Another week has gone by...

...and another week without a post *sigh*. This blogging thing really can be difficult to keep up on. But I shall press on...

So, let me start with a little fun. You're likely familiar with the motivational posters that have some cool photo with a word like "Teamwork" beneath it and a short catch phrase. There's a site out there that parodies this with De-motivational posters. The website is: http://www.despair.com. For instance, one of their posters is labeled "Apathy" with the phrase "If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us" and has a picture of a telephone with cobwebs all over it. They've just set up a way where you can create your own using your own pictures. So, I created a couple. One is a co-worker's new son who happened to be flipping off the camera when the picture was taken. The look on his face is priceless too. The other is of Joshua and Abigail in the wagon. Go to http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php to create your own.

Monday night, Danielle invited a bunch of women (neighbors, family members, etc.) to a Women's Christmas Dessert at our church. Sounds like it was a great night with a really good speaker. And the desserts weren't bad either. Danielle brought the rest of the cake home for me to eat (even though I think she was hoping for another piece). Here's a picture of her in front of her table. Isn't she beautiful?!?

Abigail is getting closer and closer to being able to walk. She is cruising so well now. I watch her going along and see how she navigates from one thing to another, such as from the coffee table to the couch and so on that you can see how she's gaining more and more confidence. I think she's really proud of it too. She's looking more and more like a little girl...and a beautiful one at that!


The big news of the week has been Joshua beginning what it seems to be potty training. Danielle and I are not sure we're ready to go through this, but it'll come eventually. We had gotten him an insert to use in the regular toilet because he had started showing interest several months ago. It seemed he was intrigued by Mom and Dad sitting on the toilet and wanted to do that too. But that was all it was. In the past week, though, he really started showing more interest again and this time, he actually started peeing while sitting on the toilet. We were quite impressed and praised him for it. He's also getting 2 M&M's for each time he pees in the big boy toilet. We told him he'd get 4 M&M's if he went poop in the toilet. Today, after naps, he went to sit on the toilet and nothing was coming. Danielle was about to just be done when she heard a couple "plops" and sure enough, he went poop. Kind of weird to think how excited one gets after someone takes a dump, but I guess these are the sorts of things parents get excited about.