{Summer FUN} Parks, Presidents, and Potties...

...yes, you read that right!

Sooo, today was potty-training day for little M...

and while M and I were at home doing this...

(teaching Bitty Baby Betsy how to potty)

Hubby took both B and L off to do a little of this...

this.. 

and this...

They headed to Spartanburg and stopped at one of Hubby's old college hang-outs, the Beacon Drive-In, for lunch...

After lunch, they headed over to Cowpens National Battlefield...

where they got to explore...

play...

and learn...






B earned another Junior Ranger Badge...

and they got their Passport Books stamped...

The last stop on their Sunday adventure was at Andrew Jackson State Park...

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...


Using the recommendation of 2 different friends from college with (at the time) 5 children between them, I used this book to train B and have since used it for L, too.

At first I was very skeptical, but the method used in this book, that was published before I was even born (in 1974), has now worked on all 3 of my little ones.  By lunchtime yesterday, M (who had woken up in a diaper) seemed like a pottying pro!


After a little more than 6 1/2 years, it feels really good to take "diapers" off of our grocery list!