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There's been so much going on lately. Now that the dust is beginning to settle I can start to catch up on my blog again. Holiday has ended her school year as a kindergartner and now declares everywhere she goes that she's a first grader. She has also had her dance recital, which turned out to be fantastic. A whole lot of work to get to that end of the year moment. The theme was summer blockbuster so everything was a song or scoring from a summer movie. Her songs were a tap number to Chim-Chim-e-nee from Mary Poppins and her ballet number was from scoring from the Harry Potter movies, called Hedwig's theme. I really enjoyed the other numbers as well. The cow girls from Footloose, the two tappers from Happy, the hip-hop class's 'stanky leg', the glow-in-dark tappers (that was really awesome), the 9-to-5 girls, the Pink Panthers, the Great Gatsby's flapper girls and on and on. Now Holiday is going to summer camp with her same Kids Co group. So she's been enjoying the sprinkler days and bring your bike days. The field trips start this week. She's so tired by the time we get home. My office moved to Ballard last week. Not all our systems are up and running yet and the building is not even close to being finished either. The interiors are done we just have to wait till they get the phones and internet up and running. It'll be great when they finish the bathroom on our floor too. I'm thinking in the next month a lot of that stuff will get finished up. I have all sorts of places to check out on my walks now and have real amenities in the area that I haven't had in years. Johnny's daycare is two blocks from work so David drops Johnny and me off at the same time and I just meet him there after work, so that works out pretty good. It will take me about 20 minutes to walk to Holiday's school, so that works out pretty good too. Johnny has been working on potty training and we had a breakthrough over the weekend. There was a couple times yesterday morning when he was in just undies that he peed a little, stopped, told me that he had an accident and then I put him on the potty to finish. He would say he can't over and over, so I left him there to try while I got a clean pair of undies. About 15 seconds later I'd hear him yell that he did it and sure enough he did. So I told David that when he got home and we've been just getting him on the potty and leave for a minute and he'll do it. So apparently he likes privacy (which is not a bad thing). I told his daycare that today so we'll see how he does. He really wants to go to Holiday's summer camp but he has to be potty trained in order to do so. So we're using that as motivation. We tried pull-ups for a while but he would just pee in them and not say anything so we use undies at home now. We'll extend the use of undies as he improves. I've also got loads of pictures to post so I will get to that when I can.