Day Out With Thomas

So one of our trips this year was that we went to see Thomas the Train. My son LOVES Thomas. He loves the movies, pajamas, clothes, toys, everything Thomas. So since the tickets are fairly cheap as far as the tickets go for riding the train. We decided that this would be a treat for him. My daughter likes Thomas as well but was not as nearly excited as he was.

We got up to where Thomas was and my son was asleep. But not for long. When I told him to look out the window to see Thomas he woke right up. This was his face for about 10 minutes as he watched us drive by and walk by Thomas. I would say that is a better expression than when he opened presents at Christmas.

The Diesels

The Steamies

Sir Topum Hat

The Story Telling Tent. This was a little bit of a let down since the story telling was just nonstop Thomas episodes. Fun but Story telling was a little far fetched.

All Aboard!!

Getting their picture taken with their favorite Train.

All smiles once the ride was over.

An activity tent with train sets, coloring, and mega blocks
We finished the day off at Dairy Keen the Home of the Train. They got train whistles in their kids meals. The theme of the whole place is trains.

They even had a little model train running of Thomas.

All in all it was a good day!

POTTY TRAINED!!!!! And the Dentist!

So this is a double post.

I have had this Princess dress hanging up for months now. It is the prize my daughter chose despite showing her all the toys in the toy aisle. We started this whole process when she turned 2. In fact the exact day was New Years day 2009. We decided that we would start slow. We knew that with baby brother being due soon that she would more than likely regress after he was born so we thought let's let her practice for fun. We bought the potty chair. After having a frustrating day on the big toilet. We bought pull ups. Both things I was so not going to do but like I said we had a very frustrating first day and decided to take it slow. We bought panties that had princesses on them that she also picked out. We thought OK we are ready for when she is. She sat on the potty and watched movies. All in the name of keeping it fun and low key "for her". We had treats galore for every time she went so that she realized it was a good thing. Sang Old McDonald while she washed her hands, Had good weeks and bad weeks. Had a month where it seemed as though she gave up completely. Then one day I was scared out of my mind because she decided she was going to climb up the dresser and get panties herself and almost had the dresser tumble down on her. That day a month ago mommy said to her " If you think you are big enough to wear panties and get them yourself, then you are big enough to be fully potty trained". We haven't looked back since. About a week ago she started having no accidents and in the last half of the week started going on her own without reminders. So on Friday when she had her Dentist appointment I figured it was a way to reward her with her prize and make going to the dentist fun to.
At the dentists they fawned all over her. They told her about how princesses get their teeth cleaned with this special tool. They used pink princess tooth cleaning stuff. And she was a trooper. She laid there so big and said aww so they could clean her teeth. She got to pick a Princess spin brush and then also got a regular princess toothbrush for mommy and daddy to use to brush her teeth. She also got a necklace and 2 rings from the dentist as well as her special toothpaste.

Then Mommy got her teeth cleaned and while I had my appointment she was the dentists helper. She stood there and told me that it would be alright and patted my arm. She made sure that the dentist didn't hurt me too much. Here I thought she would be bored and I brought stuff for her to do and she never touched it except to take the already colored pages out and give them to the dentist. So far the dentist has been a good experience. We hope it stays that way.