Wild and Crazy Days

A couple of weeks ago we had some seriously crazy weather in Colorado. Colorado is known for it's huge changes in weather but this seemed extreme. After watching a cool lightning show we got some marble sized hail. Above is the "before" picture of all my flowers. The hail crushed most of them. Danny loved it even though he was worried about the flowers and a little scared of the noise. Man, it was loud!
These are the "after" pictures.

It looked like it had been snowing.
The flowers are growing back slowly but surely.

Now onto my adorable but crazy kids. Danny has been doing awesome with potty training for the last few weeks or so. He does great at home and as long as he is just with me he does fine when we go out in public. This last week whenever he is around his little friends or we are at other people's houses, he has accidents. I don't know if he is distracted, forgets, has reverted or what- but I'm going crazy. I am trying so hard to be patient but considering it has been such a LONG process- months and months- I am at my wits end. Oh and I have been worried about him leaving special presents while I'm visiting teaching so I put him in a pull-up. Today AND last week when we went, he went #2 in his pull-up. He NEVER does that anymore. The first time it got all over his pants, shirt, everything. What a fun experience. =) ARGH! Any suggestions??? I try having him go before we go or before friends come over, reminding him, asking him repeatedly and consistenly, etc. and nothing seems to be helping. I'm hoping it will just come in time.

Today has just been one of those days. Tonight, Ben is out of town and so I decided to take the kids to Chick-Fil-A for FHE. Danny had a blast playing in the little play ground with kids but I was paranoid he was going to have an accident. He didn't but when I took him to go potty he didn't aim very well, and I got a nice stream on my leg. Lovely. Oh well- at least he didn't have an accident in the playground.

Caleb is so fun and cute. He "army-crawls" everywhere. It is so funny to watch. He does this thing where he gets down on one shoulder and then kicks himself forward. He has just started crawling straight forward but he looks like a frog with a numb leg. I'm sure he will get it soon enough. He is already getting into EVERYTHING. He doesn't seem to interested in toys anymore, it's everything else that he wants. He has also started jumping in my arms whenver I hold him. The nice thing is that he is always SO happy. The bad thing is that he hasn't been sleeping well at all. He slept through the night a few months ago but I've decided that he was just teasing me.
Danny decided to go fishing in the sink. Even with all the recent potty training issues- he is such a cutie. In other news- Danny got a scholarship to preschool. In actuality we have been worried about his speech since speech problems tend to run in my family so we had him tested. He is behind in his speech and in his gross motor skills. So he is going to go 4 days a week to one of the district preschools and specialists will take him out once a week to work with him I'm excited for him but nervous at the same time. I mean 4 days a week seems like a big jump. He is such a little social butterfly so I'm sure he'll love it.