Diego and more!

What a great time we had at Go Diego Go!! The ASU Gammage Theater was just a perfect and cozy location. However driving there, I finally saw the 'ghetto' of Tempe. I was shocked at how run down and shady the town looked, considering they have this beautiful River front area and expensive condos and stuff. Guess where we know where they are putting their money.
We arrived in ample time for a close parking spot, potty break, souvenier collecting and more!
Riordan by the way has relasped on potty training and I just don't know what to do. He has more than 4 accidents a day if he's in his underwear and shorts, so I've resorted to pull ups again and just so disappointed. But the weird thing is, when we were at Diego he was doing the potty dance 20 mins into the show, so in the aisle since it was nice and dark, I slipped on pull ups on him. Well he insisted on going to the potty in the bathroom, even though I kept saying go in the pull up. So I had to run him to there and thankfully the people we sold our tickets to watched Caden while we went and Caden was a big boy and so engrossed in the show, probably hardly noticed we left ;-) And then when we got home, Riordan goes potty in the pull up, I give up!
I have tried bribing him again, crying LOL, and making frequent visits, but he still goes in his undies and pullups. But thankfully so far, he still goes eww in the potty! Okay so that's been going on for almost 2 weeks now..
Diego's set was so impressive, and Riordan has developed a crush on Alicia, his sister. Dora was there along with Baby Jaguar, BoBo Brother's, Click, and Rescue Pack. Pics to be upload soon!
Week has been somewhat uneventful, except that Caden's school had a mock Lockdown today. They had a practice one yesterday, and he didn't want to go to school today and do it again. They have to shut off the lights, lock the doors, sit quietly, and when someone comes to knock on the door, they can't answer it or the school fails. The Police dept comes and does the official Mock Lockdown which they did today and gave all the kids stickers. ALL the schools including Elementary do this, and it's a good drill for them. Wow welcome to the new age of school drills. Forget your tornado/fire drill right?!
So for Caden's anxiety, we put a guitar pick, a special rock I got in Maine years ago on the beach ;-), a die, and a keychain calculator for his pockets. He only could 'play' with these items during the lockdown and not during the rest of the school day. I emailed his teacher to informing her of his anxiety. She thankfully had a flashlight and used her computer screen for light and it really seemed to help. He said he wasn't so scared today and Ms. Hansen praised him for being so brave.
It's tough to know when to push your child isn't it or when to let them have their way. I'm glad I had him face his fear though. His teach is so sweet and nuturing, had it been not that way, I would have let him stay home.
Most of you know I have cut hair for years, actually began doing it again at the beginning of the year thinking we were done for a while with children, but had to give it back up once I got sick and haven't taken it back up since then. Anyway, the children have a fasination with my water bottle. They will swipe it in an instant if it's out and squirt pretty much anything that gives them a good laugh. Well Caden decided to squirt down our bedroom TV yesterday with it, and it made it break. Yep, the buttons don't work anymore. Now the thing is, this TV is older than dirt. It was Mike's ex's TV, lines going across the screen and buzzed all the time. But we said we wouldn't replace it until it stopped working. Well THANK YOU CADEN!! He keeps apologizing for breaking it, but I keep telling him he did us a favor! We went out to Best Buy and got a cute little 22 inch Flat Screen and WOW what a difference it is now LOL. I can't believe we put up with that for so long! However, he knows that he will get in massive trouble if he decides to squirt that TV or the big Flat Screen.
We had our playgroup Monday at our friend Michelle's house, and then had our friend's the Camacho's over for lunch today.
Tomorrow night Mike and I have a date, hopefully to Fleming's.. Saturday we are off to the Malloy's to see their new house finally and Sunday night I have a birthday dinner party for my friend Marcie.
Mike is home late tonite, so I may take the kiddos up to Chick Fila to play. It's so hard during this heat for them to get exercise. But it is like being at home for Winter. And our Winter we can still play outside.