The family update...

Jackson and potty training: We are going a bit in reverse the last week or two. Jackson is not informing anyone if he needs to poop for the second time of the day, though the first of the day is still making it to the toilet. I think part of the problem is that he is usually playing and sometimes playing outside, so he'd much rather go in his pull-up than tell an adult. We are working on it and he is getting stickers when he uses the toilet to make it a bit more exciting.

Jackson and the television: We try not to let Jackson watch too much television. However, Go Diego, Go! is helping to watch the boy a little lately. Jackson just loves this program and is learning about all sorts of exotic critters. On our way to the zoo a couple of weeks ago he was asked what animal he wanted to visit first. Jackson's response: "a kinkajou." He's also learning about white tailed deer, anacondas, humpback whales and sea turtles. Plus, he's learning some spanish words as well.

The Big Boy Bed: The big boy bed is working out great. We have yet to have any problems with him crawling out or worse falling out. He knows to stay in bed and sometimes sings or talks to himself for 30 minutes before falling asleep at night, but he never climbs down.

Sara's World: Sara has been busy with school. Her Statistics course this term has been taking somewhere around 16 hours per week to stay caught up and in addition she was enrolled in a History class. The history final was last week and she is now working on her final for Statistics. After this weekend, it's one week of Spring break, and then it's on to English Comp and Marketing on the Internet.

Last weekend Sara and her friend Emily took off for a 12 hour scrapbook day at Archivers, it was great fun and a much needed break for both.

With a reduced staff to get things done at MPR, Sara has picked up some new task that will continually challenge her. While she looks forward to the challenge, the time commitment is going to be hard to keep in check.

Ron's Recreation: The softball season has started. Ron's first game playing with Gulden's was on Tuesday. The gloves and bats were a bit rusty, but things picked up in the second inning. Unfortunately they still lost, but it looked like they had fun doing it.

The bicycling season is underway and Ron is getting a lot of requests to tune-up bikes for friends and family. The task will keep him busy for a few weeks and in some cases, even earn him some extra cash to be spent on woodworking items no doubt.