Our Kids

Today the girls and I packed a lunch and headed off for a new adventure.  We went to the AZ Museum for Youth and had a great time.  Unfortunately my camera died after just one photo so you will have to wait until we go again.  They have a section called Artville which is a town for kids, they can touch and move everything.  There is also a craft room in Artville, a huge tree complete with slide, an underwater submarine with fish costumes, a garden with rows of veggies to plant and pick and many other active things.  Then there is the museum that changes with the seasons and right now is in an underwater theme with lots of colorful paintings, murals and other ocean related works of art.  After you have gone through the gallery there is a craft area where you can make an underwater themed craft.  We made fish on little fishing poles, Piper was anxious to try out the scissors and did pretty good, Lela was happy to draw away on her fish and glue little pieces of tissue on for color.  Both girls made beautiful fish and spent a wonderful two hours at the museum.  Definitely a place we will go to again, especially as it gets hotter outside.

Artville was a bit overwhelming for me because there were so many kids and Piper did get bullied a couple times by some bigger boys, but I guess that is all par for the course.  Overall they really started to enjoy themselves and as long as it doesn’t get too crowded I think it is a great place for them to explore and be around other kids under moms watchful eye:)

A lot of times when I come home from work, Piper and Lela are “nekked.”  For some reason they like to air it out in the evenings after a long day… who can blame them.  The nice thing about this is that it’s slowly getting Piper to have control over when she goes to the bathroom.  She knows when she needs to go, but usually she just starts signing and saying “diaper.”  Sometimes she says “potty” and sits on it for a while without doing anything, but that’s followed up quickly with a diaper where she finally has relief.

So it was this that we were expecting last night when Piper announced she wanted to go potty.  Mystique took her in, sat next to her on the bathtub, and was chatting with me when all of a sudden Mystique had a surprised look on her face.  And so did Piper!  Piper’s mouth opened in astonishment, her eyes widened with glee… she was going potty!  We cheered and clapped… even Lela was yelling “yay” with us.  Piper was so excited… she had gone pee pee in the potty!

She actually got off the potty for a little bit and asked for the potty again.  After a little bit of sitting, she peed again!  She was quite excited about that and ran out to mommy for a big hug.

There we have it… Piper’s definitely on her way to using the potty.  Whew!  Between running around naked, seeing Lela using the potty, and reading that darn potty book at night for the past five days, I think we may have convinced Piper to take the next step.