Happy New Year!! (because it's definitely January and not May - that is my story and I'm sticking to it) Please see the link below for *recent* (remember people, it's January here) pictures of the ladies:
http://purdyfamilyest2005.shutterfly.com/pictures/415
We spent the days post-Christmas heavily invested in potty training our little one. This was a battle of epic proportions. Very, very dark times for our family. If, hypothetically, I was writing this in May (which I am obviously not, since these pictures are all from January), I could happily report to you that the heavy lifting is done and we are more or less free of all of the nonsense that goes along with potty training, but since the date of this post is the end of January, I am only able to say at this time that things are touch and go, but trending up, and that we will definitely never be having another child to go through this with all over again - E.V.E.R.
The highlight of our month was our first trip to Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor waterpark in Traverse City. Megan had been mostly apprehensive about the water until last fall, but something suddenly clicked with her and between November and January, she turned into a fearless little fish. She had a random Thursday-Friday off of school later in the month, so we decided to make a long weekend of it and give the place a try. They L.O.V.E.D. every minute of it. Hannah, who has never shared her sister's fear of the water (she is confident about her swimming abilities, to a fault), had mastered all the water slides her height permitted her to try within minutes of our arrival. Megan was able to do all of the slides with a parent, and wasn't the slightest bit hesitant on trying them all, approximately one million times.
The resort has other non-water entertainment as well, including a nightly story time with their woodland creature themed friends. We also signed up to have milk and cookies delivered to our room each night we were there by aforementioned woodland creatures, which was kind of fun. We had warned the girls what was going to be happening each night. Hannah answered the door to Violet the Wolf on night 1 (who she had just met and hugged at story time about a half hour prior), but her gut reaction to opening the door to a wolf - even a wolf bearing milk and cookies - was to slam the door right in her face. I suppose I can't fault her that one... Thankfully Violet stuck around long enough for us to open the door, profusely apologize, and collect our bedtime snack. We will definitely make a return visit, once we have lived down the shame of this one.
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