Pooper and Sweeper

Chloie has been telling me, "Poop," for about a week right before or after she poops.  This is super great for me because I really, really hate a poopy diaper.... I know, who doesn't?  But I hate them so much that I had Owen pooping on the potty at eight months old, which of course wasn't a consistent success, but still better than cleaning up every poopy diaper.  Anyway, when Chloie started coming to me and telling me about her poop, I was pumped.  I put her on the potty, but she resisted... until yesterday.  Chloie had her first big potty poop!  Owen was also super pumped about it too telling Chloie, "I'm so proud of you Chloie!"  Yes, it's the little things in motherhood....

Owen has been cracking me up this week with his sweeper salesman routine.  Don't ask me how I got sucked into allowing a sweeper salesman into my house for an hour and a half..... that part of the story is very annoying.... but Owen was evidently really intrigued by the whole experience.  Several days after the lovely sales call Owen found my electric skillet power supply and decided it looked like the hand-held vacuum attachment.  He comes over to me and asks, "Do you sweep your couch?"  I wasn't quite sure what he meant at first so I said, "Uh, yeah.  Why are you asking me that?"  Then he said, "Can I clean that for you?"  Ok, now I get it you're playing sweeper salesman!  He went through the kitchen and various rooms asking the same question, "Do you sweeep your cabinets?"  "Can I sweep them for you?"  Then after he would do that he'd exclaim, "Look at that dirt!  That's di'gus'ting!" 

And as a side note to the sweeper salesman story....  My chest got in the way I suppose when I was helping Owen pull up his pants the day after the sweeper salesmen were here so he started in about my udders... Chloie used to drink milk from there... bla bla bla.... Anyway, then he says, "Remember those two guys here sweeping our floor?"  I was glad we had seemingly left the udder conversation.  "Yes, I remember.  What about them?"  (The two salesman were heavy-set guys.)   "They had udders too."  Oh brother...............