potties and concerts

I love this smile!
Santa Clarita has hosted a couple of big kids consignment sales this month, like giant garage sales.
I found this potty for just $3.50, along with a few other great bargains. Cora likes sitting on her potty. No action yet, but we're just getting her used to having it around and sitting on it.
We're entering a new era with Cora - the era of very little being safe in the path of an upwardly mobile toddler. She has advanced from climbing up onto the kitchen chairs to reach whatever is on the table, to standing on the chair nearest the kitchen counter to get to what we've stashed up there. This morning, she woke up pretty early so I was lying in our bed with her. She climbed down and in a flash was pulling down the fruit from the fruit bowl, which as of a few days ago would have been out of her reach.
In other news, Stace and I had a night out Tuesday when we went to see the Raconteurs play at the Greek Theatre. No photos to show, but it was a great show. Stace is a bigger fan of them than I am, but I enjoyed it too. Stace was disappointed they didn't play his favorite song, Carolina Drama.
We are officially without television again. We were without TV for a few days after moving into the apartment, and had planned to do without because we can't get basic cable in this complex. (The management has a deal worked out with two digital companies, which cost a lot more than what we were used to paying.) But we were offered a great deal for one month with AT&T UVerse, which basically got us super high speed internet and all the channels you could hope to watch, for $30 for one month. Stace loved having Fox Soccer Channel, and I loved having Fox Business Channel so I could watch my favorite financial guru Dave Ramsey. Alas, our month is up and the TV is off now. Time to hook up the DVD player!