August was a busy and big month for us. Journey was potty trained 2 weeks before her birthday. YEA! Before then she used the potty in the potty often and would tell us sometimes but she was just not there yet. When she was ready - she was ready and has done so good! We have had a couple of accidents during the night - but that is it!!!!!!

1 week after her birthday the Paci Princess (for Journey) and the Bottle Princess (for Trinity) visited our house. On a Thursday night - we made a special box (colored on it and put stickers on it). On Friday night we put all of Journey's paci's and all of Trinity's bottles in it and put it on the front patio - and mommy started praying real hard for the weekend. The Paci and Bottle Princess took all of the paci's and bottles out of the box so she could take them to babies who needed them and she left Journey and Trinty each a new toy to find on Saturday morning after making it through the first night. Journey's was long over due and Trinity's may of been a little early - but it needed to happen! Trinity had started using her bottle as a paci and would walk around the house with it dangling out of her mouth. It was a VERY rough weekend - but we all survived and have not looked back!

Journey had to have dental work done at the end of August. She had a chipped her 2 front teeth close to her gums and a cavity had developed. It was a tough decision....but she had her 2 front top teeth capped - they are tooth color in front and silver in back. I was very scared - thank goodness mom went with me to give me strength. They gave her a shot in her arm and literally in less than 1 minute she was out. She was in the chair for less than 30 minutes and by that evening she was ready to run around! The teeth looked very different to us at first (bigger and a space between them) - but have grown on us and they look just fine!!!!!! She enjoyed going around to people asking them to look at her new teeth.