Dance and Potty Pics

grace dance 2010

Rainbow Connection Dance Competition

Grace had her second competition down in St. Charles IL over last weekend, March 19-21st. It was a long morning to say the least. Grace had to perform at 8:00, 9:30am and then had awards at 1:00pm. Her group did great earning a Platinum award for Jazz and High Gold for Tap. There tap number I thought was the better of the two but they were both great. We were able to go to the hotel that afternoon and enjoy some down time with the team with swimming and pizza. It was great to get to meet some of the other parents and get to know one another!!

Potty Success!!

Well, I think I am able to say that Owen is officially potty trained!! Lets see, he told me one night as I was putting him to bed which I believe was Monday March 9th that he wanted to go on the potty and wear big boy undies. I told him that we could do that and start right away in the morning. Well, about 5 min. later he came out of bed and told Aaron he had to go, which he did!! The next day we put undies on. We had a lot of cleaning up to do that day but we didn't give up!! By the end of the week he somewhat had the hang of things but going #2 on the potty was still a chalenge. So, as of today in the last week and a half we have only had a few accidents here and there. Most of the time it is when he is busy playing outside. It sure has been nice not having to change poopy diapers or buy them for that matter!! So happy this is under our belt before summertime!!
On another note. We went to the grocery store today and Owen called some old lady Mrs. Potato Head. I think she was hard of hearing and couldn't tell exactly what he said. She just said your sure right, laughed and kept moving!
I also heard him talking to himself at the store while in the produce section. There was a baby making some noise. I heard Owen say, "Its ok baby, don't cry. Are you hurt baby? Im a doctor, I can help you baby. What hurts baby? Your head? Let me see baby. Ohh, baby you will be ok, Im a doctor and I can fix it." What a ham!!

Owenisms

A couple of weeks ago I had a meeting at work and had to take Owen. I brought along the DVD player so he could watch Toy Story during the meeting. Just yesterday Owen came in with Dad while Dad got his hair cut. My boss, Anita asked Owen "Where is your Toy Story?". Owen replied "Its in my pants", and started to pull his pants down!! Well, Anita didn't know it but Owen was wearing Toy Story underwear!! Well Owen that's one way to pick up the ladies ;)

Ski Trip 2010

This last weekend was our annual ski trip to the UP, our 7th consecutive year! It was a really fun trip as always! My Mom was able to be with us this year and experience the weekend with all 8 of us! We stayed at the cottage with her and Tom this year as usual. We brought Owen and Grace along and Owen stayed behind with Grandma and Grandpa while Grace decided she wanted to ski with us both days! We started out on Friday at Blackjack and I took Grace down a small hill where she had quite a tumble and was having a hard time finding her balance afterward. We decided to get her a 1 1/2hr. lesson. About 45min. into the lesson I caught up with her and she was cruising down the hill with comfort and ease. There after she didn't want to stop skiing. The second day we went to Indianhead where she skied right along with the whole group even venturing down some black diamond runs with the boys!!
We had beautiful weather for the trip 40 degrees and sunny! It was so nice I couldn't even stand to wear my ski jacket and wore a light weight spring coat! The girls and I enjoyed a couple pitchers of beer out on the sun deck of the bar at the bottom of the hill on Saturday and I really felt like I was on vacation!!
We all made it home in one piece from the two days of skiing. Aaron won the trophy for the 3rd time in 7 years. He took a nice tumble racing Joe down the hill for a beer!! I had one fall trying to do my thing in the terrain park! As always we enjoyed all being together again along with many stories to tell in the future!!