Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Fun Free Crap

So, for my printing work, I mainly use a website called vistaprint.com . . . they're fast, relatively cheap and good to work with. Plus, the off free stuff ALL the time. I got something like 8 different personalized family photo calendars this year for maybe $10 in shipping, plus some free new business cards.
They have a free section on their website that includes all kinds of fun offers . . . including creating your own caricature family. Here's ours . . .
I think I'm pretty much right on . . . in fact, Annie seeing this said, "Hey, it's Mommy! And that's almost Dad." There really was no getting close on Annie or Ellie's hair.

One discounted offer the website keeps giving me is for t-shirts . . . I'm so tempted to do this one . . .



Potty Training Update:
Things were going so well . . .
All morning Annie was right on. Going in her potty every half hour or so, taking her baby dolls potty, checking in and telling me she was still 'dry'. It seemed like we were right there . . . when she came in and told me she'd peed in her panties. On the potty. Huh? Turns out she had done just that, sat down on her potty, panties still on and proceeded to pee. Minor setback, at least she was still using the potty. Then it happened again. And AGAIN. Three pair of wet panties in less than 15 minutes. Then we went to play at the neighbors house, and I put a pair of "Pull Ups" on her (which are nothing but more expensive, flimsier, thinner diapers . . . that Annie likes to pee in.) We came back with a very wet diaper, or whatever, and we got her changed back into 'big girl panties for the rest of the evening. Only to have her pee all over the kitchen. It's like that first setback reset everything and we're at square one again . . . but that's possibly just my bad mood talking (which is a direct result of the mopping and the extra laundry . . . )

5 comments:

Jessi said...

I almost ordered a free wedding t-shirt from there that I created....but then thought it would just be jammies and not even worth the shipping, but all the free things are so tempting!

Sorry about the potty training set backs. Tell Annie to pull herself up and hop back on that potty train!

Shannon said...

I love your caricature family! Very cute.

Bummer about the potty training setbacks. Weston was similar. Did really well in the beginning and was all excited about it then just peed in his underwear over and over unless I forced him on the potty. Finally I ended up going the pull up route for a couple months until he decided HE wanted to use the potty. He still has accidents, but it's not like before.

So, my advice is to not stress about the potty training. Annie is still young and if she doesn't get it this time around, then perhaps let her go at her own pace in the pull ups (less laundry, mess, annoyance). She'll get the hang of it when she's ready. Good luck!

Talina said...

David and I need more distinguishing features. David's caricature at least had glasses. I was very non-descript.

Talina said...

How did you get the picture of your caricatures off the website?

Unknown said...

Love the caricature family! I'm totally going to do one.