Paint Yourself Silly

At Boo at the Children's Museum we got a bunch of coupons. One of them was from Paint Yourself Silly. We got to paint an ornament for free!

I'm probably lame, but I love pottery and all things ceramic. Thanks Emily. My roommate was taking a ceramics class and let me tag along one night with her to the ceramics studio. Wouldn't you know it, the first thing that I threw was centered and it was love from there. I took a couple of classes. I wasn't any good at it, but I love the feel of wet clay and the smell of it drying....

I made sure this coupon didn't go to waste. We painted our ornaments last night. Gabe immediately dipped his brush and put it on his face. I'm not sure if he was trying to eat it or smell it??? Either way. Yikes.

Molly picked a star. You can pick a maximum of 6 paint colors. I thought well we only really need a couple. Then I thought no if we get 6 we should pick 6. Holy cow. Molly used all her paint and some of Gabe's. Her star is beautiful, and hopefully it's dry by now :)

Daddy helped Gabe paint his Christmas tree. So pretty.

I'm excited to pick them up in a week or so. As we were leaving the store Molly slowly made her way to the ice cream parlor next door. She was very disappointed with me when I told her we couldn't get ice cream before dinner. Mom has to ruin all the fun. Right as we were leaving the building she told me that she needed to go potty. Drum roll. And she went potty on the big potty all by herself without her potty seat!!! That made my day. She also used the little potty at the library Wednesday, but the library has Molly size toilets. I think this means I might not have to bring her potty seat everywhere we go now? fingers crossed. That would be the last step of the whole process. It's been a couple weeks now since she's worn a diaper when she's sleeping and we haven't had any accidents. yippee.

*fyi when I say potty seat I don't mean an actual chair I mean the donut shaped thing that goes on top of the toilet so your kid won't fall in. We never got an actual potty chair, it kind of grosses me out, but so does carrying around her potty seat..?..