Play Ball!

We took Katelyn to her first baseball game last night at the new Naturals stadium. It was a lot of fun for the whole family. Mike and Kim were given four tickets by someone that works down the street from them and we are all able to go. It was nice that Katelyn did not require a ticket. The Naturals beat the Traveler's. When we left the score was 8 to 1.





Oh by the way! Katelyn is doing really great with her potty training. She has not had an accident since last Wednesday which means that tomorrow will be a whole week of perfect pottying. We are so proud of her! She gets to start her new school on July 8th -- two weeks from today! We can't wait!

I'm a Big Girl Now!

We discovered on Thursday that Katelyn's daycare is moving to Johnson. This is very inconvenient for us and would end up costing us much more in gas each week. We made the decision that we would try to find a better preschool that was more convenient. I was lucky to find a preschool on my way to work that is even cheaper due to parent involvement. It appears to be a great school and has been in business since 1975. They are much smaller with only 28 students and I hope that Katelyn will learn more and will get more personal attention than her current situation provides. However, this new school does not accept children that are not potty trained. Diapers and Pull-ups are not allowed. I went straight from my visit to the new school to take Katelyn shopping for big girl underwear. I let her pick them off the rack, put them on the check out counter, and discuss her situation with the store clerk. The clerk was very understanding. She even gave Katelyn her own shopping bag for her new big girl underwears and gave her the receipt as if she had purchased them herself. It was a big day for her. We decided that night that there would be no more pull-ups except at night because she has still had a few nights with very wet pull-ups in the recent past. However, she made it all day yesterday at school without any accidents! We were so excited and she knows no that she's a big girl. She went and spent the night with Mimi and Poppi last night and didn't even want to take her big girl underwears off to go to bed. They had to put the pull-up on over her big girl underwears after she went to sleep. It was a big day/night for us with two big milestones at one time. This was the first full night she had spent away from both of us. It was kind of nice but definitely weird to not have a toddler in tow. We ended up spending most of the night shopping for father's day gifts and toys for her. She is in a very big learning stage right now and really wants to play with flashcards, read books, and do art projects. We hope the new preschool will help her get a head start before school.

The Date is Set...

So I finally discovered that the graduation date has been set. I will officially graduate from John Brown on December 20th. This ends up being really cool for me because this means that my mom and Hardy get to be here for Christmas. This will be the first time since before Justin and I got married that I have actually gotten to celebrate Christmas on Christmas day with my mom! I am so excited since this is such a rare occassion. Plus I will be really excited to get graduation over with. I imagine we will have a party and everyone will be invited. You guys know me and parties! :)

On the otherhand. Things have been relatively quiet lately. Katelyn has not been sick but my car has. We had to replace the battery and the alternator this weekend. I was able to get some homework done while I was stuck at Sonic on Saturday so that was okay. I have a final tonight so I have been studying for that but mostly Justin and I have been working. We have both been working overtime lately. I don't expect that to stop for awhile either so I guess for now we are just used to it.

Maybe we will do something fun this weekend so I can post some new pictures. I imagine we will since Sunday is Father's Day. Justin's grandparents are coming up so I bet we will have pictures from that. We really appreciate this since we can't afford to drive very many places lately with gas prices the way they are. I'm sure that everyone is feeling that pinch in the pocket.