Brooklyn and Daddy

Big Boy Underwear!

We had to take pictures of James in his big boy underwear so he could look back on them 15 years from now!

Potty Update #2

James has done amazingly well! I lost track of how many times he was gone to the potty once we hit 20 (he sits on the potty every 20 minutes and has gone every time- we are loading him up with liquids). He has only had two accidents- one at the very beginning and one when we let him watch one cartoon (he insisted that he didn't need to go... I should have known!).

But the best thing is what happened at nap-time: he went down at 1:00 and at 1:20 he came out of his room saying he needed to go to the potty! AND he stayed dry while sleeping!! Yahhooo!

Now we will wait and see what happens during the night... I am anxious and not expecting a lot... and they say that the second day is always worse than the first. I am not sure what I have such a pessimistic attitude towards this, but so far James is proving me wrong! Hopefully I will continue to have good news tomorrow!

Sunday Pictures

Our cute kids in their church outfits :)

Potty Time Update #1

This morning we started potty training (something that I have been stressing over!) and it has been pretty good- 5 pee pees in the potty and 1 accident. It's just the beginning and I think the worst is still yet to come, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. I don't think he has had the 'light bulb' moment where he identifies the need to go pee pee and links that to going to the toilet, but hopefully it will come sometime today!

I am not sure what is the 'proper' way to potty train, but we have put him in just underwear, constantly filling him up with liquids, and having him sit on the potty every 15 minutes. He is eating lunch with Matt right now and I am very apprehensive about nap time. I am not sure if we should put a diaper on him when he sleeps or not. Right now we are not going to put a diaper on (just rip the bandaid completely off) him while he sleeps, but I am definitely going to be flexible.

I don't know why I am stressing so much- hopefully it continues to go well!

Tie Time

James and Brooklyn will be getting Easter pictures taken soon and he still needed a tie to match his shirt.... so I whipped out the sewing machine and made one... and an extra one just because they were so easy!

I have fabric to make some bow ties- hopefully pictures of those will be coming soon!

Brooklyn's First Food

Brooklyn is 5 1/2 months exactly when we decided to give her some rice cereal. She definitely loved it, but I am not sure how much of it she actually swallowed. I would give her a spoonful of some, it would look like she swallowed it, then it would dribble out of the corner of her lips. Then she would lean her whole body towards the spoon and make an "Uh-uh" noise showing she wanted more. We will be trying it more this week and hopefully she will be able to get more in her tummy!