It's Potty Time! It's Potty Time!

Tom running free in his new underpants!



Joe proudly pulling up his new underpants!


Tom and Joe are for the most part POTTY TRAINED!!!! I never thought the day would come! Life is sooooo much easier now! Underwear by day and pull-up by night! M & M peanuts for tinkles and a starbursts for POOP! It is a family affair when one of them POOPS! We all have to go and look at it (even Peter). Peter then flushes the toilet while waving and saying, ""bye bye poop!"

I must go back a ways and explain how this day has finally come. Tom and Joe are infatuated with the garbage truck and recycling truck that come by EVERY Tuesday. Infatuated. INFATUATED! Every Monday evening, they help Brian gather all the trash in the house along with the recycling and then place it out on the curb for the next morning.

It had got to a point where we had tried EVERYTHING to get them to go POOPS on the potty, EXCEPT for calling the garbage man! Brian came home from work one Tuesday and told Tom and Joe that he had received a phone call from the garbage man at work today. The garbage man told Daddy that he was disgusted with having to drive around all day with Tom and Joe's poopie diapers stinking up his garbage truck. "Tom and Joe need to start going poops on the potty!" the garbage man adamantly reviled to Daddy.

The boys pondered on this incident and within a day or two I received a phone call at work from Joe stating he had gone POOPS on the potty! Then Tom got on the phone to tell me he had gone on the potty too! I just about dropped the phone! HURRAH!! Oh who would be so excited for someone to go on the toilet??!! ME.

Thank you garbage man and thank you Daddy for coming up with the clever idea!

Questions of the day

As I was laying with the boys prior to nap time, I was telling them when they woke up we were going to church to see daddy play the piano.

Joe preceded to ask me these 2 questions:

"Mom, is there a bathroom in the church?"
"Yes Joe, there is a bathroom in church."

AND

"Mom, do priests wear underwear?"

(Long Pause)

"Yes, yes they do."

ESL

Joe
"Tom what language do you speak? Do you speak English?
Tom
"No, Pig Latin."

More Birthday Pics

Tom and Joe requested a Thomas the Train cake from Target with LOTS of frosting! So here is the cake along with some other fun pics from the party!




Tom is on the left and Joe on the right! There were 9 kids that were 3 and under!! Loud, Crazy, and Chaotic.....Just the way we like it at the Vnak house!











We can't believe Tom and Joe are 3!! Where has the time gone!

Favorites for Tom and Joe include:

Places to go...Target and Home Depot

Foods they both like to eat...Grandma Vnak's homemade meatballs, hot dogs, mac n cheese, corn on the cob, frozen waffles, cold cereal, and cherries!

Joe: ice cream, peaches, raspberries and pineapple

Tom: yogurt, strawberries, blueberries, apples

Hmmm....I think we need to work on the veggies a little more.

Things they enjoy....
Going to the playground
Going on stroller rides and adventures with Grandpa Vnak
Playing with their cousins
Going for car rides and driving by the school buses and the fire station.
Helping pick up the rubbish in the yard and putting it in the garbage
Watching the garbage trucks and recycling trucks EVERY tuesday!
Watching Handy Manny and Imagination Movers in the morning
Playing with their Thomas the trains

Tom and Joe mom and dad are so proud of you and love you so much!!!



Sorry for the layout....I am still getting used to posting.

Purple Plate

Tom and Joe deeply covet a cheap plastic plate. They both have to have it to eat on. I though we got over fighting over it as they decided eventually to take turns.

Then all of sudden, about a week ago, they started "reserving" it by stating, "Thomas, the purple plate is spoken for".

And then Tom has a fit (said in a fake cry whiny voice), "Momma, Joseph said the purple plate is spoken for. Waa, waa".

"Yep, I've spoken for the purple plate Thomas. You can't have it."

"Daddy, Joseph said the purple plate is spoken for".

The end of the world as they know it, indeed.