A couple weeks ago, I took Mads to the pediatrician for her annual exam. Everything was going fine until I was asked, “So, how’s potty training coming along?” Um, it isn’t. I then explained that Mads was using the potty just fine at day care, wears pull-ups at day care, but once she gets home – nada. The MD told me that we needed to be a bit more proactive at home. Later that day, I found a Hello Kitty themed potty chart (she’s not into Hello Kitty, yet – but she loves Sagwa, so we just run with that) and dug out some stickers to use as rewards. Though it’s easier when we’re home all day to enforce this active potty-training, the weekdays are working out fine, too. So, she gets one sticker to put on her chart for #1 and two (!) stickers for #2. Lately, she’s only been able to do #1, which is fine – people are telling me that #2 will take longer to master. Until the other night. She started to make “the face” and I rushed her to the potty. Before you know it, she’s saying, “yucky!” and yup, #2 in the potty. I praise her, hug her and give her two stickers for her potty chart. Now, she’s no fool. She tells me, moments later, that she needs to go #1. So she sits on the pot and after a minute, she says, “good job!” and asks for a sticker – nothing in the potty. I try to explain to her that if there is either #1 or #2 in the potty, then she can have a sticker. I think she understands as she didn’t ask for a sticker after that.
Getting cultured…
We all got our dose of culture recently at the Dale Chihuly exhibit at the De Young museum. The exhibit itself was really awesome (sorry for lack of a more refined word) – even Mads seemed to enjoy most of it. It was my first time in the new museum (I know, shame on me!) and wow! Amazing! We also got a neat view of the living roof on new Academy of Sciences across the way from the tower. (The Academy re-opened last weekend, but I think we’re going to wait a bit – but looking forward to it!)
Getting sprinkled…
Finally the bay area has it’s own Sprinkles. By the looks of it, they may not open shop in SF, but as long as I’m working in Palo Alto, their Stanford location is fine by me. You can read my review here.
Getting cheeky…
So, I’ve got this coworker that just stunned (maybe not stunned, more like, confirmed his personality) me the other day. Background story: Valentine’s Day was coming up and we all got to talking and this guy was saying that he’s advised his son to give valentine’s to all the girls in his class so that he’ll have options. Okay, practical, I suppose. However recently, we discovered (loudly) that his ringtone is a Madonna tune and it wasn’t until then that I noticed his most interesting cufflinks.
Not sure if I had a point with this story, but I felt the need to mention it.
Getting fried…
This past weekend was the 6th annual Fry Party. I think the party was smaller this year, which was nice. Of course, the deep-fried cheese curds were exceptional, as were the fried pickles. Team Kellybean didn’t enter the competition this year – maybe I’ll get my stuff together for next year – no one fried my ideas this year. Anyways, we enjoyed everything from deep fried Wontacos and deep fried Banana Split sushi to Fried brie with jalapeno jelly and battered and deep fried chicken tenders sandwiched between two jelly doughnuts. Evil. Maybe next year, I’ll just bring the Tums.
Etc.
Celebrated my mom’s birthday at an old haunt – the Mr. and I had our first date here.
Mads’ Halloween costume arrived.
Quote for the day “From the LA Times: ‘I guess the only difference Between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney is…lipstick.’”
Loving Santogold right now.
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