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Potty Training

So Tuesday night after Kaitlyn's bath, she found some Dora big girl underwear. Of course I knew I was in trouble right when she said DORA and pointed to the underwear and then started taking her pants off. After trying to fight her about putting Dora on, I gave in and put on the underwear, but that was not good enough. She had to have 2 pairs of Dora underwear on. As we were putting on both pairs, I told her that Dora needs to stay dry, and if she has to go potty, she needs to go in the big girl potty. We went down and played for a little bit and then she said "go potty", so we ran upstairs in hopes this would be the time she actually goes potty in the potty. Kaitlyn pulled down her Dora underwear and sat on the potty for about 30 seconds, "all done!" she gets up and pulls her pants up. Then right when she get them up, she says "go potty mommy" so she pulls down her pants and sits on the potty for another couple of seconds. She stands up, pulls up her pants and then does the whole thing over again. We sat up in the bathroom for close to 25 minutes pulling down her pants, sitting on the potty and then pulling up her pants. I think I counted 10 times that she did this. What makes for a depressing story, is that not one of those times she sat on the potty, did she go potty. We sand songs, tickled each other, I even tried the squirting water down there, but that just made her scream. She has the interest, but not the knowing of what to do. We would really appreciate her being in underwear, it would be great on the checkbook!!

Rob's lay off

Well, the economy has finally caught up to us. Rob has been laid off for this next week. The whole plant shut down, leaving tons of people including Rob out of work for the week. Along with this bad news, came the WARN paper that is required by law to let people know that they may be laid off in 90 days. This is not saying that he will be laid off, but there is a good chance that it could happen. We will know the first of June whether we will have to move in with my parents, or if we will be able to make our mortgage payments. Keep us in your prayers that things will work out for us. I hope everyone is hanging in there with their jobs. This is not a easy time, and I hope that our new president have the knowledge to get us out of this slump that our previous presidents put us in.
Keep strong in this tough time.

Finally!!!!

About a week agao, we finally finished our plans for our Kitchen. Our old microwave, the one I had when I went off to college in 1996 finally died. That pushed us to go to Lowes and buy our stainless steel over the range microwave. We could not waste time, since we had no microwave to supply Logan with his microwave popcorn. Not the time we wanted to get it, since the US is in a recession, I guess we helped out the workers at Lowes, so then I feel a little bit better about spending money right now. Anyway, after having to take out some cabinets, we got it in and it looks great!! We are very happy with it. I was worried about taking the cabinets out, I was not sure where to put the alcohol that was up there. It turned out really good, because it made me reorganize the other cabinets and found ALOT of space!!! I am so lucky to have Rob, who is able to do these handyman things!!!
I LOVE YOU ROB!!!


Our new microwave!!!



What a mess

Bee Hive

Last fall when all of the leaves feel from our tree we found a bee hive in one of our trees. I told Rob I wanted it so I could take it to school. He said that when it got warmer, he would get it for me. Well, this past Saturday, we went out and spent the morning cleaning up our back yard (more leaves to rake), and Rob cut down the bee hive. Logan and Kailtyn thought it was really cool. We even found a dead bee that Logan thought was alive and was startled when we pulled the combs back. It was pretty cool!!!