My Day Job...the Highlight of my Career

So needless to say I have been very busy lately trying to complete some custom orders that I have during the night, but during the day I have been Potty Training my son like crazy. Can't complain at all though, because it is really paying off.

This past weekend I came up with a great idea in my mind. I created a Potty Chart and a Treasure Chest for my son, so that we could embark on our Potty Adventure. The Potty Chart I created is broke down into 13 weeks and every time he pees or poops on the potty he gets to add a star to the chart.



We started off saying that every 10 stars in a week he gets to pick one toy out of the Treasure Chest, but we had to change that as soon as he decided he was going to pee on the potty a total of 7 times in the first day...so we changed the 10 stars to 20+ stars...lol!

I have to say I am one proud mama. Within one week of training he was already coming up to us and telling us he had to go "pee-pee". It is the cutest thing in the world when he comes up and say "pee-pee, mama"...lol! So this week I purchased a folding potty seat to take out with us during the day and some cloth training pants, just in case he decides to go in his undies while we are out and about.

Here are just a few photos of his potty chart and treasure chest. Please excuse my painting job, painting is not one of my big strenghts.






Here he is getting his first toy from the Treasure Chest...he had a total of 43 stars this week!

Back into the Just of things

I know, I know...it has been a really long time since I have posted on my blog, and from here on out I am promising to post on a weekly basis.

So after a long, great weekend at Harvest Festival...things are starting to get back to normal. Harvest Festival was wonderful. I had a great time hanging out with great friends and seeing all of my friends and family stop by our booth to check things out. I was so grateful to share a booth with my friend Rochelle. Our booth looked great.

Besides taking a couple of days to relax from the longs hours I put in to get ready for the show...some other exciting things happened. We have been trying to potty train my two year old son now for a couple of weeks and I am proud to say that he took his first poop and pee on the potty all by himself, well except for the fact of me helping him get up on the potty because he is too short...lol! I have to say I am one proud mama. I know, I know it is sad that the highlight of my week is my son going poop and pee on the potty, but hey if you have kids you understand. It is a work in progress and I have to say that he is doing really well.

As for the rest of the week, I have a couple custom orders I need to get to work on and I have some inventory to get ready for another show that I will be attending in October in California. Once again, I will be sharing a booth with my friend Rochelle in Claremont, CA on October 24th from 9am-5pm. It should be a great show and I am very excited for it.

Baking Extravaganza!!

So yesterday we had a great time baking it up in the kitchen. Although I am trying to lose weight that I still have from two years ago when I had my little one...I thought it would be fun to bake some cupcakes with my little man. Lets just say it was a mess of FUN!!

Ingredients to a great frosted YUMMY Cupcake:

1 little man with a cute baking apron
1 mommy that buys great Funfetti cupcake mix
1 huge metal mixing bowl that we could sit little man in
3 eggs
1 cup water
1/3 cup oil
1 huge mixing spoon
A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE AND FUN

It was so fun watching my little guy with the ingredients. First thing we dumped the cupcake mix into the bowl (powder mix) and he decides he is going to try to eat it...lol! It was all over him. Next in with the water, oil, and three eggs. I cracked each egg on the side of the bowl and plooped it into the bowl, then held it up in the air and he watched all of the egg gew slide out of the egg. I know what he was thinking (I wonder if mom would be mad if I just grabbed the gew and strung it everywhere), but he held back until mommy started mixing. Once I started mixing I let him have a shot and he was doing really well until he decided he wanted to take a huge spoonful for himself...lol! So once we were done mixing I let him dip his fingers in for a little taste...hello, everyone tastes the cupcake mix when they are done mixing and who doesn't like the spoon (wink, wink)! Needless to say our cupcakes turned out great!

Here are a couple photos from our adventure in the kitchen: