Indoor Camping

| June 26, 2012

Sam is a very lucky little girl.  Every day that she stays with her Grandmom and Poppy, her Poppy gives her $3.00 as an allowance. She gets it any day he sees her actually.  So, she has been building up quite a little bank account, which is what we wind up doing with the money.  At some point, when she is older, I am sure she will want to spend her loot, but for now, we are happy we get to put it away for her.  Recently, Poppy got lucky playing the lottery — he won when the number that he asked Sam to pick out hit — two days in a row!  He gave me some money to let Sam buy herself a toy, whatever she wanted.  This time, she was going to get to spend her dollars.  So off we went to Toys R Us.  Sam had such a hard time picking something out, which was surprising.  Finally, Grandmom had the brilliant idea of a tent.  Sam is always asking us to make her a “castle” out of couch cushions, so it seemed perfect.  As soon as we got home, I put it all together.  Sam had so much fun!  She is always in there, and keeps asking me to come it too (it is quite an adventure, but I manage to get in by plopping the tent over my head).  Here she is enjoying her new hideaway.

We’re making progress!

| June 26, 2012

Today Sam actually went potty at my mom’s house!  She has never gone for anyone else but me.  In the last few days she has been asking me more to go.  A couple of times this weekend, she actually woke me up in the morning and told me she needed to go to the potty.  So, it’s slow, but it’s getting there.  There are some days she will go more than once, and some days, not at all.  But today I think was a big deal.  She actually went for someone else.  Maybe she is getting there, maybe not.  I am not going to push, and I am not really in a huge rush for the process to be done, but there are some days that she seems so into it that I get a little bit excited that she has made the decision to ditch the diapers.  I have a feeling, though, that those good folks at Pampers are going to be getting a little bit more of my hard earned money for a while.