Pooper Party

Who but a mother or father would clap and dance around the kitchen in sheer joy and happiness because their child pooped or peed on the potty?

Jackson had been doing great for a while on the training potty, but for some reason hasn't used or wanted to even try to use it for weeks, possibly even months. I didn't want to push it and have it backfire, so I've been patiently waiting for the right time to try again. After he got up from his nap, we went downstairs and when I asked him if he wanted to try to go on the potty he said "yes". Not expecting much, I sat him down while I got some clean clothes for Lexi who had successfully pooped out of her diaper all over her outfit. When I came back, he had made one small poop, so I asked him to sit for a few minutes more to see if there was anything else. Sure enough he peed and made a LOT more poop. Who would have thought I'd be so excited about pee and poop????

Nicolas is STILL obsessed with cards, and more specifically war. At the time, I thought it was a great game to teach him. It would help him learn/understand the concept of higher/lower, etc. The child is OBSESSED. All day long all he wants to do is play war. And he'll play by himself, pretending to be someone else. He'll play and pretend that one pile of cards is mine (or Lou's or anyone else within eyesight) and will play.

Yesterday at school it was one of his classmate's birthday and she gave all the kids in the class a big sand pail with a shovel, pack of cards for "Go Spidey", bubbles, chalk and a paddle game. Go Spidey is a take on Go Fish and we've been playing that a bit. We had to go out to the Internet today to figure out the names of the Spiderman allies and villains since neither Luis or I had any clue for most of them. I knew Doc Oc, The Green Goblin and Spiderman. The others I looked up.

Lexi has gotten pretty good at crawling/pushing herself backwards but gets frustrated since she moves farther away from the things she wants instead of toward them. But I am sure that within the next couple of weeks, she'll be crawling around like a pro...sometimes they grow up too fast.