Two big things happened this weekend. First Nicholas decided to repeat his rolling over efforts. About a month ago when matt was home with nicholas for the day he (nicholas not matt) rolled over. Of course I never saw it so I didn't believe it. And then nicholas decided not to do it again. Guess there was just no need to. Well this past Friday Nicholas decided to roll over from belly to back. He had to do it on the futon though and wouldn't do it on the floor. He knows the good life. Today at daycare they were saying he was rolling so much they couldn't keep him on his belly. YEAH!!!!
The second is that I decided to be slightly more serious about potty training. I'm of the thought (right now at least) that Nathan will potty train when he's ready. That's not to mean we don't talk to him about going on the potty and how big boys do it and ask him frequently if he needs to go to the potty, but if he says no we just let it go. Well on Friday I decided to see if going without a diaper would teach him what it feels like to be wet and maybe he would be more willing to go to the potty. After the third change of pants in less than an hour I gave up and put his diaper back on. But in the process I had told him about the cars. You see at christmas we found a set of cheap matchbox cars (40 for $20). So we only gave him like 5 for christmas and saved the rest for potty training. I got the box out and he helped me put them into a basket and i told them that if he pees on the potty he gets one car and if he poops on the potty he gets two cars. He was very excited about this process but no matter how long we sat on the potty nothing came out and 5 minutes after he got off he would pee. Well on Sunday he comes over to me and says I poopied. I said really and looked in his diaper and there was nothing there. I said you haven't gone yet... LET'S GO SIT ON THE POTTY!!! So we rushed upstairs, got some books and settled in. And after about 15 minutes I looked in the potty and there was the tiniest little turd in there. YEAH!!!!! So he got two cars and he was soo proud of himself. We called daddy into the potty and everything. Of course about an hour later he went for real in his pants but that's ok... he's starting to know when he has to go to the potty.
This morning when I dropped Nathan off in his room he was the first one to arrive. I was telling his teachers about the potty experience and we were talking about potty training in general and the differences between boys and girls, etc. Nathan was playing and periodically trying to get my attention with some toy. I guess I talked too long because nathan looked up at me and said "Time to go mommy, bye bye". I was flabbergasted. This from the boy I usually have to peel off me in the morning. I was so astounded I stopped my conversation mid sentence, said "OK, give me kiss" and "Bye Bye" and I was out the door. I'm sure it will be totally different tomorrow but it was nice not to have a screaming child reaching for me to start my week.
I have a couple of videos I want to post. I'll try to get to them tomorrow night. Have a great day.
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