Really Busy Weekend

Wow, we had a really great weekend. Saturday we switched Link over to big boy unders, Beau's chess tournament plus shopping and prepping for canning some meat and on Sunday we had snow, canning the meat and Mike had to go into the station and sleep because the snow was starting to get really thick. We then had 2 snow days and a lot of fun. I will break it down.

Big boy underwear!
This is a tale of a three year old boy that refuses to be completely potty trained. He is a bit delayed and so I have been really laid back about pushing him. Well, I realized that I have been changing diapers for a decade and decided that it was time to stop. We have been having him use the potty but kept the pull ups so that if he had an accident there would be no problem. The pull ups ended up being a problem. We were using them as a crutch and would not stay on top of Link like we have the other 6 kids we have potty trained. So this weekend I did it. I put him in big boy pants and set an oven timer. We had 2 accidents in 4 days and are still doing pretty good. He is in pull ups at school but I am going to send a bunch of unders and pants on Monday and explain that he needs to switch up. As you can see he really loves his big boy pants!

Chess:
So Beau got moved up another level and got the mess beat out of him. Not really, he won 3 out of 6 games but it was enough to not place. However, he is in the highest level for elementary age kids so maybe it will challenge him a little more. Here is a pic of him and his two friends playing DS between rounds.

Canning:

Mike and I canned 25 pounds of chicken and 20 pounds of ground beef on Sunday. We do this to build up our food storage and it is just really convenient to have already cooked meat in our pantry for dinner on church nights and nights that Mike has class. It is hard having him in grad school but with the easy dinners it will be less hard. Mainly I just miss him two nights a week now.

Snow Days:

We had 6 inches of snow this week. That is a lot for Arkansas and our kids loved it. This pic is of our street about 2 hours after it started.

Here are the three kids on the first snow day. I bundled them up nice and tight in their scarves, hats and coats. (beau took his off) We played, built a snowman and just had a great time.

You can't see it but as soon as mike got home there were about 10 kids in my front yard having an epic snowball fight. Mike was a great sport and jump right on in with them and it was 10 against 1. I did not jump in and instead baked cookies and made hot cocoa for the warriors.

It was a great two days but I was ready to go back to work on wednesday. Beau tried his hardest to stay home again but I won. We are back on schedule and the snow is still in the yard. It will melt as soon as the 50 degree temps roll in this weekend. I hope all of you had a great week too.