's going to get some sort of treat tonight!!!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Valentine's!



This afternoon Jack & I packed out our Valentine cookies with the Valentines we put together yesterday to take to his friends at Miss Leanne's house. They are having a little party


tomorrow and doing a special craft project!

Birthday!

Yesterday we went over to B's to have my birthday dinner :)


The boys played very nicely with the train and Grandma's pots.
Jack helped me open my presents!


And he helped me blow out the candles on my delicious Carolina Cake :)


Then Jack tried to put on my new pajamas....

I put them on when we got home, they are super soft and cozy and warm!