Archive for December, 2006

Pnut has turned two! I can’t believe how fast the time has gone. I miss my little baby. All mothers say it feel just like yesterday but to be honest it really does. It amazes me how much he has learned in just 2 short years.

He is talking more and actually saying words that other people can understand even though I have to interpret some of the time. He knows all of his letters and can read what the letter is if written. He knows his numbers and can count to ten sometimes fourteen. Once he gets his numbers down a little bit better we will move onto colors and shapes.

Although we had to celebrate his birthday without family it was a pretty good day overall. I made a pizza and an elmo cake. He opened his presents to which he got a portable elmo potty seat, some big boy training underwears, and an elmo aquadoodle.

Here are a few photos of cake time…

Photo set 1

Photo set 2

Pnut is doing great on the potty training front. Last monday, as you may remember, we started potty training hard core. My son is now a nudist, running around the house completely naked. We started out naked so he could start to understand how he pee’s, where it comes from, and how to stop it and go to the potty. By Wednesday, he had the concept down and goes straight to the potty when the moment arises. No more accidents on the floor, except for boo-boo’s. Those are a different matter.

Over the weekend pnut started a new trick. STANDING UP! Yes, he now refuses to sit down and pee pee, he wants to stand up just like daddy. And I must say he has GREAT aim. Hits the hole everytime. Now granted the seat might get a little wet but at least the floor is dry. It is so funny to watch him stand up and pee. He leans over the potty and puts his hand on the wall. So cute.

I made a potty chart to record his progress and eventually put in his scrapbook when he is done with his training. I put some elmo stickers on it out of his sticker book, which he thoroughly enjoys. We have little tiny stars that we stick on the chart for each thing he does on the potty. They represent the following.

• 1 star = pee on potty
• 2 stars = pee standing up
• 3 stars = boo-boo on potty

For the first half of the week he got 1 star, then he started standing up so he’s been getting 2 stars. He has only gotten the 3 stars once and that was yesterday after I caught him in the act of boo-booing and told him to stop and go to the potty. To which he did.

Often times, he goes in the bathroom all by himself, does his business and I don’t know about it till he comes and tells me.  He still goes to the bathroom in his clothes if he has real underwear or a pull-up on.  So we are trying to learn that even though we have clothes on that doesn’t mean we can go to the bathroom whenever we want.  It is a work in progress.

So earlier this week I really buckled down and started pnut on his potty training.  My goal is to have him completely potty trained and out of pampers by the time his sibling is born in late May.  That gives us roughly 6 mos. to get this potty training thing down pat.

To start off potty training I had pnut run around the house butt booty naked.  We mainly stayed in the living room and kitchen which has nice tile floors for easy clean up of messes.  Whenever he would start to go, I’d tell him to “stop, go to the potty and pee pee”.  He’d immediately stop the stream and rush to the bathroom to finish up his business on the potty chair.  The reason for this is to get him to realize what if feels like to have to go and to know to go in the potty and not on the floor.

We started this on Monday, by Thursday he has gotten the hang of “going” and when he needs to go he will run to the bathroom or tell me “boo-boo” which means I have to go to the bathroom.  Thursday was a break through day for us.  It started in the late afternoon when he started to go pee pee in the living room [keep in mind I was in the back of the house], he immediately stopped what he was doing and went into the bathroom all by himself and went pee-pee on top of the potty chair.  I had put the potty chair lid down when he wasn’t using it and apparently he couldn’t get it opened so he just sat on top of the lid and went.  Not his fault.  Completely mine.  But it is good that he knew to go to the bathroom and where to pee pee.  He immediately came and got me and told me “boo boo”.  So I rushed to see where the “accident” was.  To my surprise it was actually in the bathroom.  I was so proud.  So this time after we cleaned up our mess, we left the potty seat UP so if he decided to try to go by himself that he could just sit down with no problem.  And sure enough, an hour later he went to the bathroom again, all by himself and pee pee’d in the potty.  After he was finished he rushed to find me and told me he “boo boo’d”.  Oh, was I proud of my little boy.

We have sort of a reward system.  Each time he pee-pee’s or boo-boo’s in the potty he gets a bowl with some nerds candy.  He loves nerds candy.  He knows by now that he gets some nerds candy for using the potty so he will ask me for the “bowl”.  I tell him no if he hasn’t used the potty and he’ll sit down and try to go.  If he just can’t go he’ll tell me “no pee pee’s”.  So cute.

He is a quick learner…knock on wood.  Now we just have to figure out how to make boo boo’s in the potty.

I’ve uploaded some new videos of pnut from our camcorder!!!

To view the whole album click the link below…

Pnut’s Video Album

Or you can view the most recent videos that have been uploaded by clicking the individual links below…

Pnut fixing his hair

Pnut singing his favorite song

Pnut playing with blocks and singing

Pnut singing II

Yesterday, pnut got his first glimpse at snow. He was practically glued to the window, as was I, watching it come down and coat everything in a glistening white. He’d sit down and make “butt angels”, run around and chase KoJo or just plop himself down on the pile of snow that I was trying to use to make the base for my snow man. He just loved it!

pnut plopping in the snow

pnut and “DoJo” playing

SHHH! mama, stop taking pictures and lets go already!

footprints in the snows of time

photos when it first started snowing, it was about 6 at night, sun had just gone down

another night photo

—->The photo to the right is a picture of pnut this morning after we were done playing outside. We had to undress in the garage due to all the snow we had on ourselves! We were also forced to wear sunglasses due to how BRIGHT the snow was! had we not had sunglasses on we would have been blind in two hours.

Here are some photos of pnut taking a long nap.

passed out!

there is nothing more precious than a sleeping child