Sunday, June 10, 2012
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Friday, June 08, 2012
Visitors...
Though most of our family doesn't live within 4 states of us, they're all pretty great travelers, which means we got lots of visitors after Jude was born: Kris and Tom (Grammie and TomTom), Steph and Larry (Nana and Booka), Kristi, Jason, and Collin (Mike's sister, husband, and their 2yo son), Mandy and Allie (my oldest sister and her youngest at about 4 mod), and Heather (my next older sister). All of them were very gracious visitors, overlooking any mess or uncleanliness, and super helpful to the over-tired new parents :) Here are some fun snapshots of the gang, not in the right order:
Getting some vitamin D with Grammie :)
TomTom is thumbs up!
Knowing Nana's voice...
That Booka's a funny guy!
Hanging with cousin Allie; so close in age, only about 4 months apart.
Auntie Kristi with all the boys! Nice smarmy smile, Milo, jeez.
Snugglin' with Uncle Jason.
That's all of us (Mike's taking the picture) at Pullen Park, riding the train. Jude's even there in the Bjorn with me.
Riding the carousel at Pullen Park with Nana...
...and Kristi and Collin.
We hate our deck, can you tell? Every other picture is out there :) Steph and Kristi with my boys.
Climbing on a caboose with Auntie Heather!
Sorry Jude, you were stuck in the stroller for this one...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
On being potty wise...
I think there is a credible book with this same title, but I'm learning that with Milo, we're a trial-and-error type of family. He's not potty trained yet, but we're having some success, but I'd really like to tell you about how our reward system has come about.
Mike and I agreed that we just wanted this to be a positive experience for Milo, no guilt, no yelling, no frustration, just as much encouragement as we could muster. We let him pick out his own potty, we got the stickers, he picked out his own underwear, and as people told us rewards worked for them, Milo seemed interested in M&Ms. Perfect, I had a bunch of mini-M&Ms in the cupboard from baking. The first couple of times, we got him to sit on his potty, but no action. Then a success. Then failures. Then another success, and with it I produced the promised chocolate bits. As I was giving them to him, Milo said he wanted to flush them down the toilet. Uh, buddy, you can eat these, they're chocolate, you like chocolate, remember? No, I just want to flush them down the potty. Uh, are you sure, they're very tasty? Just want to flush them down the potty. Okay. And down they went, and he seemed equally pleased with himself as if he had gotten to eat them. Only problem, then he wanted to know where they went. Sorry kiddo, they're gone. And since then, M&Ms weren't enticing at all. But marshmallows, that's the way to get that kid to pee on command.
Mike and I agreed that we just wanted this to be a positive experience for Milo, no guilt, no yelling, no frustration, just as much encouragement as we could muster. We let him pick out his own potty, we got the stickers, he picked out his own underwear, and as people told us rewards worked for them, Milo seemed interested in M&Ms. Perfect, I had a bunch of mini-M&Ms in the cupboard from baking. The first couple of times, we got him to sit on his potty, but no action. Then a success. Then failures. Then another success, and with it I produced the promised chocolate bits. As I was giving them to him, Milo said he wanted to flush them down the toilet. Uh, buddy, you can eat these, they're chocolate, you like chocolate, remember? No, I just want to flush them down the potty. Uh, are you sure, they're very tasty? Just want to flush them down the potty. Okay. And down they went, and he seemed equally pleased with himself as if he had gotten to eat them. Only problem, then he wanted to know where they went. Sorry kiddo, they're gone. And since then, M&Ms weren't enticing at all. But marshmallows, that's the way to get that kid to pee on command.
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