Outside Playing

We went to Target today and bought a new outside toy for Jakob. It's a combo sand and water table made by Little Tikes. I have been cleaning the balcony and it was time to exchange the toys anyhow. It came with the little castle and characters to play along with.












We also bought some Moon Sand, which is supposed to be easier than real sand. The reviews I read talked about how it is still messy...but it's still a form of sand! I would not expect Roland or Jakob to play with any type of sand inside! I figured we'll see how it is and we could even do play-doh in the 'sand' portion of the toy when it gets cooler (since play-d0 is cheaper than Moon sand). We ended up buying the Monster Truck Moon Sand since Jakob enjoys cars...he'll probably have fun making the molds and then destroying them!

World of Warcraft update

I have been enjoying the break from all the homework. In between work and all the chores, I'm still playing World of Warcraft. My guild, The Templars, now has a webpage. Jeff was playing yesterday with signature creators and I found it interesting. I made the one below using Video Game Signature Generator.













Overall, Evaelyn is now a 27 Blood Elf Mage. Jeff and I play quite often together. His alt character, Darkhide is now a 48 Tauren Shaman. He helps me out when I need to do something that requires multiple players if I cannot form a group.

Over the weekend, Jeff helped someone in the guild and gave him 40 gold - a decent amount of money in the game. He did it to be nice but it backfired because the guy starting whining to both of us for help and wanted Jeff to run him through something. (Running through means having a really high level to make it easier, rather than just grouping with a big group of same levels...he wanted the easy way out.) Anyhow, this became annoying and we talked to the guild leaders and they spoke to him about it. You are not supposed to beg or bother/harass other guild members. Anyhow, so Saturday night (Jeff and Roland were at the Weird Al concert), the same character asked me if he could borrow some money because he wanted to buy something expensive. I did a screen shot showing the text and then spoke to the guild leaders the next day. We sent it over and as soon as they looked at the screen shot - he was kicked out of the guild. Later he accidentally was re-invited by someone (who didn't know the story) and was kicked right after! What irritated Jeff and me was Jeff had just given him 40 gold and then the character who was a level 40 asked me (a level 26 at the time) for money! Made interesting conversation over the weekend though!

Jakob and the potty

Monday morning, Jakob woke up at 5:50 am. I heard him and was thinking to myself why are you up so early? So I was about to put him back to bed when I asked him, "Do you need to go pee pee?" He said, "Pee, pee. Yes." I was shocked because normally when this question was asked he would yell NO! So we headed to his bathroom and he continued to be happy. He sat down and after a short moment, he went to the bathroom! I was so proud and glad I hadn't put him back to bed. Later Monday evening, he also went to the bathroom before going to bed.

Yesterday morning, he woke up around 6:00 am and we had the same routine. He sat and went to the bathroom! To my knowledge, he didn't go at school; his main teacher is sick and hasn't been there this week so far. I suspect when she gets back it'll help his routine at school. Since he went again yesterday morning, we put him in pull-ups.

And today, 4th of July, he woke up at 6:00 am and diaperless! However we went to the bathroom and after a short moment, he went to the bathroom. When I found his diaper in his bedroom it was completely dry!!

My little boy is growing up!

Happy 4th of July Week

Luckily, there are only 2 more days remaining until Summer 1 is finished! Due to the 4th of July holiday, both of my teachers do not want to have to come back to school and have our finals on or due on Tuesday, July 3rd. I have done well in both of them and should finish with A's in both classes.

I have been busy working on school. I completed two text-set assignments in both classes. So you ask, what is a text set? The objective was to use a topic and then five 5 books, 1 video, 2 websites, and other resources relating to the topic. For my multi-cultural class, the topic was Individuality and it focused on being yourself. The other topic was more subject centered and focused on Weather. The differences between the two classes on the same project was one required a reflection of completing the assignment, the other required a lesson plan. Both will be useful in the future.

Normally for the July 4th holiday we go out to Lake Brownwood, but I'm not sure of the plans yet. I talked to Lana and Greg (my inlaws) and researched online and found Lake Brownwood was 3-7 feet over the spillway. Here are some pictures of the lake. The lake has been closed do to flood conditions. Portions of Thunderbird Bay (location where Greg and Lana's things are) are in that area, but are at higher ground. Lana said it is amazing to see how much the lake has risen because they were out in April and she said the lake was so low it would have been hard to get boats into the water. However, at this point we will go to Brady, TX on Saturday for a reunion of Lana's side of the family and then go from there.

I have also been playing more of World of Warcraft. I have really started to enjoy playing the game. The guild I joined had some problems and disbanded, but the members whom were liked grouped with another guild and re-invited me. I currently have Evaelyn (my main character) at level 22 on "The Templars" guild. This past weekend, I experimented selling things on the auction house. Majority of the items I put on the auction house sold which will give more in-game money to do more things later!









Jeff was on vacation this past week and I think he had a good week off. We didn't do anything major, but he was at the same point too - Use it or lose it. We did go out to eat a lot with him on vacation though, so I'm ready to get back in routine.

Roland is going to Abilene from that point until the next Saturday, July 14th. Jakob will join Roland the following Tuesday evening through Saturday, July 14th. He would have gone the entire week, but I felt odd paying the daycare $85 for Jakob not to attend when I could pay $97 for him to attend 2 days. Plus, he really enjoys going to school because they are constantly doing and making something! They made bird feeders, planted plants in baggies, made water shakers, and more this past week!