Potty Progress

Picked up my son from daycare today and noticed on his sheet there was a star next to Potty. He poo poo'ed in the potty. Hoooray!!! Then I notice that there in the next column is also noted a poo poo accident. So we are not there yet but making progress. I am going to get him a surprise and make a big deal out of his going in the potty and maybe he will do it again, and again and again.... Life without cleaning up poop... Priceless.... well atleast till we have another one.

Scary Balloon

At the house we have what remains of a helium balloon that Granny gave my son. It is all but deflated. It has been hanging around literally for months now. Well it migrated into the hallway where my son rediscovered it. He brought it into the living room and was playing with it on his slide right under one of two fans we have in the room. He let it go and up it drifted right into the blades of the fan. As the fan pelted the poor balloon, my son is yelling "That Scary". So I guess he figured it was both fun and scary cause once the balloon came down he grabbed it again and climbed up the slide to let it go again, but this time once he let it go and it was on its way up he ran and dove behind the couch. As the balloon hit the fan again, you hear "Scary" coming from the floor behind the couch. He did this several times until the balloon got stuck on the ceiling for awhile. I go in the other room and I hear him calling me to come see. He was so excited I thought we might have company or something. Nope the balloon had gotten stuck on one of the blades and was going round and round in the fan. You could have sworn it was the best thing since sliced bread with my son. The entertainment factor of a mostly deflated helium balloon. Who would have thought.

Granny!!!!

Ok so lets start this off with I love my mom! (Granny). Everyday lately my son wants to see Granny. That is wonderful you say. Well he says it constantly " I wanna go see Granny!", "I wanna go Granny church!", "I wanna go back Granny!" "When granny coming!" She comes to visit or we see her about 1-2 times per month. So it isn't like we see her everyday, but we do see her. I am getting to the point where it is like...."Why aren't you happy to just be here enjoying whatever we are doing at the time! I know you love her and want to spend time with her but do you have to remind me every 5 minutes all afternoon."

You know Granny if you are reading this you could just move over here and make my life a lot easier by not having to hear “I wanna see Granny”, he could just go see you any time…. Problem solved….

Swimming Lessons Update

Swimming Lessons are going well. Maddox likes them very much. He is still not crazy about putting his head under. He doesn't like his eyes wet. He likes to blow bubbles and kick around the pool. He is a little more tame in the water than the two girls in his class. He is really progressing with his back float or should I say laying in the water while the teacher holds on. He now relaxes a little while he is doing it. His legs don't shoot straight up in the air and he doesn't try to hold his head up. I am anxious to see what he will be able to do by the end of the program.

Deeewishus!!!

Sometimes you wonder where they hear things and pick them up from. The other night we were at a friends house. They had a BBQ cookout. My son and his best bud were sitting at the little table about to enjoy the cutest hamburger cupcakes. My son takes a bite of the icing and exclaims “Deeewishus!” Everyone had to take a minute to laugh. It was too funny. My son ended up eating all of the icing off of the cupcake and leaving most of the cake part intact. That sugar monster. I figure he got the comment from Scooby Doo, but I guess we will never know!

The Space Race

Today we conquered the Space Race! We did the family 10 mile ride. I pulled my son behind me in the bike trailer. I was a little curious before we started out to see how it would go. We have never ridden that far before with him in the trailer. I told him we were going to race and he was excited. Before we got to the halfway point he told me a few times he wanted to go back and see Daddy and Granny. We stuck with it and finished. Half way through the park and the ride we hit a nasty head wind. Boy was that tough. When we got about 4 miles from the finish my son fell asleep in the trailer. Not very comfortable. WE DID IT!!!! When we got back we got to take pics near the McDonalds shoe car. We also got to see Ronald, The Hamburglar and Grimace. It was a great day to ride and I believe my BIG guy had a great time! Maybe next year we can try out one of those tandem bikes or something.

Swim Lessons

I have been anticipating the start of swimming lessons since I signed him up over a month ago. I believe I was more nervous than I needed to be. Mornings at daycare can be hard. He attaches himself to you and wont let go. When you leave he cries and runs and hides under the table sometimes. This gave me great fears for the first swim lesson adventure. I could just picture me dragging a kicking and screaming child out to the teacher. All my fears were for naught. He was good. He went right to the teacher and got right in the water. HE LOVED IT!!! The teacher had to keep telling him to sit down but other than that he was great. So far he is not a big fan of putting his face in the water or lying on his back in the water. Hopefully by the end of the two 30 minute sessions for 12 weeks he will be a little fish.