Elodie gets her first REAL haircut!

OK, so it is just snipping off her "mullet", and a few bangs around the ear, but it made quite a big difference.

She was having this sort of 1960's, Carol Brady look, and with her taking her clips out of her hair all the time, her hair was getting pretty uncontrollable.

She still has the bird's nest problem in the back of her hair, but that happens automatically every day and that's mostly my fault for giving her my very fine and thin hair.

So, a few dobs of leave-in conditioner, some cute barrettes or bands and voila! a cute girl she is!

Pee-Pee pot!!!!

I told her just the day before, when I was changing her diaper, that she needed to start using her pee-pee pot. And, if she did, that there would be an award system in place (a.k.a. "a surrrppprrriissssee")

Well the very next day Elodie proceeded to get naked, went to her outdoor kiddie pool, then said, "Mama! Mama! Pee-Pee". I wasn't prepared, I fumbled around and ran to the bathroom to grab her portable Ikea one and took it outside and put it in front of her, then backed away slowly from her (as so not to pressure her), and she sat down and went. Sounds ridiculous, but I almost cried from joy.

Patrick was so excited that he went out and bought about 30 little "surprises" to award her when she uses her pot. She's already done it about 5 times now.

Our little girl is growing up!