Saturday, January 20, 2007

HE'LL NEVER LIVE IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA

Overheard earlier tonight:

IJ: "I'm Bob bob 'Quare Pants!" (Spongebob Squarepants)

C (with some disdain): "You're not even yellow with holes. Or square."

In C's eyes, IJ will never live up to Spongebob. :)

What do you think?

BIRTHDAY DOG SASHA AND IJ THE POTTY BOY

Tuesday was Sasha's first birthday. She is no longer a puppy, but a DOG. She doesn't seem to notice, though, since she's still acting like a crazy puppy. She's loopy. I can't even count the number of times in a day I say "Sasha, no!" or "Sasha, go on!" or "Sasha! Don't poop in the neighbor's yard!".

In a year, she's gone from this:



To this:


From getting into "trouble" like this (such a cute little muddy puppy she was):


To being this troublemaker (that's a dog toy stolen from the neighbor's yard in her mouth):

Yes, in a year Sasha has gone from this cute little puppy lump that was too scared to climb the stairs so I had to carry her, that would cuddle up and sleep in my lap and give cute little kisses, to a crazy dog that chews up my underwear and socks (and no one else's), who constantly tries to get to the neighbor's yard to poop, and just drives me relatively insane with how obnoxious she can be.

But I guess she's still cute. She sure can smile:

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The past few days have been really good in potty training land. IJ has been relatively trained for a while now, ever since the day when he was a little over a year old that he asked to go potty after seeing C do it so many times. I put him up on the big potty not expecting much, but as soon as he was on there he pooped! He's used the big potty since then, cause I wasn't going to mess with one of those little potties if he understood what the big one was for. Since then I have gotten him mostly poop trained, but he was still doing most of his peeing in his training pants. I've been putting off putting IJ in underwear for a while, since that's what worked for C. But the puddles everywhere! But the past few days we've gone for it, and he's been wearing underwear for most of the day, and I've been giving him a few M&M's every time he goes in the potty. We've had a couple days where he's kept one pair of underwear dry the entire day! I can't believe how well it's been going already. The next step we have to work on is IJ recognizing that he has to pee on his own instead of me asking him around the time I know he should have to pee. Right now it goes about like this:

"IJ, do you have to go potty?"

IJ: "Nooooo."

"You're sure you don't have to go potty?"

IJ: "Nooooo."

"Okay, but remember, if you go potty like a big boy and keep your underwear dry, you get M&M's."

IJ thinks about this for a minute, and then "Mommy, I have to go potty and get M&M's!"

The only bad thing about the M&M thing is that C thinks that he should get some every time he goes potty too. So I'll probably have to wean off the M&M's soon and find some other potty reward. I saw a Dora potty chart with stickers on the Nick Jr. website that I'll probably print out. IJ likes stickers, so maybe that will work. I'm hoping IJ gets the hang of it faster than C did. C had the habit then, and still does now, of waiting until the very last moment to go potty. Pee had to be coming out of him before he would go, so a lot of the time he wouldn't make it. He's better now, but he'll still get the occasional wet spot in his underwear from waiting too long. I hope that IJ realizes that he can go potty before the pee is coming out. :)

Here's hoping he's totally trained by, like, next week. That would be awesome. :) At least I'd like him totally trained before his sister is born. It will be nice to only have one kid in diapers this time. :)

Monday, January 15, 2007

BELLY SHOTS

Today I'm going to share some pictures of my belly in all its 20 1/2 week pregnant glory (I took these a few days ago) because I can. Well, also because we never really took any pictures of my belly when I was pregnant with the boys. So I figure if this is the last time I'm going to be pregnant, I'd better document it. :)

kind of dark, but here I am (click the pictures to see larger)

belly from the side (I like this one)

belly from the front with my wonderful new surgery scar

I think I'll do some more in a couple of weeks, when I'm a little bigger. That is, if I don't procrastinate about it until May comes around... :)

Sunday, January 07, 2007

THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I had my ultrasound this past Wednesday, and after I left to pee (thank you, ultrasound technician :), the baby decided to cooperate and display what was between its legs. Get ready for it...


That's right. A GIRL. Female. Pink! Dresses! Hair clips!! :D Here's a couple more ultrasound pics:



I thought for sure the tech was going to say it was a boy. I mean I kind of thought it had to be a girl because of the morning sickness (I did not get any with either boy), but it was just the way she said, "Are you sure you want to know?" that made me think, I'm destined to have three boys. "Is it a male?", I asked, turning towards the screen to accept my destiny. "Oh no it's not." "It's not?!" And then I just about crapped my pants. ;) And then I went out and bought a girly pink dress and those baby girl headband things just because I could. Who cares if she won't be here till May and it's only January? :) I still have to get all new baby clothes either way. I'm going to have to add a little to the name of this blog, too. Mommy2Boys just isn't going to cut it anymore. I'll have to come up with something...

I'm also already up to 126 pounds. Last month I was 119. I gained about 50 pounds with both boys so I guess I'm well on my way. :) Although, maybe I should cut back a little on the cookie dough ice cream and double size three musketeers bars... (but I did have those ten pounds to make up for... :)

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Our Christmas went went really well. This year was the first year that C wanted to ask Santa for specific things, so I think he really gets the whole Christmas thing now. He wanted three things: the Imaginext Adventures castle, "play-doh pick" (I have no idea why they call it that), and "the fishing game". Santa made sure those three things were underneath the tree. :) This was also the first year that we left milk and cookies for Santa. We made chocolate chip cookies and chocolate milk, because when C and IJ talked to Santa online (a great uncle that dressed up), he told them those were his favorite. C and IJ also got one Christmas present from Santa a little early. We had gone downstairs to nana's and papa's, and that day they had bought the play-doh creativity center for the boys for christmas, but papa forgot to sufficiently hide it (it was sitting in their darkened bedroom, but the boys like to go it there and jump on the bed). We were all in the living room when C comes running all excitedly into the room shouting, "Nana! Nana! I saw it! C'mon! I saw it!" The look on her face was just priceless, since she knew exactly what he was talking about. I'll never forget that. :) She just told C that since he was such a good boy that year, Santa dropped off a present early. :)

Here are my favorite pictures from Christmas:

Christmas card photo

The first time they've been brave enough to sit on Santa's lap (IJ's pants are wet because he fell in a puddle on the way in). I didn't think IJ would willingly do it, because a couple of weeks before we had seen Santa at Target, and Santa came over to talk to IJ in the cart. IJ just refused to look directly at Santa, giving him a sideways glance with his eyes that said "If that guy touches me I'm gonna scream." Maybe he liked this Santa better?

Play-doh pick!

IJ and the "fishing game"

IJ extremely pleased about his new truck book with buttons

Look C! 33% more power!

R into the tunes (that's hearing protection with a built in radio so he can listen to music while using his tools)

Look! He actually posed for a picture!

We have to teach him that hockey is different from baseball...

C playing with his castle

The rest of December's pictures are here.