It's official

We.

Are.

Potty Training.

Keaton loves the potty...and apparently has been asking in his Sunday school class and they've been taking him! (haha!)

We figured we should run with the cues.

After avoiding the inevitable for awhile now, two days ago, I knew I had to do it.

He had the worst diaper rash. I needed to put some serious diaper cream on him and I couldn't do that with a cloth diaper, but he freaked out over the disposable being on him. So that settled it. Run naked and let me know when you have to go!

So far, no accidents in 2.5 days. But he's spent more time in the diaper than I anticipated due to errands. He's gone a handful of times on the potty.

I made a run to Babies R Us last night to get a ring for our toilet (I hadn't anticipated doing this, but, I figured it would help K relax so he didn't have to hold himself up and some stools to stand on to wash hands (what we've put off buying for a year now anyway).

So we did that and we'll get some undies this weekend ;-)

And...

That's that.

We're training!

Big Boy Bed/Easter/....again?!

Since we bought (well, my mom bought haha!) K's new big boy bed, he's been very curious, but has only taken one nap in it. This has been totally fine by us - we are not pushing him in any way to sleep in this bed (if he can be contained - the better!)

Every.single.night. we got through the.exact.same.routine. He stands and looks back and forth, deciding which bed he wants to sleep in. Every night he lays down in his 'big boy bed' and as soon as we close the door, he jumps up screaming like someone is attacking him. He throws his sippy cup in his crib and as soon as I lay him in the crib. Silence. We're kind of tired of having 2 cribs and a big boy bed up in these rooms. We played with a couple of ideas - keeping them both in their cribs (but I'm really going to have to potty train K soon, the kid loves his little potty so much... and that'll just be easier in a bed and not a crib)....making his crib into a toddler bed (and when should we do that? Now? The day of the move/his party when he's all jacked up on sugar?) or just break down the crib and leave him with the only option being his big boy bed....

Where did that Keaton manual go??

Well, we decided we'd make his crib a toddler bed. We decided it would be done last night after small group...

Zach starts in on it...and then realizes, while he has the toddler RAIL, he can not find the hard ware....nice...

SO, K's new options were "3 sided crib" (for the child who HATES change!) or the bed he loathes, haha! It took about an hour, but he finally fell asleep in his bed! He woke up a couple times throughout the night, but he stayed in his room (my biggest fear).

However, nap time was a different story...glad we're working out these issues now, as opposed to moving day! (which will bring a whole new set of issues!)

So, when we move, Keaton will JUST have his big boy bed....Benjamin will get the black crib...and the white crib will go into storage for some time (no, we are NOT pregnant!)

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Easter - no pictures (well, of the boys in their Easter garb - I do have pictures of both of them in chairs, in the kitchen while Zach made breakfast!)

We went to church (have I mentioned how much I love our church family?), possibly started a new Easter tradition of Mexican (though, no more chimichangas for me, haha) and moved stuff into the house. Speaking of that church family, our washer is dying a slow death and, thanks to the wonderful world of Facebook, a family quickly (I'm talking maybe 30 seconds after I posted it) offered us their spare washer! What a huge blessing! So they delivered that to us after lunch. We came home and then left shortly thereafter for a cookout with your small group!

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You're wondering about the "again?!" aren't you?

I have to have surgery on my toe. AGAIN! I can't believe it! I'm waiting til after the move because I can't take another move being pitied and told to sit and rest (Ok, so I totally thought I'd have B about 10 weeks early during our last move!) So...yeh, I need to call, as soon as I post this and get it scheduled for next Monday - not fun. But, yeh, I have another ingrown toenail - same toe, different spot.

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Back to boxes!

Poo-poo on the potty!!!

That's right! Keaton pooped on the potty!!!!

I don't know all the details, maybe Zach can respond and correct anything, but he was giving K a bath...and the next thing I hear is, "Good job, bud!!!!!!!!!! Mama - Keaton pooped on the potty!!!!!!"

I'm thinking I really have to break down and potty train the kid - he was SO excited!

I gave him a small piece of chocolate and he kept signing more. I explained that he had to poop on the potty again to get more chocolate. He pointed to the potty again but then immediately wanted back in the tub (the kid loves bath time, haha!)

So...now I have to figure out a potty training method...other than the "avoiding" approach I've been taking, haha!

Picture Overload!

Keaton, why is Benjamin crying? (for the record - K did nothing to B. B was upset that I left his sight for 30 seconds to go get K out of his crib when he woke up from his nap...ahem - mama's boy...) ;-)

Here's the 'meal' Keaton made for me one afternoon :)

Seconds after 'pee pee on the potty'...I've been meaning to update: Since this happening, K won't go near the kid pot! haha! He'll still go into the bathroom, but he has NO desire to sit on it!! YAY!
Whenever Benjamin takes a bottle and he's super tired, he starts rubbing his head, it is so sweet :)

Ok....and how did you do this, Keaton? WHY did you do this?

Keaton had a bowl of cereal for breakfast the other morning, it went great! He loved it!

Wait - Mommy wants me to go where to college?! (Though from his PJs, you'd think I'd have some Crimson Tide thoughts...)
There's my 'lil' sugar lump in all his glory! :) I want to pinch every, chunky roll!
Even though it had only been about 6 weeks or so since K's last hair cut, he had to tilt his head back to see anything...to me, that meant he needed another hair cut. Since it was my birthday, I wasn't going to deal with it! I sent Zach (and his parents!) to do the dirty work (apparently, afterwards, Keaton was glaring at Zach from the backseat!) He HATES getting his hair cut (he doesn't have the cape on because it scares him...)(sorry for the blur!) But now he can see!!!!

And that was our New Years/Birthday weekend! :)

What is K up to? (pee pee on the potty???)

I added the "pee pee on the potty" so you know what you're getting into when you begin to read this post!

We have a toddler potty (a kid pot as I like to call it) in our hall bathroom. Whenever I use that bathroom, I try to get K to sit on it, just for kicks (for the record: I have NO desire to potty train/potty learn. Pre-B, I was gung ho. B was born...I'm totally fine with 2 in diapers!) Normally, K runs from it screaming and I laugh. Sometimes he'll sit on it and "sing" me a song (??)

Today, I had him sit and he started screaming, but it wasn't "NO, don't make me" screaming, it was screaming combined with him tugging on his pants to get them off...

I figured he'd run away once the pants were off.

Nope.

He ripped off his diaper, grabbed some toys from the edge of the tub and sat down.

I said, "are you going to pee pee?" He just smiled and seconds later...there it was...

Granted it was all over the rim of the kid pot and not IN the pot, but, none the less, he peed on (literally) the potty!

I cleaned him up (along with the kid pot) and let him flush the big toilet (I told him that was the privilege for peeing on the potty)

Then, all the fun was over. I went to put his diaper back on and he HATED that. I mean, I had to practically sit on him to get him to lie still and once it was on (forget the pants!) he was on the floor, kicking, screaming and bawling! Ohhh boy...

So now I don't know what to do. I'm NOT ready to PT him...I don't have the energy for that! But, I don't want to delay something that he wants to do...

Mamas??? Help!