parenting question

Allowing your 5 year old to watch 2+ hours of TV after she gets home from all-day activities that involve new people and/or physical extertion: allowing a necessary brain- and body- rest, mindless vegging of the sort that many adults enjoy, or allowing child to get away with murder while justifying my own laziness about not making her do other stuff?

comic books for early readers?

Casper is asking for comic books. Can anyone recommend any that are both good and geared at beginning readers? She's currently at "hop on pop" level, but anything pitched lower than, say, Calvin and Hobbes (which she loves but can't read) would be great. Superheros, girly stuff, fairies, any subject would be fine.

first potty success!

After bath the kids ran around naked and built forts. mr. flea asked Dillo to go try on the potty before he would get him a blanket, and Dillo went into the bathroom and may have veen climbed on the toilet but came back saying the peep wasn't ready to come out. But half an hour later he came to mr. flea and asked him to turn the light on in the bathroom, got on the potty, and peed and pooped! We made a big fuss. I'm hoping he's the kind of kid that once he gets over the initial hurdle and figures out he can do it, he'll do it and be done. Wouldn't that be nice? Well, we'll see.

(Is he asleep yet, on the other hand? No, he is not. Luckily I am not on duty with him tonight.)