This Day in History
1789 North Carolina becomes the 12th state. (One week later the states founders died of lung cancer.)
1877 Thomas Edison unveils his latest invention, the phonograph. (Shortly thereafter he was busted by the FCC for pirating church hymns)
1944 Ghostbuster Harold Ramis was born. (He came out slimy.)
1945 GM workers go on strike. (At least they had jobs…)
1980 Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R. (And I’m pretty sure most were high on cocaine, too.)
1995 The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished above 5,000 for the first time. (I’m sure that those who bought Lehman Brothers stock were thinking, “I’m gonna retire on this in 15 years!”)
2008 TheMonk, after almost five months of trying, finally goes poop on the potty. (With little fanfare, he sits on the potty and goes. Leaving Dad to scratch his head and go, “huh?”)
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I’m trying not to be jealous.
And, at the same time, I’m assured that there is hope for my Bruise. (At this point, I’m about to plan to send him to college with some Depends or something.
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Comment by Allanna — November 22, 2008 @ 10:13 am
Woo-hoo! Hurray! Three cheers for TheMonk!!
Comment by Deanna — November 22, 2008 @ 11:41 am
I soooo happy for all of you!
Comment by Grandmother — November 22, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
Rock on!!
Parenting is going to be such a piece of cake from here on out. LOL
Comment by MammaLoves — November 22, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
Also this day in history…30 years ago the Redneck was presented with a little sister sibling. She took one look at her and in her three year old wisdom asked if we could trade the baby for a puppy.
Thirty years later, I’m still down with that offer.
Comment by Redneck Mommy — November 23, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
You can’t explain these things. Three year olds are just weird. Now you just get to wipe his ass for the next oh year or so, in every single toilet you ever pass. Enjoy.
Comment by Issa — November 23, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
Comment to #6….Issa, have you already forgotten how long it took him to use the toilet? I’m betting the ass wiping will go one for a minimum of 3 years! However, that’s a small price to pay. Yea for TheMonk!!
Comment by Aunt Raina — November 23, 2008 @ 9:47 pm
Scratch and wipe, man. Scratch and wipe.
Comment by Whit — November 24, 2008 @ 12:37 am
Hooray!
Comment by Jess — November 25, 2008 @ 8:22 am
I love when they start doing it after ton of work on our part and they barely acknowledge they are doing it now. Our son figured out how to wake up dry most nights after months of us working on it and was just like “Whatever. We all knew I would learn it someday.”
Comment by Mike — November 25, 2008 @ 10:46 am