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Our first day of Booty Camp failed! Nicholas must be the 2% that does not get what we are doing. For the first 5 hours Nicholas held it until he finally exploded all over the kitchen, after that things just continued downhill. He fell asleep around 8pm and didn't have an accident until 4:30am then again at 8:30am. We hope we have better luck today, it seems he just doesn't want to go in the potty but anywhere else is okay. Maybe we will have to take that trip to Chicago after all....

Booty Camp here we come!

‘Potty Whisperer’ toilet-trains toddlers in one day, at ‘Booty Camp,’ it’s the kids’ responsibility to clean up their own messes on the TODAY show June 9th.

An operator of a so-called “Booty Camp” in suburban Chicago has a claim that will astonish parents of droopy-diapered toddlers everywhere. Give her five hours, she says, and she’ll give you a potty-trained toddler.
Impossible? Not according to TODAY’s Al Roker, who offered an unsolicited testimonial. “I actually took my son to this, and it works,” he said. “One day.”
Sweeney, a registered nurse and the mother of six, told TODAY’s Ann Curry that her system actually works about 98 percent of the time. Based on Nathan H. Azrin’s book “Toilet Training in Less Than a Day,” the woman who is called the “Potty Whisperer” trains parents as much as she teaches the toddlers. Visit website http://www.bootycampmom.com/.

We are attending booty camp this week. Our friends Jill (Boomerang Consignment) helped us pick a potty from her store and Jen gave Nick cool undies for his birthday. So my home is turning into camp, all the diapers we had left went into the garbage and we are following the advise seen on the TODAY show.

Rehearsal Dinner / Wedding

Nice Nails

Kelli went to the nail salon with me today to get ready for Ty's wedding. She had a good time and picked a very cool color! Hot pink with white sparkles!

Kindergarten here we come!

The graduates with great-grandparents Julia and Frank, and mommy! They were excited about the program but nervous that Kindergarten is next.

Kelli and Sal walking in with their classes. The kids sang beautifully, songs included One Small Voice and Shine on Me.

Sal graduating with his teacher Ms Tawny. All the afternoon teachers. Kelli with her teacher Ms Nancy.

Sal made some very good friends this year, his best pal AJ will be going to the same school next year.

First Day of Summer

Today marked the first day of summer. Friends enjoyed a day at the pool, the boys hid out at the fort and our crew picniced inside. We had a great day and look forward to tonights graduation for Sal, Kelli, AJ and Brandon!

No Fieldtrip for Us!

No Court Date...

Cancel previous post. Our court date has been postponed until the court judge and attorney can approve our petition for adoption.

We Have a Court Date!!!

Hooray the time as finally come! We have our court date for Tuesday, June 10th to officially adopt Kelli!

LOL

Tomorrow is the preschools big bowling fieldtrip, some of Sal's friends moms and I did not want to go so we have secretly been planning a swimming playdate at our house. Well today during class talk time about the fieldtrip and were are some of the permission slips Sal announced him and 3 friends DO NOT need permission slips because they are all going to his house to swim!!! Well carline was full of animosity when myself and the 3 other moms came to pick up our kids, the teacher was pissed off that none of the main mom drivers are going bowling but going swimming instead! Thank God there is only one more day of school, I don't know if I can take this behavior any more!

Princess Party

Kelli was invited to her first all girl birthday party. The theme was "princess" and Kelli picked one of her Disney dresses to wear. She picked Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty because that dress matched her Crocs. Here is her friend Madison for her 5th birthday.
This party was extra special because Kelli had her first sleepover with Madi and her sister. Some know her last sleepover (at Nana's) had a few bumps so we were not sure how she would do. But Jen and I are glad to announce Kelli slept over the whole night!

Skipping School!

Bowling Bash