Pizza with the principal, Potty & Muffins with Mom

 Max has thoroughly enjoyed kindergarten so far...he has his super days and he has some days where he just wants to be at home...but he diligently gets up, gets ready and gets on his bus which drives him about 1/2 a block to the school. 

You can imagine my surprise when I picked him up one day and he said he was sent to the principals office...he said his teacher gave him a note for me to read in his backpack...I wanted very much to riffle through his ninja turtle backpack and find the note immediately...instead I patiently waited until we made the four minute walk home...

I was happy to find out that he had been chosen to have Pizza with the principal by his teacher for being an exemplary student and example. I. Love. This. Kid.

 

 He's singing, 'I tricked you, I tricked you!'

 

 Then, "I get yummy pizza! I get yummy pizza!"

 This is his principal, Mrs. Searle, she not only served it...I believe she made it!

Here he is with two fellow pizza with the  principal attendees (all three are part of the Mrs Merlee preschool crew!) 

While Max has been having his adventures at school without us...the girls and I have been having some of our own. When I potty trained Max, he was barely two and had shown the first signs of being ready as he routinely woke up in the morning with a dry diaper...the force was strong with him and he had no problem understanding and wanting to be out of those wretched diapers. He also loved Elmo's potty time....and that was that...  

The girls are three and started sleeping through the night with a dry diaper about a year ago...but one was more consistently dry than the other...one of my first real attempts to potty train them was last summer, I had heeded the advice of many successful moms and just let them run diaper free in a contained area and would routinely put them on the potty...since I don't have a bathroom with two toilets...I had them separated by a hallway...after deciding that I would wait it out and that certainly my will would be stronger than theirs...Kiri finally said that she went potty...so, I left Lia on the potty in Max's bathroom and ran down to the girls' bathroom...after putting a diaper on Kiri and feeling defeated (as she had NOT gone pee and merely stuffed the toilet full of toilet paper)... Lia then came running down the hall yelling that she had gone poo...after cleaning her up, I went back to Max's bathroom to find the toilet: empty...following the scent I can't logically explain her reasoning for getting off the potty, wandering to her brother's room and defecating on one of his favorite books...and I was defeated...so defeated that I didn't even try again for 6 months....

Alas I was shamed into a second real attempt and surprisingly, it only took a total of about 10 days and they have never looked back!!!!

 

 Lia and Kiri conversing about where the poo goes after it gets flushed...Lia quickly answered, "with the ninja turtles!"

 Celebrating our outing to buy big girl panties!

Kiri got an array of princesses and Lia chose Kai-lan, Team Umizoomi, Wonder Woman
& a few princesses

 Muffins with Mom...being on the PTO has given me a real appreciation for all the goes into these activities...I love seeing Max enjoying and adapting so well to school...And I love muffins!