Happy Birthday Jeff

We got Jeff this shirt for his birthday, and celebrated at Olive Garden. We got some great pictures of Lucas and Emma with Jaden on the real camera. We had a $20.oo gift certificate from JD and Dominique from Christmas that we had never used (how it managed to survive so long we have no idea) and this was a great excuse to use it. We move in 8 days, and school starts again on the 24th. We needed some time out.

So we went to Walmart afterwards, and Lucas has an "accident." Mom changes his clothes and 5 minutes later he has another "accident." Silly kid. He got in trouble for that, and we re-evaluated our potty training techniques. We always tell him when to go, and if we don't tell him, he doesn't go. Actually, he goes, just not where we want him to... So, I thought we should give him more responsibility and not tell him exactly when to go as often, with the hope that he'd take his new independence and run with it. Shawna disagreed. And it seems she was right. She has gone back to the reward system. Lucas loves stickers, and we used stickers when we started to potty train him. For today anyway, sticker rewards have kept him dry. He wants the stickers so badly that he'll try to go pee when he really doesn't have to. He'll push and concentrate so hard, and get one little drop out, and say, "I did it! I went pee in the potty! May I have a sticker please?"

It's amazing to me that he says "may I." I never used this phrase growing up. He sounds so polite and well mannered.