My very good friend Rebeccah and her husband Robert just gave me a pottery wheel. I am so psyched! I need to get a splash guard, but other than that, it is a marvelous kick wheel, with a platform to put my pots on to dry and finish. Awesome. Not that I am really good at throwing. I took a pottery class in high school, and I'm taking a class with Ashlee Meadows, so I know the majority of what I am supposed to do. It's just the practice that I need to develop my own technique, my signature look, if you will. I've been watching a lot of Project Runway, can you tell?

Okay and I'm also subtly trying to potty train Erick again. We got him this really cool Spider Man seat to go on the big potty. I am reading him this very cool book called Everyone Poopsand I DVRed a funny Blue's Clues potty song, where Joe is singing about "When you gotta go", and "let's see what we can do do do do", educational stuff. Erick will tell me when he has pooped, but it's very hard to tell when he has to. He's not one of those kids that goes off to "hide" while they poop. I don't even know if he has a poo-face to make. I've never seen it.