The Magic Poop Dragon

We'll pretty much do anything around here to get Ethan to poop in the potty. It has become increasingly apparent that he doesn't have a problem pooping in the potty. He just won't do it. So what to do?

Ethan is crazy about dragons. We bought a dragon he's been eyeing for awhile and sat it up high in the kitchen. He was told that he could have the dragon when he did a #2. And that the dragon would go back to it's spot if he pooped in his pants. This happened several times. He was motivated about getting the dragon back, but not so much about continuing to poop to keep it. So now I've resorted to the dragon sitting the bathroom with him cheering him on. I even tell him that the dragon likes poop. Oh geez, the things you do as a parent.

Nic scored a huge whiteboard out of the work dumpster. Probably the best thing ever to enter this house. The kids love their large canvas. We use dry erase crayons to limit the staining on clothing and my carpet. The white board is also the only way Belle will do her phonics lessons whenever she decides she wants to do school.



Mr Ethan is growing up a lot lately. All the sudden he knows all his letters (uppercase anyways) and about 50% of their sounds. This is not due to my mad teaching skills. I have Leapfrog Letter Factory to thank. Here he is using a Magnatab that I got at the Homeschool convention. Great for his prewriting skills.

Flip movies

Well I cleared out the flip. Here are some movies I found.

Belle and Olivia serenading us at Jamie's garage sale.


Ethan sitting on the pot (whatever it takes to make him stay there) being cute. I was trying to get him to say the words he says that are cute. Like "fundader" (thunder), but he didn't do it.


Belle giving a tour. Don't watch if you get motion sickness. It's dark too. I love her shot of the "outside world" at the end.

Belle's Unicorn party

Well poor Belle has never had friends to her birthday party. We always end up in Ohio for the Strawberry festival and don't have a party in Indiana. So this year I had a play date party. We had everyone over during the week for a big party. I made unicorn invitations and the kids wore unicorn horns. I had even planned on making unicorn sundaes, but forgot to add the horns and they were left sitting on the counter. Unfortunately I didn't get a whole lot of pictures since I was running around.

The kids got to make magical glitter play doh, or glittery unicorn poop (depending on how your mind works)

If I only had a Heart

It's that time of the year again. When dance ends for the year. This year Belle took tap with Olivia Killingbeck. It was nice to see Jamie and Olivia every Monday.

The girls have been working on their dance routine all year. They were the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz. They all did a great job. Maybe I can get the video from Jamie and post it here.

Belle will be turning in her tap shoes for pom poms next year. She convinced me to sign her up for cheer. It's a class that does tumbling, cheer, stunts, dance and of course includes pom poms (the best part).

Strawberry Festival parade

Well we made our annual trek to Belle's birthday parade (aka The Strawberry Festival parade). We send the guys out early to stake claim to a spot so that the kids have a front row view of the parade. Everyone had fun, got lots of candy and enjoyed the show. We came back to mom's house, took naps, swam in the pool and then had dinner and presents for Belle's birthday.







How cute are these cookies that Tish made.


And we knew royalty this year. Emily Henry was Strawberry Festival queen.


LOVED the awning on the pool. My fair skin was appreciative.






We headed over the Freshours Sunday for more birthday fun with presents and dirt cake. We had two potty training boys so of course they peed in the grass. Here Waren thought it would be fun to stick a twig up Ethan's butt. Ethan on the otherhand is concentrating hard on what he's aiming at.


Speaking of potty training. We're doing fairly good. Not too many pee accidents, but we're having poop issues. He'll go on the potty, but only if you catch him at the right time. Just today we had 3 poop accidents. Not fun, especially considering I never went through this with Belle. He'll get it. . . eventually.