Adventures in Potty Training and an AMAZING local park!

Dear Friends and Family,

This past week I was running low on diapers.  I stood in the grocery and stared thoughtfully at the giant boxes of Luvs that I usually toss in the cart every two months, and then I looked at Will and I said, "Let's start using the potty!" His answer, "Uh, NO!"  Claire was also on board. She really wants Will to start using the potty...perhaps it's the m&m dish on the back of the toilet that has her excited? Regardless, we had a great team of cheerleaders between Claire, me, and Daddy.

Or maybe Claire is just a really great big sister!

Will loves his Sissy!

Will tried wearing big boy undies for 3 days. He even had success on the potty...once...in three days!!! (Ugh!) And then on Friday he had a nasty episode of diarrhea in the middle of the night. Luckily he was still sleeping in a diaper, but the next day he was still having bowel problems so we decided to buy more diapers and to put a rain check on potty training.  At least now Will is more aware of when he is going potty, but when I ask him if he wants to use the potty I get the same answer as when we started potty training, "Uh, NO!"

Look at this cute guy doing housework!  Does it get any better?!

Since we spent the week potty training, we either played around the house or went to the park. There is one park about 25 minutes away that just reopened after a huge remodel, so Claire and I invited her classmates to join us there for a play date.  The new theme of the park? Wizard of Oz!   This park is AMAZING!

Watkins Park!  (As you can see, they are even painting a yellow brick road that leads from the parking lot to the playground!)

Flying monkeys

Hot Air Balloons - The sign next to them says, "Kansas State Fair."

Claire climbs the Emerald City!

Dorothy's barn with a tornado shaped climber

Another view of the Emerald City - I mean really!? Did they even have a budget?!

The start of the yellow brick road

Toto's house

Munchkin land

Cute munchkins!

Group hugs!

After lots of playing, and looking around with our jaws dropped, we stopped for a picnic lunch. Will and Dellalyn sat next to each other and Will fought off Della's attempts to steal his food.  Finally he just gave up and started to feed her!

Della: "Ooh, Will! Now what are you eating?" 

Will: "Yogurt."

Della: "Mmmm...that's good!"

Will: "Here you go Della!"

After lunch we headed home for naps, but there is still more to the park that we are looking forward to exploring like a carousel, putt-putt golf, and a kid's farm.

I'll close by saying how much I love Maryland corn!  Our local farmer's markets is selling six ears for $2.25.  Chris and I have been picking some up almost every day.  Claire is also a big fan and especially loves to shuck the corn with her dad on the back deck!

Will joined the fun last night too!

I hope everyone is having a great week!
Love,
Bethie