it's ALREADY beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Growing up, Christmas was by far my favourite time of the year. So what better way then to make my favourite pastime Matthew's?!?! It's been a tradition of mine (and luckily easily adapted to James') that we start decorating during the November long weekend. Usually I try to wait until the day after Remembrance day, but this year we did it on the day of. So first, the tree went up, a Gingerbread house was made, tacky decorations up everywhere possible and voila - it's Christmas! Potty update: Matthew's been doing so well. He hasn't had an accident in a very long time. It seems like he's only had a couple since the weekend we trained. Last week, Matthew's class took the bus to Metrotown as buses are the big interest currently with his classmates. So the teachers decided to make it a learning experience. The main purpose was to ride the bus, but then they added a shopping component to it as well. They made a shopping list and took it to T&T supermarket. As they couldn't cart everything back that was on the list, they just bought Travis' suggestion of buns - light and delicious, great choice! The shopping list was funny. There was ice-cream, chips, buns, carrots, books...on the list. Matthew's suggestion was soup. Apparently Matthew and the gang had fun pushing the soup cans so nicely displayed into the shelf and destroying the displays. The 6 six teachers (volunteers included) quickly escorted them to a different aisle! The teachers did find everything on the list and the child who suggested the item got to pose with it. So the class was walking back to school from the bus stop when Matthew was saying "no oh oh bus" (no pee accident on the bus), "no oh oh shopping" (no pee accident in the mall). He kept repeating these two phrases and the teacher closes to him said, "Yes, you are doing so well. We are almost back at school". She clearly knew that Matthew needed to go. All his teachers were proud of him for being able to control his pee and knew it was coming! Just a minute away from the school, going down the steps before crossing the street, Matthew saids "oh oh down stairs!" (peeing right now while going down the stairs!!!) So Matthew had an accident for the first time in a very long time. Since the odds were against him, the teachers were so proud (as well as me!) that he almost made it through the whole fieldtrip without an accident. Oh well, at least it was only pee!