The Cook's: Winter is Over...

...or at least thats what Tom Skilling pronounced in the Saturday Trib as "meteorlogical" winter ended at midnight on Saturday. Only to wake up this morning with a dusting of snow on the grass. Oh well. 60 by Friday sounds good to me.

Given it was all of 30 on Sunday, we made a journey to the Chuck E Cheese 1 mile down the road to play games for an hour or so to get the kids out of the house for a bit. Yes, we are those folks that go to Chuck E Cheese and dont actually eat. Anyways, it was just enough for them, as after an hour they were ready to go. Looking forward to starting to get outside on weekends again and heading to the park.

Big news on the potty front - last night Connor finally agreed that wearing "pull-ups" was cool, so he is now off diapers - or thats at least what he says. He says "I no wear diapers - diapers for babies - Carter wear diapers." Little does he realilze its still a diaper. Will see how it goes at school today - where he occassionaly goes potty on the potty.

And after over 2.5 years of absoluting banning the Wiggles from ever being present in our household, somehow, someway, Connor saw them somewhere and now asks for it TV. At least it is in HD now...but my god, what an absolute waste of 25 minutes that show is. I just dont get it. Every other show on PBS or Disney at least has some sort of story or learning element. This Wiggles stuff is just awful - no story, no learning (other than dancing), and the same "schtick" every single show. I'll take Thomas Train, Handy Manny, Mickey, or Imagination Movers anyday over the Wiggles crap - ughhh. And I get that its an "Australian" import - but some of those dudes are a wee bit creepy.

Fun at the museum...