The Big Plop

For those of you who are a bit squeamish about bodily functions, you may want to skip this blog post...

Rory actually pooped on the potty for the very first time today! Hurray! We went on a little field trip with some friends of his today and all of them were in varying stages of potty training, so I thought that a little peer pressure might work wonders. So later in the day, when I noticed he was doing "The Lean" as we like to call it, I grabbed him and threw him on ended up bribing him with a lollipop, but I figured if I could just get him to do it once, it would "break the ice" so to speak and lead the way to future successes (which is really just a fancy way of rationalizing my use of parental bribery - which worked, HAHAHA!- so criticizers be damned!) Rory was so excited when he heard that "PLOP!" sound in toilet that he immediately jumped off the pot to look at his handy work. Then he refused to flush beause he wanted to make sure that his Daddy got a chance to see his first big poop in the potty - and we all know how things like that can make a father proud!

So congratulations, Ro, on your first Big Plop! May there be many more!

Generation Gap

I was at the park the other day and I saw a group of young kids hanging out who were probably all around eight or nine years old. A parent walked over to get his daughter, and as they were walking away together, we all overheard one of the kids in the group say, "Yeah, I've got my razor with me!" The dad whipped his head around in alarm and says, "WHAT did he just say?" and the little girl looks up at her father, rolls her eyes and says, "Dad, he's talking about a PHONE. Duh."

Down on the Farm

This past weekend we went to the Underwood Family Farms in Simi Valley and Rory LOVED it. He rode a pony, climbed a pyramid made of hay bales, cruised around in a little John Deere tractor, and then got pulled around the farm in a cool cow train. It was AWESOME. We'll definitely be heading back there again soon.