Boys and Their Toys

I came home on Saturday afternoon after running a few errands to find that Avery had a very special new toy delivered from his Gigi! This bad boy took 18 hours for the battery to charge, and surprisingly, Avery was completely patient while he waited until the NEXT day to enjoy his new toy.

We got up very early (as is now the case every morning due to the new "big boy" bed), and I made muffins and scrambled eggs for breakfast. After breakfast, we ventured outside to let Avery have a ride on his new motorcycle. He LOVED it. It was pretty funny watching him as he tried to figure it all out. I think the steering will take some more practice, but overall he looked like a pretty cool kid while he was riding around!

Above are a few pics I snapped with my new iPhone and below is a little video as well.

Weekend Wrap Up

After a really long, stressful week, I can honestly say I am glad that tomorrow is Monday. I was sick with strep all last week which made me really tired and really irritable. Not a good time to be feeling that way. Saturday night we had family in town so we decided to be brave and take Avery out to dinner with us. He did pretty well until the end of the night. He asked 4 times to go potty (I think he really liked the paintings of the naked ladies in the men's bathroom at Cafe San Miguel's) but never went. At his fifth request, I asked him if he really did need to go and he began to pee in his pants. Luckily, we were prepared with a change of pants and clean undies. It didn't make a mess, just a little hassle going back and forth to the potty in a very crowded restaurant.

Nap time yesterday was a struggle. He was up every 5 seconds pulling new toys into his bed, and he had two accidents in his room while he was supposed to be sleeping. It was a long 2 hours until he finally went to sleep.

Today was much better. He didn't have any accidents. He woke up really early this morning and came into our room. I took him to go potty, changed him into his big boy undies and he got him bed with us for a much needed additional 30 minutes. Cory was sweet and got up with him so I could sleep a little longer. He napped much better today. Got up a couple of times, and then Cory went in there and actually rocked him to sleep! Not an everyday occurrence, by any means, but it worked for today! We ran a couple of errands after all the snow melted, and he did great. He asked to go potty at Target, but it was a no go. He was, however, impressed with the automatic flush on the potty, "WOW!"

We got new bedding for his toddler bed. It's really cute with robots. I want to repaint his room now, so that will be next on our to-do list.

Avery's New Big Boy Bed

As we typically do things around here, we are knocking out another milestone this week. Avery is sleeping in his new big boy bed tonight for the very first time! A big thanks to Angela who so generously donated her outgrown toddler bed to us. I got home from work and Cory had already disassembled Avery's crib and put it in the garage. I was a little taken aback at first. I wasn't quite ready for that, but in the end, it saved me the long drawn-out good bye with the crib.

Avery refers to his new bed as his "little bed." He asked me, "Hey, where'd my big bed go?" I told him that he was looking at his new big boy bed, and he told me that it was his "little bed." I love the innocence of a child's mind. It truly is a little bed.

He loved it and climbed right in when I told him it was time for bed. I walked out of the room and asked Cory if he cared to make a wager on how many times he would get out of bed tonight. We both would have lost. I think I heard him talk for maybe 30 seconds, and then he was out like a light. Now we will just have to see if he will actually get out of bed in the morning or if he will still call out for me

As for the potty training. I think we are pretty much there, folks! Avery did a fantastic job today at Jeanette's. No accidents! My baby is really growing up. It makes me kind of sad...I guess it's time for another one!

Adventures in Potty Training

Just a fun little video from our days at home last weekend.

He's Just Such a Big Boy

Today at work I received a sweet little picture from Avery's sitter, Jeanette. They were practicing relaxation techniques on the potty! He just looks so big sitting there reading on the potty. It cracks me up!

The only accident Avery had today was at nap time. He woke up really early this morning, so by nap time he was pretty exhausted. I was told he was sleeping pretty heavily; so much that he was talking in his sleep! He must have been so sound asleep he couldn't wake up in time to go potty, and Jeanette said he was pretty upset by it. He had a pretty rough day after that; crying at every little thing. Poor guy! Other than that, no real accidents. He did give Jeanette a bit of a shower during one potty break. Sorry Jeanette!

He's doing great, though!

Day Two Back at the Sitter's

Today was much, much better for Avery at the sitter's. He didn't have any peep pee accidents the whole day, and he even went poop on the big potty early in the morning. They had one minor accident, where he said he needed to go potty, but right as she was getting him ready to go on the potty, he started to poop in his pants. I know it sounds gross, but really that is much easier to clean up than pee!

So, overall I would say we are all pretty please with Avery's progress. He also seems to be pretty proud of himself. As we were confined to the house for those 4 days, Avery decided he would practice his skill of climbing in and out of his crib. Then, last night when Cory and I were sitting on the couch well after we put Avery down for the night, we hear a loud thud. Cory went into Avery's room to check on him, and there he was. Just standing there, holding on to his bed, smiling because he was so proud of himself. It looks like he will be getting a big boy bed this weekend.

My baby isn't a baby anymore...so sad!

Enjoy this video of my silly little child. He will hate me when he's older for this!

Avery's First Day Back

Today marked the ever important test of sending Avery off to daycare after his potty training adventure. I must say I was a little skeptical about how well he would do using someone else's potty, and about the fact that his sitter only has a potty ring while he has only been using the little potty at our house.

Let me first say that Cory brought Avery up to see me at work yesterday, and our little guy actually used the big, public potty at my office! I was very impressed. Cory tried to get him to use the potty ring yesterday while they were at home, but he really wasn't too interested. However, this morning I put him on the big potty and he did just fine. We also have decided to go ahead and use pull-ups at night, as of last night. Sunday night he wet the bed twice, and I could tell that it was really damaging to his self esteem. Avery very much wants to please us and make us proud and to see how upset he was with himself just broke my heart. He doesn't deserve to feel that way, and truthfully it is asking alot of a little 26.5-month-old to be able to hold his tiny little bladder at night. So, on to the pull-ups.

Back to the sitter story. I dropped Avery off this morning around normal time and went in with him to give his sitter, Jeanette, a run-down on what we have been doing the past 5 days. As of this morning, Avery hadn't had a pee-pee accident since late Saturday afternoon. We were all pretty impressed. I explained to her what he does when he needs to go and things that he might say. I sent a billion pairs of underwear just in case and two extra pairs of shorts. By 10am, Jeanette had sent me a text message saying, "No accidents. He just told me he had to go pee pee, so I took him to the bathroom, but I didn't realize he didn't know how to point 'it' down, so pee went everywhere, lol". So, there went the first pair of shorts. I didn't hear anything back from her until I sent her a text around 3pm to see how things were going. Evidently, he woke up dry from his nap, but for some reason wouldn't go potty when he woke up. He kept saying, about 8 times I'm told, that he need to potty, but he would just cry and want to get down. He then had two back-to-back accidents; therefore, the other two pairs of shorts were rendered unusable.

Overall, Jeanette thinks we are headed in the right direction. She thinks we are doing the right thing with him and that he definitely has the communication down. I think he just needs to get back into his routine at her house, and he will be just fine.

First day back, not a total win, but not really a disaster either.