August has been a busy month! Let's catch up!

So this month's goal was to get Hank to poop in the potty. He's been peeing in the potty (or if outside, on whatever tree is closest, whether we're in the privacy of our backyard or in the middle of downtown- thanks a lot Jason) for a while now, but we just couldn't get him to poop in the potty. Then a few weeks ago, we discovered Thomas the Train. They're like Jimmy Choo's for little boys. Irresistible and ridiculously expensive. Hank LOVES Thomas the Train. He plays with them for hours. He makes intricate huge tracks and then builds all kinds of buildings around the tracks with his legos and lincoln logs and then puts together all kinds of combinations of engines and coaches and freight cars to go around the track. And because I discovered that bribing my child is the only way to get him to do anything, I began bribing him with Thomas the Train to poop in the potty. And, it worked. Of course, it cost us about $200 in Thomas the Train, but I guess it's worth it to not have to handle poop anymore.

The other positive in all this is that I discovered a previously unknown passion for train sets. They are SO MUCH FUN. There are all kinds of cool sets with drawbridges and boats and even an airport with a helicopter!!!! And of course, there is construction equipment- cranes, and dumptrucks, and backhoes- which Hank is passionate about.