Time Out For Women

There is a two day women's conference that is put on by Desert book and tours around the U.S. called "Time out for Women".  This is not usually my type of thing, but several women from my ward were going, and a few of them had gone in the past and really enjoyed it.  I decided to give it a try, plus it was a   weekend away from my child and husband, which was needed!  I was pleasantly surprised.  I am not saying I am going to be a groupie or anything, but I am glad I went and I did have a good experience.  Several of the women in the group that had previously been mentioned how the setting was much more intimate and done on a smaller scale.  This however, didn't stop us from waking up at the crack of dawn and standing in the line to be on the third and fourth row.  Even though we were the first ones in line, I wasn't about to fight the lady for the second row.  A huge group of women all with the same focus in mind is deadly and brutal.  I thoroughly enjoyed most of the presenters and the music was pretty good, though I enjoyed the violinist more than the singing group.  A few of the presenters talked about things I really needed to hear, and made me re-evaluate my life and the way I go about certain things.  All in all it was a success!!!

Feeding the Ducks!

It was a beautiful day, gorgeous!  For playgroup we went to a park that has a pond to feed the ducks!  Lucas loved this!  I bought a whole loaf of cheap bread, thinking we would never use it all, Lucas quickly proved me wrong as he eagerly used the entire loaf!  Those lucky ducks had a feast and were well fed!  He also enjoyed chasing the ducks and following the ducks around.

Still in Diapers!

Lucas definitely does things on his own schedule, completely throwing out the window any milestone chart that the "average" child follows.  This whole potty thing is just not happening.  We have tried, positive reinforcement (bribery) (this does not work, he just decides that he doesn't want a treat, he doesn't care), going cold turkey, even threatening him (he can't go to preschool without being potty trained and he knows it).  Lucas understands all of this, he understands the concept, he know that mommy, daddy, and all of his friends go potty, he even gives you applause when you go and has even offered us a treat as reward.  He knows when he needs to go, which is the frustrating part.  One time I was sitting at the computer, Lucas was playing with his friend, and watching an educational show, he comes up to me holding his diaper, butt naked and tells me that his diaper is dry, he went pee and poop in the potty and he would like his treat!  My thoughts are, "are you serious kid?"  I am not even going to try to understand, I am just going to roll with it.  Basically Lucas literally decides when he would like to use the potty, there are days when he says "I need to go potty" and keeps himself completely dry, and others when he refuses to try to go potty.  The conclusion I have come to is Lucas is going to decided when he is going to go potty, and hopefully it is before preschool starts.  In all likelihood he will probably start using the potty consistently the day he starts school!

Early Ultra Sound

(This is catching up on some things that happened previously, so excuse the timeline from being out of order)

Due to a slight concern regarding a cyst on one of my ovaries, we had an early ultrasound at 15 weeks.  So on March 19th we were able to find out that we were having (drum roll please!) another baby......................boy!  It's a boy!!!  When I asked the ultrasound tech if she would be willing to take a look in that direction to see, she was willing, but reminded us that it is difficult to identify this early in the pregnancy.  Lucky for us our children don't seem to have a problem exposing themselves!  And this child was more than willing to give us a good look.  As we were looking at the screen, Craig and I were pretty sure it was a boy, but the tech didn't say anything, initially, so we weren't sure, then she asked us if we were sure wanted to know, and she said she thought it was a boy.  However, by the end of the appointment she was thoroughly convinced it was a boy!  Craig is once again relieved and feels like he just dodged a bullet, again!

Snow!?!

It snowed!  In the middle of April and it's snowing!  I looked at Craig and said, "This is still Pennsylvania, right? Are you sure were not in Utah?"  His response, "at least it's not July."  It was very distressing, especially after the previous week, which was a heat wave and absolutely wonderful!  I went from wearing shorts one day to pants and a sweater.  We had soup two nights this week and I only have soup when it is really really cold outside!  I hope mother nature makes up her mind, so we can have a little more spring before it gets too warm!

Water Balloon Fight!

Another beautiful day!  Lucas had a mini water balloon fight with his friend.  They had lots of fun, and it was pretty cute to watch them, even though they were standing right in front of each, inches apart, they still managed to miss each other in their attempts to get each other wet!

Easter

Easter morning we attended church.  We were able to have dinner with some of our close friends, which was a lot of fun and seemed to make Easter that more special!  Lucas had an Easter Egg hunt with a few of our friends in the neighborhood, we had six kids and over a hundred eggs, Lucas made out like a bandit!  He is still talking about hunting for eggs.  Which is an improvement because up until Easter we were still hearing about Trick or Treating.  I figure we'll probably be hearing about Easter Eggs until at least the 4th of July.  We dyed Easter eggs that night.  Lucas did really well at this and was able to dye a few by himself which he was really proud of!  Lucas opened up his Easter packages.  Thanks for the all of the Easter candy grandparents!  (It is being used a positive reinforcement, when Lucas goes potty!)  It was a busy, but wonderful day!