Potty Time!

YESSSSS! Michael and I are no longer buying those expensive diapers! For the longest time I was thinking that Aaron was never going to be potty trained and that he was going to be one of those children that wore diapers until he was 5 years old.
Needless to say, he has proved us wrong in only about 3 days. I actually made Aaorn a "pee chart". So everytime he would use the potty he would get a smiley face sticker, and when he got seven smiley faces he would get a chocolate (his favorite). I truly thought it was going to take a few weeks to get him used to the potty and used to telling us when he need to go. We were so shocked when he would tell us, "Potty." I never thought I would be so excited to hear that word.
Another accomplishment under Aaron's belt is he went poop too; althought I do think it startled him a bit.
He's actually getting better when we are in public he will tell us he needs to go potty, but I'm still not putting him in his undies when we go out...just to be sure. So he still wears his pull ups in public. I guess everything can't come at once, but we sure are getting there quickly!!

Because I'm the mommy

I now know why my mom would say those infamous words, "Because I'm the mommy!"

Aaron has been asking, "But why mommy?" (it usually involves him asking for something he can't have at that moment or plain just can't have) I would reply with the answer that I thought would satisfy his curiosity. But I'm sadly mistaken. "Why?" I would respond with the same answer just in simpler terms, thinking that he just didn't get it. We end up going through 3 or 4 rounds of "why", and I just give up and say..."Because I'm the mommy."

I remember my mom telling me that and I would get frustrated and would continue to beg/irritate her until she just ignored me. 8-D But what does my son do? He asks, "But why are you the mommy?" I really don't think he's ready for the 'birds & the bees' talk. *sigh* I love my little booger.

It just irked me.

Today in my Administration of Justice class, we were talking about the "norms" of society. Well, the topic of Asian people eating cats and dogs came up and how American society views it as inhumane and highly unusual. There was a girl (Caucasian; LOL) that had said that a friend of her's had made her some dinner and she had asked what kind of meat it was. Her friend it was from Hawaii and it was Black Lab.

I, of course, had to put my two cents in and said that I lived in Hawaii for most of my life and that my family is from Hawaii and we have never heard of such a thing. She insisted that her friend's parents were born and raised there and that in fact, it was Black Lab! I just really irked me!!!

It just didn't sit well with me. Oh well, what can I say...at least I wasn't the one that ate Black Lab! Eww!!!