Celebrate!

For our small group we chose a parenting study this year instead of a marriage study and one of our recent chapters was on celebrating. 

Well last Thursday we did some big celebrating around here.  For over a year now Bug has had the incentive of a “surprise” if she could keep her Pull-up dry five nights in a row. 

I have never pushed the issue because she is pretty motivated by incentives and since she is rarely dry more than one or two times a month I figured her bladder just wasn’t ready.  But then all the sudden about a week ago she was dry two nights in a row (which hasn’t happened since we were in Texas and I’m pretty sure that was because it was so hot that she was dehydrated, haha) and then three, four, and we held our breath as she announced that she made it!  Five nights dry! 

I knew we needed to do something big to celebrate this with her since she has been trying hard but has just never been physically able to do it until now.  I had purchased a Groupon to our local Children’s museum and I thought it would be the perfect celebration for her accomplishment.

We decided to go on a Thursday morning so it wouldn’t be crowded with older kids.  Part of the big excitement was getting to see the three-story Christmas tree set up at the mall and getting a candy cane from the big guy himself.

When she first saw the Children’s museum she kept saying, “Is this my surprise? Is this it?” She was squealing and shaking and jumping and giggling.  I love how excited she gets about things.

She ran around for a minute trying to take it all in.

The dress-up section with a stage was a huge hit.  She put on a costume right away.

Noni helped the girls build some towers and tunnels and Bug would put on a costume and burst through the foam blocks as her big entrance.

Boo’s favorite two things were the water table (the reason she is partially wet in all these pictures) and the slide.  She must have done the slide 20 times.  I would help her up the little stairs and she would say, “Go round Mommy! Go round!” so I would go around and catch her at the bottom.  She was so happy.

They got to do a little foreign shopping with real items from faraway places.

And they both spent quite a bit of time racing around in the little cars.

And bike riding.

Then we moved on to the art section.  Boo made several paintings.

Bug and I made a bunch of paper snowflakes and then she went over and painted them.

They had some fun-house type mirrors that Bug and Noni tried out.  It was hilarious.  They were laughing so hard they could hardly do it.

We stayed for two hours before heading up to the food court to get some lunch.  What a fun celebration! 

And we were just invited to a birthday party at this same place in a couple of weeks so we get to go back and have even more fun doing all the neat things with friends!  We’re already looking forward to it!