My Good Day the Other Day

A few days ago I tweeted about what a great day I had and that I would blog about it later.  Then I forgot.  So, I'm going to do it now!

Last week I was looking on my church website for information about getting Belli signed up for Sunday school in the fall.  I fell upon the information for their preschool program and on the application it asks if your child has an IEP or if they have any other physical problems that you are concerned about.  I figured if they had those questions on the applications then they might be willing to take Belli.  So I called the principal of the school (the school goes from preschool to 8th grade) and she was more than willing to meet with me to talk about Belli.

So I went Monday morning and it went GREAT!  The principal said she did not see any reason why Belli would not be able to attend their preschool.  I told her all of Belli's needs and without me even asking she told me all of the accommodations they can make for her, like having and area on the playground for her and other kids to play on that does not involve climbing on the equipment and setting up a different activity during gym time for her and other kids if they are doing something that is not safe for Belli.  She said the class sizes are small so she will be closely supervised and everywhere they will be going are all on the same floor within a close range so Belli would not have to walk too far.  All she wanted was a letter from her neurosurgeon briefly describing her condition and some of the accommodations she might need.

The only bad part is that there is a wait list so she might not be able to go until she is four.  But at least it's something!

Then to top of my good day when I got home from the meeting we went to Publix and Belli went in panties and didn't have an accident.  She also walked around in her walker while we were there and she did great!  And boy did she think she was cute stuff.  One of the employees gave her a balloon to tie to her walker and some random lady stopped her and gave her a sucker.

So that was my great day that I had!     

Conversation I Just Had With Belli

Belli:  Where's daddy?

Me:  He's on a boat.

B:  Where's Gigi?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's PawPaw?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's Uncle Justin?

M:  He's on a boat with daddy.

B:  Where's MawMaw?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's Uncle Smitty?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's Uncle Adam?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's Aunt Katie?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's Ms. Brittany?

M:  In Mobile.

B:  Where's Bert and Ernie?

M:  ......Sesame Street?

Talk about random!

Five Question Friday

Time for Mama M's 5 Question Friday.  I'm going to do my answers again this week instead of Belli's like normal.  I don't have the mental capacity to make up her answers right now!

1.  What do you think makes a good friend or friendship?
The other person is willing to both listen and give advice but is also able to take advice when given.  And they need to actually call a sister back!

2.  What is the last thing you bought and later regretted?
Probably my car.  I love it but I think I should have waited a little longer and I may have been able to find something with a higher MPG rating.

3.  Have you ever had a prank played on you?
Not that I can remember but I did play this really great prank on my big sister from my sorority.  It involved making it look like someone had just run into her car and having her run out of the sorority house to come see and then me and a few other girls hiding behind the cars with tons of water ballons.  It was awesome. 

4.  What is your favorite theme park?
I don't like theme parks.  I'm terrified of height so I can't ride the rides.  I can't wait to take Belli to Disney World one day though.  I've never been!

5.  Have you ever seen someone else give birth?
I've never even seen myself give birth.  So no.

Belliisms 3

Here are some of Belli's recent funnies.

On the way to The Bell Center for her summer class I turned up the radio to drown Belli out because her constant chatter was slowly pushing me over the edge.  After a few seconds I hear her yelling, "MOMMY!  WOULD YOU MIND TURNING THAT DOWN.  YOU CAN'T HEAR ME TALK WHEN ITS TURNED UP LIKE THAT."  Exactly dear.  Exactly.

The other day my mom and I were going somewhere and my dad was staying home with Belli.  I explained to her that we were leaving and that Granddad was going to stay home with her and she said, "Can Granddad go to?  I wanna stay home allllll by myself."  I asked her who would feed her and put her too bed and she said, "Oh...I'll do it alllllll by myself."  Right.  If she could do all that my life would be much easier!

Sometimes when she's going potty she will cup her hand over her ear like she's listening for something then she'll say, "I hear tee tee coming!"

At random times through out the day she'll say, "OH, I have an idea," and then quickly scoots away.  I have never figured out what the ideas are yet.

Hope you enjoyed!  It's not as many as usual but that's all I could think of.  Happy Wednesday!

I Bet YOUR Kid Can't Do This

This is typical thing with Larsen's kids but it's still totally weird.  I mean seriously.  It looks like she should be facing toward the bottom of the picture but no.  Her arm is just twisted around backwards.  She actually sleeps like this a lot.

Sickening

I've been going back and forth with myself on whether or not I wanted to do a post about the oil spill.  I think the reason I haven't is because I have such strong feelings about it that I can't really put it into words.  I feel sick every time I think about it.  I am angry, furious really.  It is sickening and heartbreaking and I have really been trying not to read to much about it or think on it too much.  But just a little while ago I went to msnbc.com and I could not longer avoid it.  This picture was staring me right in the face.

I cried.  I couldn't help it anymore.  It is completely and utterly ridiculous that no one can stop this.  I am furious with the whole situation and with BP for being so irresponsible as to have let this happen in the first place and then being horrible enough to be down playing this for so long and for not knowing how the hell to fix it.  They have ruined our Gulf for years to come.  They have ruined peoples lives because they can no longer work.  We won't know for a long time how many animals will die because of this.  And 11 people lost their lives in the explosion. 

Sickening.

Potty Training-Day 2 and Questions for Potty Training Mommas

Yesterday was day two of potty training and Belli is still doing really well with it.  She only had one accident early in the morning.  I told her when she woke up that I wasn't going to ask her if she needed to go potty so she needed to tell me on her own.  The majority of the time she did tell me.  She even pooped twice and told me that she needed to go.  I did catch myself asking her a few times if she needed to go but for the most part I let her tell me.

I wish you could see the excitement on her face when she gets her next letter.  I am so glad I had that idea.  I am also so glad that the box of letters I bought also have the lower case letters because Belli is already on letter V.

Once she gets through the upper case letters we will start on the lower case letters.

I do have a couple of questions for any of you who have been through potty training:

1.  After how many days were you brave enough to venture out without diapers on.  When we went to dinner Sunday night I put a pull-up on her just in case.  she stayed dry but I'm still not sure I'm ready to go out with just panties on.

2.  If you used prizes during potty training what happened when you quit giving the prizes?  Is there a process to slowly stop giving the prizes or did you just quit one day?  Right now Belli's sole purpose of going potty is to get a letter so I'm afraid that once the letters run out she might decide she doesn't want to go potty anymore. 

I would appreciate any thoughts or advice.  Thanks!