The Kiddos

Cole has been really interested in the potty and has been "practicing" a lot. Notice him "wiping" in the first picture. I know we won't be potty training for a while, but am glad that he likes to practice. He did go poop in the potty the first of February though. I am not sure how that ever happened. He refuses to sit on the potty without his clothes and will yell "No Potty, No Potty!" if he's naked.

And Miss Alyss....she was asked to go up to her room and get dressed. When she came back down stairs, she had this pink sweater wrapped around her waist with the sleeves tied in a knot in the back. She said "Mom, I want to have a dress JUST LIKE THIS, but not with my underwear showing." Yikes!!! We both went back upstairs to find a long sleeve shirt and long pants. We chatted about modesty and dressing for the seasons--as we have several areas in our yard still covered with 3-4 feet of snow!

Yellowstone Bear World

We heard on the news that you could go to Bear World for free and hold the bear cubs. You could pay 15 bucks for a picture if you wanted. They also said that Bear World had ten little cubs this year. I know normally admission for this place is pretty steep. I had never been, and thought the kids might enjoy it, and since we live pretty close, we decided to go. I knew it would probably be pretty crowed, but thought with 10 cubs to go around, we should get to play with one a bit. Well, the real story was that if you wanted to hold a cub, you had to purchase the picture. You could pick one person in your group to hold the cub for the picture and they took it away and soon as the picture snapped. The other people in your group, could pet the bear on the way out. With a line going out the door, they only had one cub out! It wasn't so bad for us because Cole didn't care that he didn't get to hold the bear, not because he was scared of the bear, but because he was scared of the lady holding it. He did pet it though. I am sure that families with several kids were disappointed at not all getting a turn. The cub was real cute though and we were glad we got to see it--We are loving that Mark is home more so we can go on little family outings!!!