Presenting...The Lego Fire Station!

Some of you might remember that, more than a year ago, I saw a Lego fire station in a catalog and my dad told me he would get it for me when I was officially potty-trained. We even tore the picture out of the catalog and hung it up on my bedroom wall. Well, after going #1 AND #2 in the potty for 4 weeks (with NO accidents!), he and Mom agreed it was time to follow through on the promise.

We bought it last Sunday and got to work on it immediately. Dad decided he was going to help direct me, but that I would put it all together myself. The first night, it took me 2 hours to put together the smallest engine (a little bigger than a matchbox car). Keep in mind, these are big kid legos (ages 5-12), not toddler-sized duplo, so they were tiny little pieces. The next night, we built the bigger engine, which took me far less time to finish. We've built a little every day this week (moving faster and faster each time), and this morning, we finally finished! And I built it ALL on my own! Daddy never actually touched a lego, he just supervised and helped keep me from getting frustrated.

Of course, since this project was really a year in the making, Mom had to document its completion. So, ta-da! I give you...(drum roll)...The Lego Fire Station!







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You can enlarge the pictures by clicking on them, in case you want to see all the little details. It's pretty cool. The firemen all have accessories and there is even a little coffee pot in the kitchen.

Big! Huge! Major! Ginormous News!

The Potty Chart

Save me from my mom's potty training boot camp!!! She's come up with this crazy chart with stickers and prizes. She's lost her mind! I like my diapers! I could walk around all day with poop in my pants! I don't want to use the potty! She has this crazy idea that everyone uses the potty at some point in his/her life. I have no idea who's been feeding her that bag of lies, but I'm not going to do it! And no chart with stickers is going to change my mind.

She made this thing as a "reward system"--whatever that means. She said when I sit on the potty, I can get a polka-dot sticker on my chart, and when I actually do something while sitting on the potty, I can get a race car sticker and a M&M. Then, when I have 10 stickers on my chart, I get a prize. She's not fooling me. I know what these "prizes" are. They're some little books or puzzles from the Target dollar bin. Big deal.

...but those race car stickers are awfully cool...