Pro-Victory
We like to celebrate the achievement of goals. Some in our culture might call that being pro-victory. Regardless of your political views, being pro-victory in the Bushlack household means celebrating accomplishments. Some major ones for the adults are Tom completing his PhD and my last day of work on August 1, 2011. Some major ones for the kids are Audrey rolling over (to which we respond with clapping and shouting "hooray, Audrey!") and Sean beginning to show more signs of wanting to potty train. In September I thought Sean was ready to start potty training after we hosted a string of visitors who had 3-year-olds who were potty training (thank you, Victoria and Mia, for shining a "light' in the bathroom, a 'light' on the training potty). He showed some minimal interest then and I jumped all over it: I bought Disney's Cars stickers from Target, Sean and Tom drew a 11X14 picture of a road, and we encouraged Sean that any time he tried sitting on the...