Potty Training: The Lost Archives

I just found these pictures on Ryker's camera.  They are from the end of November when we were still "supporting" Kya in every way possible to get her toilet trained!

Sure, let me get your milk and dinner off the kitchen table.  Doesn't everyone eat in the bathroom?

 

Sing to you?  We'll do you one better.  Let me grab a guitar and we'll have a little jam session in the bathroom.  You just stay on that toilet until you are done.

So now Ryker and Kya think I play the guitar and Kya thinks Ryker can play the guitar!

 

Potty party-ing it up!

Wave your hands in the air, like you just don't care!

At least she chooses things like blueberries frozen in yogurt and.......



Green smoothies in fancy glasses for her celebrations! 

Sunny Arizona

At the end of March I met up with three of my best buds in Phoenix for a fun weekend.  It's so easy to pick up where we left off, it's like we saw each other yesterday.  Some of us are getting gray hair (I found my first 3 right before this trip), some of us are going deaf (okay, maybe just one of us) we can't drink like we used to without feeling it the next day (but that's not necessarily a bad thing!), and we have to be responsible grown ups now.  But when we get together (minus the rug rats that are usually attached to our legs, sucking the energy out of our every move) it is like we are college kids again and boy are we some kind of AWESOME!  Yeah, we've still got it....okay so we may have stayed in a couple nights and gone home at 9pm the others, but we had a long day at the race track and one day we had an early Pilate's class the next morning, and we ate too much at dinner so we were tired, and the music was a little loud for us, and we had early planes to catch the next day.....okay so we might not still have IT, but we've got something that will last much longer than IT anyway, a lifelong friendship that luckily can endure longer than us out for a night on the town!

 

I actually think we're doing much better now, considering this is how we partied in 1999.  Prince would have been very disappointed.

 

Who lives in sunny Arizona and who lives in cloudy Washington? 

And I actually have some color already.  I flew in much more pale!

After we showed up some young pups on the dance floor, we headed back to our table for some Jenga. 

(Totally kidding about the dancing and when O'C asked another table to hand us the Jenga game, I think they thought she was kidding......but there she was, looking at them with her serious face when they started to giggle, so they handed it over.)

We hit the race track for some fun.  I was disappointed that they don't still have greyhound racing, but don't worry, it ended up being my lucky day as they were racing another type of animal.

First race, big winners!

Either the hat is lucky or she summoned her cowgirl days because Carrie was the big winner for the day!

We were outside for the first part of the day and moved inside later on to a table right up front by the windows.

Of course, I had to run back out for the CAMEL races though!

And for the OSTRICH races!

 

 

Kasey won the best swim suit award. 

Justin wins the award for the most times shaking his head at us and saying, "You guys used to be fun."

Thanks for the great time.  You are great hosts, Mosley's!  I was questioning your decision to make Kara and I sleep in the same bed, but we needed that special time together...you knew what was best for us before we did....  Next time turn your alert tone off O'C so I don't have to lay there racking my brain of all possibilities of who just whistled at 5am! 

Card Collector?

Bet you don't have this one!

 

March House Guests

Kara, Nikki, Grandma Patti and Kya on the Tommy Thompson Trail.

We headed to Seattle for a much anticipated visit to the Space Needle.  Ryker and Kya had been talking about it for weeks.

Yep Kya, we're going all the way up there!

Smashing Space Needle pennies

Monkey see....

Monkey do!

You can see all the kid's favorite things in this one photo.  Both stadiums, the ferry, the big cranes, and the Farris wheel!

 

The restaurant slowly turns around and even though there was plenty of room around our table, Ryker kept ending up at the table next to us.  He didn't realize he was moving until he was bumping into the guy's chair in the picture.  He looked out the window a lot of the time and I kept having to tell him to come back to our table.  He seemed a bit confused every time he had gotten so far from our table. 

Pretty happy about his pickle

Done eating and back to his post at the window.

Waiting for dessert

Here it is!  The Lunar Orbiter!

Super fun

And delicious!

So good, you need two spoons.

Elevator ride back down

Next stop:  Pike's Market

Throw some fish man!

Pit stop at the Tulalip Outlet Mall on the way home.

Puzzle time

Kara, get to work!

The day before St. Patrick's day, we had rainbow waffles with whipped cream clouds.

Nikki's birthday party

Dinner and cake then off to the Edison to watch Smokewagon.

When we got home, we got to work on the Leprechaun mischief!  We set these blinking fairy berries out around the house, tripped all three of the traps, turned the toilet water green, put clover stickers and Leprechaun tracks around the house, and some other nonsense.  I'm a bit over board, I know, but it is sooo fun!

 

Finding the fairy berries in there trap.  They saw the glowing coming out of the hole and thought they had a Leprechaun.  They wanted me to look in there first and neither would stick there hand in there until I convinced them there was no Leprechaun inside.

Everyone ended up with mustaches and silly socks.  Even Hippo and Eeyore had them.  I guess if you already had a mustache like Seth they give you a uni brow!

Kara's glasses were missing and these were on the nightstand instead!

Ryker's treasure chest was missing and there was a treasure map and note left in it's place.  For those of you that aren't up on your Leprechaun history, the story is that if you catch a Leprechaun, they will give you their treasure.  They left a note that said if we were going to try to catch them to get their treasure, they were taking our treasure (AKA Ryker's chest filled with lots of important kid crap!).

We got right to work following the map.  The first stop was the car trunk where we found a small pot of gold coins.

Kara still can't see.  I wonder where those glasses are?

Great socks they switched you out for!

Next stop:  Cosmos' dog house where we found some green Gatorade.

Hmmmmm.....let's check the map.

I think the leprechauns need to work on their map drawing skills for next year.  Yeah, it looked like our property, but maybe next year they should use our actual site plan or better yet, the new landscape design we just got.  I better go have some copies of that made.  I can see myself needing it many more times over the years.

Last stop:  Play set!

X marks the spot!  We found it!

All our stuff back including Kara's glasses and a lot of fun St. Patrick's Day stuff!

Those little green Taggers got our oven, mirrors, and windows!

This trap is Kya's.  You figure out how they were supposed to get trapped.  She has quite an explanation for it, but I'm still not seeing it.