Pull up and Coffee Shops!!

So my little Turkey is becoming a big kid now! She has been potty trained for quite some time now. We have started working on staying dry through the night. When I had met with her doctor in the fall he said it could take her until she was like 7 or 8 to be completely dry through the night. I have had fears of this. So we have been slowly working on it. She drinks a sippy cup when she goes to bed so that is something we have been trying to stop. But for her it is comfort, her security blanket. I can't just take it away. I have been not filling it up so much. Every night it gets a little less. Well she has woken up dry every night for the past week, she had a pull up on but she was dry. I tell her every morning how proud I am of her. Well yesterday I thought it was a great day to start wearing big girl panties to bed. Nap time was a breeze! She woke up dry and was very excited about that. At bedtime she was proud of herself still and was excited to go to bed in big girl panties. At around 3:30 this morning we had tears from wetting the bed. I got up like a good mom and changed the bed. She sleeps with tons of animals so those all get to be washed today. Got everything changed and she went back to bed and was dry the rest of the night. I am very proud of her. We have started letting her dress herself and pick out her own outfits. Today she put on 5 shirts (3 tank tops and 2 tea shirts) and luckily only one pair of pants. Everything matched too! She is learning to put socks and tights on by herself which can be very frustrating for everyone in the house! I have found reading a book while she is fighting them is best because then we don't get as frustrated. Our reward today for getting dressed with out a major blowout was we went and got coffee.

I have found a new love! Don't get me wrong I will always love Cafe Ibis and my Starbucks but I have found the yummiest coffee place. It is inside the bookstore here and they are amazing. I think I have mentioned this before! Today we went in and an older gentleman was behind the coffee bar. We started chatting and he is the owner and was very sweet. He gave us some Swedish Gingersnap cookies to nibble on while we drank our coffees and played games. He has lived here his whole life and was telling me about his love hate relationship with this town. We talked about the oil boom and the different views on it. There is a lot of negativity here from locals about people moving here for the jobs. They are great at expressing their opinions in the paper when someone mentions they are new in town. I have heard people tell new comers here to go back where they came from if they don't like how things are done here. I have experienced a little bit of the negativity toward me because of what James does for work. But I am a person who expresses how I feel. I have told the people who have been rude to me about moving here for the jobs that we had no other choice. I inform them about the fact the where I am from the economy sucks and that there are no jobs. And if you have a job you can't afford your apartment because they don't pay you that well and rent keeps being increased. And how you don't dare quit your job for a different one in fear that you might get laid off. I worked two jobs back home just to be on the safe side of things and so we could stay afloat. I state my case just in case they give a damn. Which I am pretty sure they don't but oh well.

Not everyone here hates the fact that people from all over the country are moving here. There are people who enjoy the new life here. As the coffee shop owner said, a new gene pool. Haha. The locals here have been here forever. I have noticed though that must of the people who get their panties in a bundle over the newcomers are people who have only lived here a few years. I find that kinda funny. There was a proposal for a shopping center and people declined it because they don't want it here, they don't want variety and are in fear of it being a vacant building. I don't see it being vacant. I think that it is a great idea to have some stores here to build the local business. The downtown area is very fun here and has some great shops but not a lot of variety. They definitely need more clothing stores. There is none for men or children. But I did find out today that Regina has great shopping. It is about 190 miles from here. Looks like we will be getting some passports soon. Apparently we only need them to come back into the states. Do we really need to come back? James and me were chatting about just moving to Canada last night. We both love Canada. But we will be staying here for a while and long while. Canada will just be one of our run away spots. I enjoying the thought of taking a weekend to go somewhere like Canada or even Minot to go shopping then coming back home. I love shopping weekends! I plan on having one of those soon.