Friday, March 25, 2011

Learning

Each day is something new, that's for sure! I'm really getting a kick out of watching him figure "stuff" out. For instance, yesterday, he learned how to buckle the clasps on his high chair. He spent twenty minutes doing it again and again. We still have to help him unlatch it, but he gets it together quite quickly now.

Today, he figured out how to take off the pin that tightens the tray to his high chair. And then, he spent the next half hour trying to put it back in.

Every day - that brain gets bigger.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

P is for PEE!! and POTTY!!

Sorry it's been over a month since I updated! We've all been sick and healthy and sick and we're back on the healthy end of things. Granna was here for a visit - YAY! Oma and Grandpa came for a weekend to help out when Bennett scratched my eye (yikes!). We're all excited to see Daddy-o again over Easter.

It's radically important that I write about potty training, toilet learning, or whatever you want to call it. Brian and I didn't really discuss a plan for this and there are so many theories about the best/least traumatic method for potty training kids. I've read a little bit, but figured that when the time was right, Bennett would let us know. We don't make a big deal about the bathroom situation - sometimes he comes in with us, sometimes we enforce the "mommy needs a little privacy" thing. Typically, we just treat it as something that everyone does and we taught him how to flush and say "bye bye pee", which he likes to do all the time.

For the last couple of weeks, Bennett has shown a definite and serious interest in watching Brian use the restroom. We've since kind of made it a ritual that they get to "pee" together before bathtime. In the last week, Bennett has been consistent in telling us (correctly, might I add) when he has gone pee in his diaper. He points desperately to his groin region and says, "pee, pee, pee". If I ask him if he needs a clean diaper, he points to his diaper, says, "diaer" (or something to that effect) and starts up the stairs.

Today has been no different. He wets, he points, he exclaims, we change. Tonight, before bathtime, Brian and he began the ritual. (The rest of the story is heresy because I don't actually watch the nightly event. I consider that a boys only thing.) Bennett was standing on his step stool next to Brian facing the toilet. Brian started to go and Bennett giggled, like he usually does. He then spit into the toilet - another part of the ritual, I'm told. Then, HOLY SHIT! he started urinating right there in the mother-loving toilet! Granted, most of the pee ended up on the step stool because he has no idea how to aim yet. But still! Bennett peed on/in the potty!!! There were high fives and celebratory hugs all around.

Our baby is growing up, y'all!