Happy Trails and Happy Meals

Beauty in the Common Things: Having clean language. I'm not saying I'm perfect when it comes to appropriate language but compared to a girl I had to deal with today, I am a saint! These teenagers and their fowl language is absolutely driving me crazy lately. Makes you think twice what they hear at home.

Listen In: Grant is using his Leap Frog Tag Jr. and I am catching up on Oprah. Not even sure why I'm watching this episode...its making me angry.

Dinner Plans: Homemade Lasagna. Hmm, I think I put a little too much garlic in it.

Never mind, all I taste is blood now. My son just busted my upper lip from being too rowdy. Oh my...

Besides Grant being a little rowdy sometimes, he is always very sweet and quite funny. (side note: He knew he hurt me right away and apologized). One day Grant was playing in his room and I found that someone was getting ready for another flood...apparently led by the cows. I tried to get Noah in there with them, but Grant insisted he stay seated in the school bus!


Grant and Daniel had a night together recently while I went to play Bunco. Daniel decided it was time for Grant's first Happy Meal. That was ok by me, because I didn't have to eat it...I can't stand McDonald's! But I do love both of my boy's expressions...haha!
We have some great friends in town that I don't get to see often. I used to babysit their two girls. Now they are growing up and don't need me anymore, but now they get to keep my son! They have a great stocked pond, so we thought it'd be nice to visit and fish. Grant has a pole and really just likes to throw it back and forth in the water.

I got Grant some rubber boots because I knew it'd be really muddy...glad I did! He loved his frog boots! Grant is here holding his new rubber snakes he got as a reward from going on our latest adventure...potty training! See below.


Random cute picture of Grant and his older buddy Sean. We ate at the haunted Catfish Plantation and I couldn't resist taking this.

Ok, so back to the potty training. Grant has not been interested much at all about it, but we decided to buckle down last weekend and put the plan into action. So far he's doing fairly well, but we still have a ways to go.

Daniel designed this adorable Thomas the Train potty chart. 1 sticker for using the potty and then 5 stickers gets him something from the grab jar.

The grab jar is stocked with dinosaurs, cars, snakes as well as other animals, and dum-dums. All a little boy could want!