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A Walk in the Park

A few weeks ago, our friends David and Shannon of Locke Innovations Photography, who took Bobby’s and my 10th anniversary Beloved photos, took our family photos as well. We had the best time and they got some really amazing shots.

These two made me tear up:

And these make me swoon:

The most amazing thing about this shoot was all the wonderful shots they got of Sophie. Sophie was NOT performing – she cooperated for about 5 minutes until she realized what was expected of her. Then she just got crazy. She wouldn’t even be bribed with candy. (The girl will NOT be bribed. Very inconvenient for mommy.) And yet, they still got so many beautiful photos of her! I could not believe it! We are so thrilled with our portraits. If you are in Ohio and need photos for any occasion, I highly recommend Locke. I’m definitely signing them up to take baby #3’s newborn photos!  You can learn more about them at their website, Facebook page, or blog!

And now, tell me, isn’t my family beaaaauuutiful??

I love my family portraits!  To see what others love, check out Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries.

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Disclosure: Locke Innovations did not compensate me in any way for this post.  They just took beautiful photos of my family, which I paid for, and I wanted to share them with you.  Imagine that!

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Totally Toddler!

Totally Toddler!

Since I am in the throes of potty training hades, I decided to truck it on over to Babies R’ Us yesterday to get some of my FAVORITE all-purpose kid stain cleaner, Totally Toddler.  I somehow discovered this stuff when Joshua was a baby. It gets out anything and is gentle on furniture upholstery, and it smells really great!  I have been out of it for a long time, and the only place I know to buy it is Babies R Us/Toys R Us.

Happily, I found some 50 cent off coupons at Totally Toddler’s website and I printed 3 of them.  Then, when I got to BRU, they had a sign up “$2 off a $10 Totally Toddler purchase”. SCORE!

So I got three bottles o Totally Toddler at $3.29 each and one travel pack of Totally Toddler stain wipes for 99 cents.  After my three 50-cent coupons and the $2 off, it was just $7.98 with tax for all that!  MUCH better than I had expected to do, and now I am stocked up for the new baby, too!

I already got to use it today when Sophie peed on our living room chair. Good times!

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I Demand REPARATIONS!!!

Today has been a very trying day for me.  First, I had to RACE to the preschool I was interested in sending Sophie to next fall because Cortney (who is also sending her son there) was actually on top of it and you know, called to see how many spots they had left and it was not many.  So we both raced over there…and signed the kids up…and I really didn’t even have time to feel emotional about it.

UNTIL.  I realized that this now means I have a definite “drop dead date” on when I have to have to world’s must STUBBORN child potty trained, and then, I felt not just emotional, but SUICIDAL.

Potty training Joshua was horrible.  (Don’t believe me? Click here! or here! or here!)  So, I thought with Sophie, I deserved a break.  I didn’t push it.  I wasn’t going to spend 6 months trying to get her to go potty.

When she turned three, and started grossing me out, I decided it was time.

Then we tried some intense training with her, and it made all of us MISERABLE.

And today was another day in misery.  One poop on the floor, one pee in her undies during “rest time”, and now, at 7:52 PM, she’s been running around pantsless, spent more time on the potty than not, and has been holding it for FOUR HOURS at least. Update: we finally put her to bed at 9 PM, she still had not peed. So over 5 hours she held it.  And then we put her in a diaper for bed, because we have no mattress pad!  Guess what I’m going to get today!!!!!???

I’m not gonna make it.  She’s never going to preschool, or I will never see her go, because this is gonna kill me.

WHERE THE HELL IS MY BREAK????

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