I had my first parent teacher conference since Lola has been in the toddler room.
This is what I learned:
*Lola has excellent verbal communication
*She is a leader
*She uses the potty every 2 hours
*She likes to take toys from her friends
*She is a good eater
*She loves to sing & dance
*She refuses to help during clean up time
Ms. Debbie followed it up by telling me that Lola is a pleasure to have in class and that she always uses her manners. I was very pleased to hear that since we work on manners all the time at home. One thing we don't work on at home is clean up. I do it. ALL of it. I guess it's about time I make her help out around here. I'll train her on kitty litter first and then laundry.
In other Lola news: we've been working on potty training. She is out of her diaper on weekends and after school. She has only had 2 accidents so far and that's when her friend Aila was over playing. Apparently they get distracted and forget they aren't wearing diapers. Who knew? For now Lola is still content wearing diapers to school although she does use the potty there. Her teacher told me this afternoon that Lola didn't wet her morning diaper until after nap time because she used the potty at school all morning! yay Lola! I think we'll give it a little more training time at home before sending her to school, where she is easily distracted, in big girl pants.
This photo is great for many reasons. 
After getting the children all pumped up for a corn maze we arrived to the grand opening only to find out they were closed. Lola (while wearing her hot pink fingerless glove from Angela) cried "I need a corn maze" 
Aaron introduced Lola to the wonderful Wizard of Oz last weekend and we have watched it every day since. I don't mind because I love this movie too. 
I hope I'm not about to jinx myself but this whole potty training thing has been so easy. I assume because 1. Lola is a girl and they say girls are easy to potty train and 2. she strives to be as independent as possible and by using the potty she is one step closer to her goal of total independence. 
I wasn't right there so I'm not sure how it went down, probably something like this "Thanks for inviting me to your awesome party Rupert but I want to tell you about the princesses. I like to watch Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. The witch in Snow White is mean and scary. Mom let's me have suckers if I'm good at the store. I slept in my big girl bed. I got a new GramMadonna CD. Thanks for the birthday cake and fruit punch. Your mouth is red Rupert"
I had my first parent teacher conference since Lola has been in the toddler room. 
Lola had her friends Rowan & Addy over to play a couple weeks ago. The kids seemed to do a pretty good job at sharing and taking turns. The play date was going by smoothly and then we broke out the bubble machine. It's pretty clear that bubbles change everything! Lola and Rowan decided to take things to a whole new level. Addy sat back and soaked it all in while Aaron, Angela & Lydia did nothing.
Rowan walked over with his family this afternoon so that his Mom could be one of the few people I share my Tiger Bakery with by offering her a sample platter. And by sample I mean a spoon full and she was not allowed seconds.
Lola and I are having such a nice weekend making the rounds visiting family & friends. Since my visits to Toledo revolve around food we started out at Tony Packo's last night where Lola entertained the diners with her yoga moves and some dancing to 80's pop music. We got to see Sam who footed the bill for dinner which makes it extra awesome. Thanks Sam!
