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Day 2 of the movies thanks to Viggle. Yesterday we enjoyed The Hunger Games and today we're finally watching The Avengers!

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We caught The Hunger Games matinee, then ran errands around town. Cinnabon counts as lunch, right?

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We decided to head out a day early and just as we were on our way out the Sheriff's Helicopter came around for some training near our campsite. 

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We found some insects to use as fishing bait. Crickets, grasshoppers, helgramites, and carpenter ants all worked great catching fish. This wood scorpion however, proved to be very chitinous surviving several casts over the waterfall but not appealing to the fish at all. 

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Burnt marshmallow. In Bert's Honor. 

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Campfire baked brownies! Yum.

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First fish of the trip. Large. Yummy. Dinner.

A Day in Her Shoes...

8am
     If brothers haven't woken her up already I come wake her up. On days she wakes up before I get her often times she stays in bed for some personal time.

    Take her potty, after which she eats her two gummy bear vitamins and selects a Rapunzel for going potty (if she remembers). Brush teeth and get dressed (sometimes put off until after breakfast).

    Eat breakfast, play, read, run errands.

Somewhere between 11:30 and 2pm
    If we're going out early in the day we have lunch and then nap when we get home (as late as 3 and wake her up around 4). Otherwise, if we're picking up brothers we nap first and eat lunch when they get home from school. We always read 1 story before nap time and usually she chooses to read a 'silly' book. It just means either randomly pause and let her fill in the blank with something silly or you do it while you read. It's normally one of the "If You Give a..." series so it ends up reading like: "If you give a pig a....wallet!". "No, a pancake!" "... she might want some syrup to go with it...."


8pm
    Read a story, brush teeth, go potty, go to bed.

    She's doing really good telling us when she has to go potty, except anytime she's in bed.

    Still only a 50% chance she says when she has to poop. All successful potty trips (not drops every 2 minutes) get 1 princess snack. Doing more gets 2 snacks. She pretends to wipe and bends over so she can actually be wiped.

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Most of the gear to be packed. Most.

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After getting home with the boys we had a surprise knock at the door from a delivery driver. What an awesome treat this was!

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We walked the boys to school this morning then stopped to play in the park on the way home. She's such a joy to be around!

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3 water shooters from the dollar store + 3 buckets of water = hours of fun

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Tonight was a very cool annular exlipse but even though I was outside I forgot to look at it. Instead, I was getting more comfortable around our gun. One of the bullets we fired ended up in a box. It amazes me how heavy (and deadly) such a little thing can be.

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I inherited my Uncles AWESOME refrigerator. It fits perfectly and matches the rest of our kitchen- minus the orange walls I haven't finished painting over.

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Safeway had bread on sale for $0.99 so I filled my freezer with 15 loaves.

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She was so sweet and patient yesterday while we waited for Mr. Mann to see the doctor.

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Cliff was so excited when he found out there was finally going to be a Diablo 3 so we pre-ordered it for him.

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Last night the baby woke up twice because she had to go potty. When morning finally came we were super excited for the day until about 9am when a thumping led me to open my front door allowing one of my escaped cats to bolt inside. Turns out when Berty was fed this morning by the kids he didn't shut the door and both cats went outside to explore. So far, only Athena has returned. 

*Update 5.16.12
             I must have circled the neighborhood 30 times all throughout yesterday hoping Boomer would come when called- which of course didn't happen because she's a cat. Around 9pm last night she tried to come home only to get into a nasty cat fight with Berty and ran off again. Cliff and I went searching for her once more but cats don't come when called. EVER. Finally in the wee hours of this morning (around 4am) she came home and strolled inside covered in filth and stickers.

Next time she runs away I'm not letting her back inside....

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The Holy Grail of potty training: fruit snacks

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What a perfect Mother's Day for me. It started with breakfast with the family before we dropped the boys off to spend sometime with their mom. Then Cliff and I headed into Lowes to get some garden supplies. We then spent the rest of the day cleaning up our backyard and getting our new baby green put into the soil. Finish that off with family dinner (delicious leftovers care of great friends) and it was the most relaxing, perfect day for me.