Preparing for the Potty.....

It's that time in the Willard house. As of April 1st we will start potty training Crew. Kyntli was such a nightmare I bought a book this time. Potty Training Boot Camp. My plan is to do it on my 5 day stretch of being off work. We are in what the book calls "Prep Mode". We are watching Elmo potty shows, he is going to the bathroom with me and his sister where we explain what we are doing to him. Kyntli loves being "the teacher." So far everything is going as planned. This past weekend he said "poo poo" and I looked in his diaper and he had just went. So I think the potty wheels are starting to turn! I am very stressed over this and just want it to go better this second round. I guess we will find out soon enough!!! Stay tuned.................

Spring is in the air

Oh how I am ready to get outside and stay there. We have had some nice teasers the last couple of weeks. This Spring/summer/fall we are planning to update the outside of our new house. We have done some work to the inside, but are SO excited to get the outside settled. So I amgoing to post some of the before pictures and keep posting as we get things done. Noah and I dug out one small tree and 4 dead shrubs from the front. I am no green thumb, but excited for the blank canvas. We recently had 5 trees removed from the yard. One was just to the right of the front door. It was a nice tree, but completely covered the front door and hid the house. In the back yard we had 3 evergreens removed from the left side of the deck. We have plans for a new deck and we are going to make it a little bigger than the original, so we needed the expanding room. We had one more removed from in between the brick outlines. It basically had no branches left and blocked the view. Our first house had hardly any yard, so I am just so excited for cookouts and play time. The pool should be open sometime mid-April to early May. We are going to convert it to a salt water pool. The pool is a very new thing to me, so I am going to have to learn how to take care of it. If anyone has any experience with the pool thing, or salt water vs. chlorine suggestions and opinion are welcome!