Mr. A-Z Himself!!!

Nick and I had the pleasure of seeing Jason Mraz at a private show last night! It was so incredible! Here's how we happen to come upon these tickets. We're all familiar with facebook, right? Well, somehow a friend of Nick's from elementary school found him and added him as a friend a little while back. Earlier this week she saw that Nick "became a fan" of Jason Mraz, and told him that Jason was doing a private show for her work. Of course we were completely jealous. As it turned out, she ended up having two extra tickets yesterday afternoon, and asked Nick if we wanted them. So, Nick and I got to see my most favorite singer with his elementary school friend he hadn't seen in 14+ years. Crazy, huh!

It was an amazing show. You know how some performers just aren't as good live as they are recorded. Not the case with Jason Mraz. He is remarkable with words and his voice is amazing! Here's a video of him just before the batteries died on our camera (I could kick myself for not thinking to bring extra batteries). The sound isn't great, but that's because we were ON THE FRONT ROW, BABY!!! Oh, and a special thanks to my friend Jaimee, who watched our girls at the last minute. What an awesome friend :) I owe her big!

Milestones

Zoe finally got 2 teeth about 2 weeks ago. And it's about time, she's been gumming everything she can get her mouth on. On Sunday she was trying to bite Sydney's legs. Sydney was moving her leg around and Zoe was trying her hardest to grab it. Once she grabbed it, she bit into it like it was a tasty rotisserie chicken leg. Mmmm! (props to my sister Michelle for the great picture showing the two teeth)

Now the most exciting milestone of the month is...

SYDNEY IS POTTY TRAINED!!

It's been a long process. I've been so careful not to push potty training on her that it's taken about 5 months of trying off and on. I didn't want to traumatize her. Looking back, I think I should have been more persistent with it. I tried a few different incentives to get her excited about the whole thing. At first we did a sticker chart. That lasted for about 2 days and then she could care less. She would freak out when I said it was potty time, so we took some time off. Then we tried treats as the "reward". This time she would be okay with going when I said "potty time", but never told us when she needed to go. We had a lot of accidents, and that got us all very frustrated. So we took another break. Then we decided we should try a toy as an incentive. So I took Sydney to the store and we walked up and down the toy aisles at Target. I would show Sydney a toy that I thought she might like and she would get excited and I'd ask. "Can you learn how to go in the potty for this toy?" and she would say "No way." After going down every toy aisle, and threatening to leave without a toy, Sydney decided on an assortment of animals, seen here

The toys worked for a while, but Sydney just wasn't interested in telling us when she needed to go. Finally I took the toys away for a day when she had an accident and we haven't had very many problems since. Whew! I'm so glad it's over and now we can save the $50 a month we would have spent on diapers and wipes for her. Hurray!