David
He is getting SO big! He is getting taller all the time and continues to get skinnier. It seems like the taller he gets the more picky he gets about his food. We are seriously down to a handful of foods for this kid! He is also talking in full out sentences now. It is really cute to hear him ask questions based on his observations of what I am doing. I never knew how proud I could really be over such a small thing. Right now he is very in to dinosaurs. He loves his dinosaur sheets, wants to watch dinosaurs on tv, loves to play with his plastic dinosaurs all over the house, and acts like trex is chasing him outside and he yells "Mom! Hide! The big one dinosaur is going to get you!"
Our biggest accomplishment though is potty training! About 3 weeks ago he started throwing fits and not wanting to put his diaper on. I thought this was a great step so I talked it over with Jon and we decided to just go cold turkey and get him potty trained. We started off talking to him about where our poopie and teetee goes and he would tell you it goes in the potty but we never actually got it there! Lots and lots of accidents every day and he didn't care about getting a treat. So I called my friend Laura who has potty trained two boys and her youngest is only a couple months older than David. She told me her secrets and really encouraged me to just keep at it. So we moved the potty into the living room as she suggested and the first day he pooped and peed in the potty!! Then for five days afterwards we had nothing but accidents and he fought us every time we asked him to go potty. I was truly about to give up again when something just clicked! One day I was putting laundry away and David started screaming "mommy, I went tt in the potty!" So I ran in there and sure enough he had. Then a few minutes later I was in the living room and he came running in from the play room saying he had to go tt again and he just ran to the potty himself and went. Since then we have only had once accident in 2 1/2 weeks! A couple of moms have asked me what I did so I will share the basics. We did not use pull ups for anything but sleeping. He hated going tt on himself and especially in his clothes so it was a huge incentive for him to use the potty. The pull ups just acted like a diaper. At home he just wears shirts and nothing else. He has a hard time getting his underwear down so he just runs around naked. When we go out I just bring extra shorts and undies in case he has an accident. He also gets a small treat each time he goes potty. The biggest thing is once we started the training we never put another diaper on him and when he wears a pull up to bed we put undies on first and then the training pants so he never had that feeling of a diaper on. I feel like the consistancy on this was the big key. Now that he has it all down he can wear the pull up to bed without the undies because he doesn't like to go tt in it either. I am so so proud of my big baby boy!!
Alex
Little Missy is quite the character! This time last year I thought she was going to be very passive and easy going because of the way she interacted with David. She is actually the opposite of those things. When she wants to do something she will not be persuaded otherwise. Any attempt at persuasion is met with screaming. Not outside fun screaming, I am talking blood curdling, I am mortally wounded type screaming. We are working on other ways to show our anger.
She is also talking up a storm. She uses 2 and 3 word sentences and amazes me with her vocabulary. She is amazingly observant! She will watch you do something one time and she can figure out by herself after that. She moves bigger toys all over the house to use them as stepstools to get to food, toys, and breakables. I have to watch her like a hawk!!
She also loves to eat! I have to make sure and keep her away from David's food because she doesn't waste time and gobbles her food up and then goes after his.
Alex is our drama queen and that also makes her very funny! When she has an audience she performs and it is so cute. She especially loves to twirl in her dresses, and I love this because it is so girlie and makes me want to dress her up even more. Her hair continues to be curly even as it gets longer. Those curls combined with her personality just make for quite the character these days.
Since she has been watching David go to the potty she also wants to go potty. She takes her diaper off if she can get to it so she has to have pants on at all times. She has gone in the potty a few times so I think we will start potty training with her pretty soon. We will also move her to a big girl bed in the next couple of months. She loves to get on David's bed and read books and asks to sleep there so I think she is ready. It will be weird not having a crib set up in my house.
We are leaving for Sea World tomorrow so I will have lots of pics to post of our trip when we get back. I will end now with pics of Alex.
