It's a beautiful Day, Don't let it get away

Wow. Can I just say that I realized my kids have grown up all of the sudden? So this is what's happened in the last few days to make me feel...well...a little nostalgic. My brother Ryan and his wife Kim were in town last weekend, and Friday afternoon we picked Mitch up after school. There was a book in the car and I told Mitch to start reading to Ryan and Kim to show them how well he read...but he ended up astonishing me at how much he could read! I had no idea he could read so well, we're talking hard words that he read or sound out easily! I probably should be a little ashamed by this admission, I mean, I should be perfectly aware of his reading abilities, right? Yeah, I need to better about sitting down and doing homework with him. Anyway, I was really proud. It's amazing how enabling the ability to read is, there is so much he can now figure out for himself. In fact, just at FHE tonight, he was reading the words to the song we were singing, instead of just trying to go off of memory.

My other proud moment is I think I might officially be able to say that Elise is potty trained. And we're only on Day 4! I've tried before, a couple of months ago, but neither she nor I were ready for it. She couldn't quite make it to the toilet, and I couldn't quite handle all of the accidents. :) But I decided last Wednesday we were going to try again. She did really well, only a few accidents (and it was my fault, I forgot to remind her). Saturday and Sunday I didn't even try underwear, but this morning we were back at it. And except for an accident at nap time (I wanted to put a diaper on her, but she insisted on underwear), she's been dry! She insisted on no diaper again tonight...I'm sure I'll be changing sheets in the middle of the night, but oh well. If I can get her night trained now, she'll be the first of my kids to wear underwear at night.