Day 51 - Relatively Painless

I'm not going to lie, the past several days have been rough. Lack of sleep, teething and potty training have been a pretty difficult combination. I know the first and last are out of my control and the middle is just something we'll have to get through. I would put off the potty training, but this is the only week for a while where we have several days with no real schedule.
 Today we were able to just relax. We were up bright and early at 6:30, the kids and I played trains most of the morning until Tanni came over bringing some yummy muffins. We ate an early lunch then had a quick nap. We finally made it to the gym so I could get a run in and then back home for dinner, baths and bed. All in all a decent day with very few meltdowns.

 

Lu has been loving frozen banana chunks in her mesh feeder. A sweet treat for sore gums.

She figured out some new sounds tonight.

Enjoying some post-bath snuggles with Daddy.

Day 50 - Potty Training Meltdowns

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I mentioned the other day that we had started potty training boot camp. Today is day 3 and so far it is going OK. He has yet to have a pee accident, but going #2 has been quite a challenge. I'm open to suggestions to help us make this happen as I don't want to go back to pull ups again. Anyways, we've been taking him to the potty every 45 minutes and we're starting to get hit with some serious resistance. We're really trying to take a laid back approach, but it is difficult to keep a calm head when we never know if he's going to happily walk into the bathroom or he's going to throw a massive tantrum.
Poor Lu has been quite the trooper while we've been focusing so much attention on Max. She just happily plays on the bathroom floor while we read stories, sing songs and talk entirely too much about pooping.

Nice to see him looking somewhat cheerful...

Day 49 - Happy 8 Months Lucy!

Today is Lu's 8 month birthday! I can't believe she's getting so close to a year! She's *this* close to crawling and we're expecting her bottom teeth to break through any day now. While she still has quite the temper, she also is very silly and playful. She loves her brother so much, but isn't afraid to stand up for herself if he takes her toy away. She's finally eating solids and her sleep is slowly improving. We're on a mission to get her completely moved into her own room in the next couple of weeks.

8 month olds are too busy to sit still for silly sticker pictures!

Max wanted in on the photo shoot too!

Day 48 - Grocery Time

Max has been having a blast playing with the grocery store I set up on Valentines Day. He's having so much fun that we've decided we can only handle the store being up for a few days at a time.
He also has been enjoying a really cool toy truck that he got from Tanni for Valentine's Day. It came with a fun little toy drill and you're able to completely take it apart and rebuild it over and over again. We've been trying to get him to take turns, but it is hard to share such a cool toy!
I should also mention that today is Day 1 of potty training boot camp and Max kept his bird undies dry all day!!

Taking the truck apart with Daddy.

Tanni, Pop and Eric came over for dinner. Eric actually held Lucy!

Day 47 - Pinterest-Worthy Playtime

My love for Pinterest has been rekindled once again. I haven't really been on since I got Lu's nursery planned, but decided to start looking up things for the kids birthday parties. There are so many ideas! Anyways that isn't the point of this post. Along with hundreds of Angry Birds inspired items, there are also unlimited ideas for activities with your kids. I've pinned several, but rarely have the motivation to get all the supplies out and actually follow through.

I don't know what inspired me today, but I decided to get out the rice and the construction vehicles for Max to play with. He had a great time driving the trucks around and making tracks in the rice. We also worked on his letters and he was doing a great job identifying them as I wrote them. I swear this boy takes after his uncle and purposely answers questions wrong so he doesn't have to be challenged.

We'll have to do this again!

Lu's fancy new penguin pants.

Day 46 - The Other Side of Lucy

You know all these sweet, adorable, smiley pictures of Lucy that I've been posting? You'd think this little girl was always so happy and wonderful. Well, no. This little cutey has a dark side.

She's got her mama's temper.

This guy actually looks like he's enjoying himself.

Day 45 - Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! So far today we've celebrated with donuts with Tannie, a busted thumb for me, countless trips to Max's new grocery store, coffee from my new Keurig, and a fabulous brunch with white chocolate cherry swirl french toast.

Everything is three dollars at Max's Grocery Store.

Yummy breakfast!

Pretty baby!