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Potty Like A Rockstar

Shit!

Soho is crapping web blobs of poop everywhere in the house, and vomiting.

Liam is coming up on 3 and desperately needs to be potty trained so he can attend multiple day pre-schools like his peers.

"Soho, go POTTY!" I say, freezing in my boxers on the porch as she wakes me up 2:00 am on a Sunday morning to go out side....and do nothing.

"Do you have a sample of her poop?" the vet asks right before he charges me $340 for blood-work, x-rays, hydration procedures, etc.

I have poop on the mind. And, seemingly, it's everywhere.

We bought a  book on how to potty train a child in ONE WEEKEND. Man, I'm scared. Put rubber sheets down everywhere and don't leave the house...

Soho is on a rice blend diet with pills and careful monitoring so she doesn't ruin our carpets or hardwoods any further.

The shit has hit the fan in the Woodbery household and it doesn't look like it's going to clear for a while but we will come out potty trained (and re-potty trained) on the other side, it just may not be pretty in the mean time.

We're Moving!

We've made the plunge. The unexpected has happened: we came to terms (mutual acceptance, anyway) on our home in Ravenna during the freakin holiday season, the worst weather on record and a Seahawks playoff run. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect that to happen. But it did.

Now, we gots to find a place to live by first week of January. We have a house in mind and we are trying to get papers written on it today. If all things come into alignment, by the end of this week, our house will be sold and the house we want will be "ours" of course STI and pending financing - which, ya never know...

That said, Jen and I are excited that we may, potentially, have landed the house we really want in a great school district and hopefully a neighborhood full of semi-cool people who like to get together, watch their kids play and drink cocktails. A tall order, I know but hey, one has to dream.

We looked at SO MANY houses in so many areas, it's amazing that we've come back to one of the first houses we liked. It feels meant to be. My beautiful wife has been more than patient with the Gemini machinations of yours truly during this trying process.

We are inches from the finish line...wish us luck!