Siding Papa's House

Today we went over to papa and grandma's house to help Dick Ruger side his house. Man was it hot out. Everybody was there. All the kids played well together and the boys and Julia were catching crawdads and frogs from the creek. That was just gross. Ely loves to play with frogs and such. Its been a long haul for everybody. Lots to do in such little time. Money gets tight and bills need to be paid. Work work work all day long and it always seems that ends never meet. I think papa and grandma Hoeke are going to buy Ely a new bike for his birthday. Ely's birthday isn't until November but he wont be able to ride it then. So i am hoping that we can get it soon so he will be able to ride it before the snow flys. I didn't even know that he could ride one of those 19 inch bikes until Barb told me and until i was able to see it over at Grandma's house. He is vary good at it..I don't think it will be vary hard to get him off the training wheels when it comes time. Now the potty training bit is a completly differnt story. If anybody has any ideas or options for me to try I would be more than happy to try them out. Ely will be 3 in November and he seems to have no interest at all. I am not even sure if he can even tell if he has to go. He will tell me he has to go number 2 so I go and put him on the potty and he just screams and says no he don't want to. I just wish he would learn because it would make it so much cheaper on me not having to buy diapers for both kids. So if anybody has any ideas PLEASE feel free to let me know. Well i am going to call it a night. We had a long day and its time for bed. Good night to all.