Friday!

+Dominick is going to be turning three in just 2 weeks and 6 days. He has been real fun when we bring it up. The other day we told him his birthday was coming up and he said, "Happy Birthday? Dominick get cake? Presents?" He totally knows what this is all about, but please don't mind me while I'm crying like a baby. THREE people. THREE! He asked for a red cake and as for gifts he said a train, a plane, a BIG HUGE RED DINOSAUR, a farm and animals. 

+I have started a new little gig to occupy some of my time. I had a couple friends ask me to design some birthday invites for their kids. More info coming soon. :)

+Next week my niece is coming to spend the majority of the week with me and then we will take her back to Michigan. I have so much I want to do with her, but I don't think there will be enough time. She will have to come visit us again soon. I'm taking her to see One Direction in Columbus (she's 10) and we will most likely go on a few other adventures while she's here. We will head to MI on Friday and are having a small family party (as in just my parents, one of my brothers and his family) for Dom's birthday and then Saturday we are going to the Kenny Chesney concert in Detroit. I'm pretty excited to say the least.

+When we lived in California our little space was in the middle of nowhere so getting anywhere was far and took a lot of time. Where we live in Ohio we are close to TONS of things and are finding it to be quite family friendly (don't get me wrong I pray to all things Holy that this is not our last stop along the way). We've spent a lot of our summer at the splash pads and it's been fun finding new things to do and places to go.

+Yesterday we were at the post office near our house and Dominick saw a man in uniform and started running towards him yelling "Daddy!" I told him it wasn't his dad and that Ryan was at work. The guy was in line ahead of us and Dom goes, "DADDY! What you doing, daddy? DADDDYYYYY!" I told him again that wasn't his daddy. He responds, "Oh. Daddy at work?" It doesn't happen as much as it used to, but it still does on occasion. At least this time it wasn't an older Asian man with a mustache because that happened too. 

+Dom's been potty trained since mid March except during nap and bed times (both pee and poop). When he learned how to pee standing up which was around May he started having poop accidents. He would legit wait until he would have his pull up on at nap time, we would lay him down, leave and about 20 minutes later would hear him yelling for me. Sure enough he was dirty. It's still been happening and he knows that's not what he was supposed to do and can even tell you where he's SUPPOSED to go, but it still happens. I told him that if he went in the potty five time I would buy him something special. It only took a month (probably closer to 6 weeks) for it to happen, but we finally reached five yesterday. Any suggestions? We make him "try" before nap and bed time, we ask him throughout the day and we can't "watch for cues" because it's when he's laying down fixin to take a nap. It would be entirely different if he was calling us so he could go, but it's already after the fact.