Friday night we watched a bike race in Uptown. Bennett liked watching the bikes, but he liked wandering around even more. We spent most of the time walking up and down the sidewalk, but in his defense, there was a lot to see. When the cyclists passed he loved ringing his cowbell. During one of the fun rides, a cyclist threw out a bunch of candy bars. A few fell into the race course, so after that heat, I let Bennett walk in and pick them up. Since he has been to a parade, he knew what to do. Other bystanders got a kick out of him picking up the candy and were cheering him on. 

Saturday was the big day: potty training day. 

Bennett got a chocolate treat for each pee and a car and Oreo for each poop. Here he is showing off his car and Oreo face:

At 7:30 he already told us he needed to potty. Genius! Shortly after we put the underwear on him, he sat on the blanket on the couch and had an accident. Not quite a genius. After that, he went bottomless the rest of the day. He had a horrific poop accident but otherwise didn't do too badly. We decided to plan man-on-man with the kids so I got baby duty while Joel took the lead with potty training, and he did quite well with it. 

Caroline and I had a lot of fun doing things that don't involve being onguard for bodily fluids on the floor. 

Sunday was a continuation of potty training and Father's Day. Bennett woke up dry! Amazing! Joel did wake up at 2 am to take him potty and he went when he woke up but still great! Our goal was to take a walk to Caribou. We did and it was a success!

When we got home we decided to set up  the little crab pool we've had for a while but have never used. It was shortly after playing that Bennett had his first accident of the day. But he was playing outside, with water and wearing swim gear... So it wasn't a big deal. 

On out walk home from Caribou Caroline was pretty cranky and wanted to be held as she slept. She woke up with a slight fever and seemed to be getting worse on our walk. Once home she slept. 

And slept. 

And slept. For about 4 hours, which is totally unlike her. She woke up in an okay mood and we went to dinner but she definitely wasn't feeling well.