Joys of Motherhood

Two blogworthy moments... I was working at my computer yesterday when I overheard the girls in the living room having a discussion. Here's how it went:

(Abbie laying on the couch watching tv): "Tori, get me my blanket with the flowers and hearts."

Tori: "Why? I don't have to get your blanket."

Abbie: "Please, go get my blanket right now."

Tori: "Get it yourself! I don't always have to do everything for you."

Abbie: *fuss/soft cry*

Tori: "NO."

So here's about the time that Abbie realizes its not going to work, she gets more upset and goes and gets the blanket herself, then comes in my room fussing. I thought it was great!


Blogworthy Moment 2: (Save the best for last)
Tori got a new book not too long ago called "Me and My Dad". Its a cute book that is fairly hard to read, but she's doing great. So she's reading outloud to me and gets to this one sentence:

My Daddy doesn't like it when I'm a menace.

She reads: My daddy doesn't like it when I'm a mean-a**.

I quickly corrected her and moved on the next sentence :)

I obviously couldn't help but laugh and thought to myself, "That's blogworthy!"

HOUSTON... WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

I thought that headline would have been perfect if I lived in Houston... Dallas is close enough though, right? Well, its day 11 of kitty training and we had our first "accident" today. It wasn't bad at all though. Here's what happened. When I first decided to try this, I put Tigger's original kitty litter box in a garbage bag, sealed it, and put it on the floor of the girls' closet, which is in the bathroom. Brad said that was my stupid move, and I agree it was dumb, but my reasoning was that I could easily get it if I aborted my experiment/adventure without any problem... so I had it handy. I told the girls to always keep their closet door closed. Obviously a three year old is not as dedicated to potty training a cat as an adult, so there in lied my problem. So, after "holding it" for ohh... about 20 hours, Tigger finally went on top of the garbage bag on top of her old kitty litter in the closet that Abbie left open. SO... I cleaned that up easily, and got rid of the old kitty litter box so that wouldn't happen again. I just have to say Thank You to Tigger for going on a plastic bag and NOT on carpet or on clothes. What a Relief! So she's spending the night in the bathroom tonight with the fan on to see if she can get it right again. She has been going number 1 in the toilet with water and a tiny bit of kitty litter at the bottom just so she can see the kitty litter, but no luck with #2 yet. Once she gets used to this we'll add more water for a day and then take away the bowl. I'm hoping this accident will be a one time thing, lets cross our fingers!

Day 9 of Potty Training My Cat

Okay, so I thought this would be hard, but this is the easiest potty training I have ever done! Who says Dogs are smarter than cats? I am on Day 9: She has been going every time into the toilet in her little dish with very little kitty litter. The next step? Taking away the kitty litter and putting water into the dish... We'll see how that goes. So far its been a breeze. I thought I'd include pictures just so you can get the idea :) And she is bringing me the bag of treats now so I can give her one every time she goes. What a cat?! And by the way, this is a picture of her on the toilet, not actually going... I'll get one of those later when I can catch her in the act :)

Our Moment of Fame...

Saturday Morning we decided to head to the Dallas Farmer's Market to see if we could find some yummy produce and get the scoop on the Farmer's Market. It wasn't as great as I had imagined it at all, it was smaller than I had imagined, and much more crowded, and not nearly the amount of free samples that I had expected. Darn. However, we bought a cup o' corn for $3.50 (What a RIP!) and headed our way through the next Produce area where we were stopped by a lovely reporter who wanted to interview our family. She said, "Do you mind if we ask you a few questions about the rising corn costs?" I said sheepeshly, "I don't know much about corn prices." She said, "Its okay, I won't ask you any numbers." So... she started the interview asking us what in the world we were going to feed our children if we couldn't feed them corn because its too expensive? I was all confused. All the sudden this horrible situation was being thrown at me, "No Corn?" And it just didn't make sense as she had all this worry and urgency about not having corn, so I snapped out of it and responded by saying, "Really, its not that big of a deal, rising food costs are costing us what, $20 extra a month? So What? So don't go out to eat one day or buy one less video game. Its not the end of the world. Its the media's way of blowing things way out of proportion." So she thanked us and told us to watch the news at 6:00 that night... so we went home, and waited all day for our moment of fame. I was all worried cause Brad said I was batting my eyes and doing some weird thing when I blinked, and so I was all paranoid. Well, no worries cause THEY CUT ME OUT! They didn't show me AT ALL! They did show Brad saying one thing in response to the question, "What are you going to do about no corn..." Brad's response: "Eat something else... like Broccoli, or Potatoes?" Isn't that awesome! I was just glad I didn't look stupid on TV :) And it goes to show how one-sided the media truly is, huh :)