Two. Not so terrible.

It has been a very busy weekend.  We traveled on Friday for a viewing for the husband of an old friend.  It is such a saddening situation, but it was nice to see several people Avery had not yet met.

Saturday, well Saturday was this sweet little lady's birthday.  We didn't do a party this year, instead we went to Idlewild (and caught up with the Wildauers).  But first, we opened her presents.  Avery loved her little keyboard and Elmo shirt.  We had perfect weather for Idlewild.  We had been promising her a ride on a train all week, and I'm pretty sure that was the undersell of the year.  First thing in the gate we did ride that train, and one more time before we left -- at Avery's request. In between we rode several big rides with her, all of which she did great on, and several other rides, including a few that she rode by herself like a champ.  She did not nap all day, maintained a pretty good attitude all day, and still made it most of the way home before falling asleep.

Turns out she got the whole weekend as a birthday.  Today (Sunday) we bought some cake with her name on it, because, well, you can't not have a cake for your kid - even if I did make cake pops for her last weekend.  Yes, she totally blew out the candles all by herself! She also took to singing the happy birthday song all day today using the microphone attached to her keyboard.

My princess upon her throne

With my sister in visiting I have an extra hand.  I also have Avery off of school for a few days.  As such, we're taking our first venture into potty training.  Day one (yesterday) she had two light trickles and one good pee in the potty.  I know for a fact she was holding/not going on me for one length of time on the toilet, because as soon as the diaper went on she peed and lit the line up blue.  No poops in the potty yet.

I will say this, she was very patient and spent good spurts of time on the toilet happily, providing she had TV to watch or we kept her otherwise engaged with books etc.

Day two has commenced.