Winter again

Finally getting a little more snow. I am grumbling because it is late January and the temp is low 30s. How we had gotten spoiled most of January, being above normal temps. Been a quiet week. Have started putting J in 'training pants'. Not that he is showing signs of being ready to potty train, but I figured since we are home quite a bit these days, why not. Hopefully something will start to trigger the whole potty training thing and it would be nice if he could be out of diapers by the time the new one comes! (He does have 3 boy friends who all were pretty much potty trained before they were 2, so it is possible with some boys.) He continues to progress with speech. He is becoming more spontaneous in his words (although still not full/complete words). Instead of us having to prompt him to say 'down', he is starting to say it on his own.
B and I went out and ran errands today. We ended up at Borders. I had a small amount left on a gift card so we had some hot chocolate and split a 'rice krispie treat'. We played board games and then read books and looked at magazines. We were there almost 2 hours! I think he had a lot of fun and is looking forward to a return trip sometime. B has been doing really well with preschool, so much so that the teacher has commented. I guess he gets distracted pretty easily and she has told me several times how he has gotten started on his 'paper' right away instead of talking the time away. He also went to the dentist this past week to have his cavities filled. He did very well. They came out and got him and I did not even walk back with him. He had a little Valium on board, so other than stumbling and falling, he was great! He loved the two milkshakes for dinner, along with the pudding and applesauce. The next day he tried to tell me he was not feeling good and wanted a milkshake!