Archive for April, 2007

The latest way pnut loves to play is to pretend.  He will take various stuffed toys [Grover, Big Bird, Elmo, Squishy Bear] and will pretend that they are real.  He asks them questions… “Eat, Eat?….Ok?….Alright”  He will ask me questions if the stuffies can do something “Mama, Grover eat eat?”  “Mama, Gator bath?”  “Mama, Big Bird pee-pee, boo-boo?” “Meow [stuffed cat], cicle?[ride the tricycle] Ok?”  He has trained them all how to use the potty like the “big boys do” as well as fed them their meals and taken them for rides on his tricycle.

It is good to see him using his imagination.  It shows how creative and smart he really is.  I know he’ll be a great big brother.   And his speaking skills have improved so much since he turned two.  He makes sentences, repeats everything you say or the tv says and can understand instructions very well.  His favorite thing to do is cook with mommy.  He loves cooking.

His favorite shows are Deal or no deal, American Idol, Bear in the Big Blue House and Sesame Street.  There is an online game version of Deal or No Deal that he LOVE to play.  We will play it 5 million times if I’d let him.  When the contestants on American Idol hold out long notes, so does the pnut.  It is so cute to see him sing.  He says “Sing, Mama, Sing”  when he wants me to join in on the fun.  He talks about Bear in the Big Blue house all the time.  He learned all the names of the characters on the show so he will tell me what each one did on whatever video he watches for that day.

Finally pnut has started to realize how to do this whole potty thing.  For the past 3 days we have had NO accidents.  NONE.  Not even when he sleeps.  *knocks on wood*  I am so proud of him.  He is doing so well.  Poop and pee in his training potty.  So great.  I don’t know why he has a sudden interest in the training potty but whatever will get him to poop in it is fine with me.  I couldn’t be a prouder mama right now, that is for sure.  I hope he keeps this up and doesn’t back track once baby #2 is born.

I am so proud and excited for pnut.  Today he FINALLY boo-boo’d in the potty like a big boy.  Granted it was his training potty and not the big potty but still that is better than the floor or his training underwear.  He finally got to eat the boo-boo candy, which is a nerd rope, from off of the wall that we’ve been saving for this day!

I tried a couple of tactics to get him to this point.  One, the last time he pooped on the floor we shamed him.  No one likes to be ashamed or embarrassed so we tried to make him feel as bad as possible about pooping on the floor as we could.  Secondly, once he did poop on the potty we praised him SO much.  We ran through the house chanting about pooping in the potty and getting to eat the “special” candy.  Thirdly, we called Daddy at work and told him.  Got Daddy to praise him on the phone and then we called grandma and told her.  Everyone was so proud of the pnut, especially mommy.