Potty time!

It has been a LONG couple of days but if I start whining about that I may never stop. Instead I can tell you about the ramp up to potty training...for Stella at least. We have the potty - I just haven't tried to show her what to do with it yet. Mostly because once I start I know I have to keep going and frankly, right now I have no more extra energy to give.

She will tell us when she has to poop (and sometimes after she just pooped) and we've been praising her for dropping (dropping...ha ha) that bit of information but that's about it. Tonight after I gave the babes their baths, I let the water out and took Aaron out of the tub to dry off and dress. Stella was still in the now empty tub. She started saying poop, I ignored her and you guessed it, she pooped in the tub. BUT I know she's a genius because she:

1) Waited till I let the water out

2) Waited till her brother was out

3) Didn't try to play with it. Instead she kept saying, "dirty, dirty, ewww, ewww" and trying to climb out of the tub.

I'd just shown her a (really stupid) potty video and I guess she took it to heart...without actually USING the potty.

It's the little victories right? And yes I've done you all a favor by not having taken a picture of all this. Instead you can have this pic.



It's what all the genius kids are wearing these days.

puddle jumpers

Taking turns.




Airplane!!





Goodbye...

Drinking club

Sometimes the club meets in Aaron's crib. I guess mom's are only invited to take pictures.

Zoo

Watching grandpa hold a parakeet. Stella was really tired by the time we got to the zoo.



I can't look at the bird grandma, there is a camera pointed at me.



Hi panda! Stella just kept saying "eat eat" because Mr. Panda was chowing down on some tasty bamboo.



The train is his favorite part!

Members Only

The shirt-no pants, milk appreciation club meets in the hallway every day at 1:30 pm. Don't be late!!

America's Best Dance Crew

I'm not sure what I was thinking with the matching outfits.




She has enough sense to look unhappy about being in head to toe blue.

Wheee

Prepping for the derby

Wait Grandpa, Is my hat on straight?



Really? My glasses are crooked?

A moment...

Even superman needs to take a bath.

In Tucker

Hanging out in the front yard at Gma and Gpa's. Unfortunately these are all kinda blurry.



The grandparents have all the best toys.



Going down the stairs alone like a big girl.



He couldn't be happier!!



She looks like ice cream and I want to squeeze her.



Squeeze squeeze squeeze.

Stella's new word of the week is "yes". She says "no" a lot...well actually she says "moe" but she says it when she means yes. Now she's saying "yes" and even nodding her head. So funny. And she's overly preoccupied with having clean feet. She checks in between her toes when we take off her shoes. She looks between her toes and says, "eeew...eeew...ewww". I can't stand to have dirty feet but I don't think I've expressed this to her. Maybe it's genetic. Aaron's new game is chasing me but he gets so excited about the game that he runs into stuff and falls over laughing like mad. He is just THE happiest boy.