So I have been blogging more this month. Check the last 3 blogs. I took Nathaniel pictures today. They turned out ok. I did this pose with Nolan when he was 13 months. Nathaniel is 11 1/2 months here. The 1st 2 pictures are of Nolan the rest are Nathaniel. I have the 2nd pic of Nolan hanging up in my bathroom. I have not decided yet which one of Nathaniel's I will hang up in the bathroom along side Nolan's picture.
Gail and I took the boys outside to play in the snow the past few days. We even made snow ice cream one night. Yummy! Anyways below I made my 1st video/slideshow. so enjoy the pictures and videos of the boys playing in the snow. I love the very end when Nolan is trying to get his suit off, check out his nose...:)
So it has been a busy week. The weekend started off really well. My mom and I went thrift shopping and got a lot of nice clothes for the boys. I can't believe how many new items you can find at the thrift store and pay so much less than at a store. Anyways, I also took Nolan to get his hair cut. It was getting to be way too long and hard to manage. He always looked like he had bed hair even when I brushed it. Well our happy weekend came to end with Nathaniel deciding to throw up at church. He was perfectly normal all weekend and even when we got to church. However, he ended up getting sick and so Did Nolan on Monday. They both had some bad stomach bug that lasted almost a week. I can't even count how many times I was thrown up on and how many loads of laundry I had to do everyday. Nathaniel scared us one day. His hands and feet were starting to turn purple. Called the Dr. and he said that he was dehydrating. He needs more fluids. The kid could not keep anything down. He had been off bottles for awhile, but I resorted back to them b/c they are a slower flow. Sure enough he started to hold down more liquids and by the end of the day the purple hands and feet were back to normal. (He is back to sippy cups again) Plus on top of having a stomach bug Nathaniel is cutting 3 more teeth. Poor baby... he is having trouble sleeping and is really really really fussy....
I will be happy when things get back to normal.... Nolan is doing well with going # 1 on the potty. I would consider him trained on #1 but #2 is another story. Any advice out there on how to get them to go # 2?
Nathaniel has been furniture walking for like what seems forever... however, he has no desire to walk. but tonight for the first time he walked across the living room with his push toy. I was so excited. (check out the video) He also said Grandma two times this week. I can't believe he is going to be one in 3 weeks on Valentine's day and Nolan will turn 3 in about 2 months.
The before
Gail had some vacation time saved up that he had to use before the end of the year was up. So he was able to take two whole weeks off work. Yes it was nice having him home, Yes it was also an adjustment, but a nice adjustment! One night we had the Halls (Gail's older sister's family) for dinner and games. Their 3 kids stayed the night. We stayed up really late making a gingerbread house and playing the Wii. Fun times:
Nathaniel was baking in his kitchen while we were
Ok so today is day 5 of potty training. Nolan woke up at 8:00 today and had an accident free day. He did however, pee in his diaper during nap time, but I still consider this an accident free day b/c he was sleeping. Yeah!!! We even ventured out grocery shopping today. I was fully prepared for him to have an accident right in the middle of the store. However, no accidents. He came home and told us he needed to go potty. He still does not have #2 down yet, but I heard that is harder for them so we will see... I am nervous about Sunday going to church and seeing how he does there with telling he needs to go potty. There will be a lot more distractions there than at home..Fingers crossed that he will not need diapers anymore soon!
So today has been very productive. We started our day around 9:30 am and Nolan had one accident due to me getting distracted. After that he went 4 times and each time told me he had to go and made it to the potty. Yeah!!! While I am typing this he just had another accident. grr to myself b/c I was just about to take him. My fault!! :) Well I am now doing a load of laundry to clean his underwear. He is down to his last pair on, and thankfully the rest are in the dryer getting dried! Nap time is in a few minutes. Nathaniel is already down, but since G-ma Hon is here he is getting to stay up a little longer. She volunteer to stay home with him tonight to help with his training while we go to church. I love grandparents! :)
Nathaniel did great yesterday he used only sippy cups and continued to do so today. I actually packed up all his bottles but 3 (just in case) and am done using them.
Nolan woke up excited and wanting to put his underwear on.. (He cried last night when we had to put a diaper back on him for bedtime) Anyways, he has not done anything in the potty today, but did tell me he had to go poo poo. We ran to the bathroom and the little man really tried to go, but nothing. 15 minutes later he had a # 1 accident. He was so upset about wetting his pants. Anyways 40 minutes later he tells me he has to go #2 again. We rush to the bathroom and I pull his underwear off to only find me steeping in a very warm and mushy mess. Yelp he already did his deed and it fell out onto the floor and I of course stepped in it. Yuck. Oh well it was not that big of a deal or mess. However, I learned a very important lesson: Always check underwear before pulling them off just like a diaper! duh! He was disappointed about not making it to the potty, but I am impressed that he has a good attitude about it today and is trying. I just keep telling myself be patient he will be trained before I know it. It will be nice for him to be trained,but it is hard seeing my first baby in underwear and no more diapers. He looks more grown up.. I hate that they grow up way to fast! If u have any advice on potty training I would love to hear about. Especially what do you do when you leave your house!!!!
So this is the week we have decided to start potty training Nolan. This was our first day and it went pretty well. I tried to take him every 30 to 60 minutes to go potty. He refused to put underwear on and insisted to keep his diaper on. Grrr. Well at 6:30 pm I finally got underwear on him and at 8:00 pm Gail took him to try and go potty and He went! Yeah!!!! So pray that we can get him trained. It will save us some $ and it will be nice not to have two in diapers. We also are breaking Nathaniel from bottles starting today. So far he had his last bottle at 5:00am and has had sippy cups all day long. I am only going to give him a bottle at bedtime if he won't take a siippy cup. But I am hopping to pack up bottles by the end of this week! Also less than 2 months away no more formula. Wow I can't imagine the $ we will be saving with only 1 in diapers and no formula!!! :)
