Big Boy!

We got Wyatt a Baby Bjorn potty a few months ago, and he hasn't really been interested in it much except as a hat. Or moving it around from room to room. He has always refused to sit down on it, until yesterday. Last night I asked him if he wanted to sit on it and read a book. So, he sat on it fully clothed and flipped through a book. I think he has been starting to become more comfortable with it, because tonight during a diaper change, I asked him, if he wanted to sit on it, and he did, NAKED! :) Not for long, but after hearing all of our cheers and encouragement, he sat back down, loving the attention. The next time he popped up, he lifted both his hands high with a great big smile, as if to say, "What a big boy I am!!"

I am under no delusions that he will really start potty training anytime soon, and I am ok with that (his cloth diapers are SO cute! hehe). I just know that my guy takes a LONG time to get comfortable with things, so I like to give him a slow head start. ;)

He has started giving kisses, and asking for kisses (on his hand, his knee, etc) when he gets hurt. SO cute.

He is also SUCH a mimic...lately we have heard everything from, "Thank you so much", "Yes we can!" (from Bob the Builder), "I sit down here", and "Wanna play with Buster"....:)

Oh, and I almost forgot - tonight Watt spotted some baby food jars of green beans on the counter. (Sometimes I buy them because he will eat them mixed with plain yogurt - gross, I know. But when you have a toddler who has been refusing any and all vegetables for months, you'll do anything to try to get them in.) He asked, ASKED for the green beans. To EAT. So I gave it to him with a spoon, and he ATE THEM ALL. AND ANOTHER JAR. I was very excited. It was a momentous day indeed. ;)

Here are some pictures of him and a good friend today - they make me smile.

Little Stud

Need to update badly, but for now...if only he didn't move SO fast...;)



Enough said. :)

P.S. Oh, and Mom? When he woke up at the cheery hour of 3:30am this morning (thinking it was 6:30, still on East coast time...) he was crying for "Grandmommy". And when I picked him up, he pointed to the chair and said, "Rock". Grandmommy sure knows how to spoil her little man...hehe ;)

See, Eric?

A picture of the little man "reading" a baby calendar before bed, and a couple more to prove how much he actually needs a haircut.

One of Those Years...

Sometimes you just have one of those days with your kid, you know? Eh, who am I kidding, sometimes we have one of those WEEKS, or even MONTHS. And there was that time that whole YEAR was one of THOSE.

I like to read "mommy blogs", and it never ceases to amaze me when I read a statement like this, "Johnny is such a happy boy, he sleeps so well and is always smiling. Taking care of him is almost effortless." Ummm...WHAT??? How nice for you. Times like this I console myself with the superficial fact that MY KID IS PROBABLY CUTER THAN YOURS. When not throwing a rediculous tantrum over the fact that we took away his sharp, shiny object.

I don't think during my adolescence when my mom threatened me with words of, "Someday I hope you have a child just like you," that this is what she meant. I was a LOVELY baby and toddler. It was just later that it somehow went terribly, horribly wrong. So, dear Wyatt, I guess if your plan is retribution on Grandmommy's behalf you can get it all out now, and then let's move on, shall we? That would be greatly appreciated. ;)

Which one looks more like us??

So we tried putting Wyatt down to sleep at our friend's house again the other night, and no such luck this time. :( He really wanted to hang with us, and was great once he was with us. I think he knew that if he started acting out, he would have to go to bed again...haha! We ended up getting home a little after 10pm, and he went to bed at 10:30. That was the latest he has ever gone down...intentionally anyway. I was really hoping he would sleep in, but no such luck. He did however take a THREE HOUR NAP the next day. During which I had to compulsively check on him 67 times to ensure he was still breathing.

These are a couple pictures I took this morning. (Note the chin scar in the first pic. I am constantly rubbing it with vitamin E in hopes it will eventually vanish into obscurity...;)P

The second picture was supposed to be of Wyatt hugging the dog, but he moved so fast, I basically just got the dog. And yes, his eyes are really like that. No, suprisingly he doesn't run into walls. Much.