7/21

I'm so overwhelmed with so much to do and so little time. I have a lot of homework assignments that I need to complete by this Wed evening, a slide show for the party, a photo album for the party, lesson plans for my own students, and the house needs cleaning. I'm starting back to work this Friday morning; I have Tanner's meet and great the same time. I'm not sure how I'm going to pull all of this off but I'm trucking through it the best I can.
Today, I went to my college campus and worked on the computer researching for my Sat presentation, then went to order the cake for the party. The boys had swim lessons today and did very well with that. Tanner had karate right after swim, he earned his second stripe on his gold belt. Way to go, Tanner! After karate we paid a visit to the pet store ( it is next door to the karate studio). Tanner and I fell in love with a tiny all white Ginnie pig (I never imagined that I could actually find a Ginnie pig charming) , I wanted to buy it for Tanner's birthday but a later call to Dane (for his permission) made for no Ginnie pigs in our future. sob sob...
Anyway, we left the pet store to get gas in the car and then off to In & Out as that was Tanner's reward for a great day and the promotion of his karate stripe. This made for a couple hours of Cole wearing underwear, not wanting to go potty at any location, and coming home with dry undies. Shortly after we were home, Cole asked for his undies to be taken off and promptly walked to his potty seat and deposited about 2 cups of urine. YIPPY! I think we are going in a great direction.