Dora...Dora...Dora

We were working on a goal here in the Blanco house. A goal that mommy, daddy and Vanessa set together. When Vanessa reached the point where she was using the potty everyday and telling mommy & daddy every time she had to "go", she would get a big girl bike as her reward. Well, she reached it. Yippie!!! We have a potty going girl. She's been doing fantastic with very few accidents. We were going on week three when it suddenly occurred to us that mommy & daddy had yet to make good on their promise of a bike! Vanessa had spotted a Dora (of course) bike in the store and for the last 3months that's all we've been hearing about. So, you can imagine our bit of panic when we went to buy the bike...and...um...we couldn't find it anymore. Needless to say I think I felt like a horrible mommy for about three days until by chance Juan was driving thru a random town while working and saw a Wal-Mart sign and decided to stop. Crisis averted!! Daddy scored the very last Dora bike (the sales associate had to search the inventory in the back!) and now we have a very happy little 2 year old. Lesson learned = when you set a goal and promise a certain reward to a little one....it's best to buy that reward ahead of time just in case! Very proud of our peanut!