Weekly update

Well I'm now officially addicted to Facebook. It seems like all my old grade school friends have come out of the woodwork and several of us recently had babies, what are the odds! Not sure how long it's gonna last though, it's just too time consuming. I have so much to do around the house and the boys are a full time job, that I certainly don't need any more distractions on the computer :)

This past week has been a roller coaster. The potty training is going so well, I keep him in a pull up at night because he isn't quite ready to make it 12 hours. Heck I can't! And I don't want him to have access to the house in the middle of the night yet. We've only had a handful of accidents this past week (we've only been trying for less than two weeks) and it's been several days since one has occured. I ask him most of the time if he needs to go potty, but lately he's telling me he has to go. Even the other day on the way home from the doctor; we were in the car 5 minutes from home and he told me had to potty. I told him we were almost home and not to potty in his pants. And he didn't! He made it all the way inside to the bathroom. I was impressed.

The other half of the roller coaster (the down side) has been his napping. He's really fighting me on naps. He is NOT ready to give them up yet, and I don't just say that because I'm not ready. Check out this picture of him in the car at 12:30.

He was exhausted. But if he falls asleep in the car, and I put him in his bed, he might have an accident. So I keep him all the way home from what ever activity or errand we are doing. Then he gets a second wind and refuses to nap. The other day we fought for almost 90 minutes. I was exhausted and had a huge headache after that. We'll figure it out. He napped for over 2 hours Friday and Saturday, so maybe he'll get back on track.

I took them both to the doctor on Tuesday. Cole had a bit of a cold and I wanted Dr. Hayes to check out his ears just to make sure he didn't have an infection. He was all good. I wasn't going to take Carter, but just minutes after I made the appointment he fell off the barstool in the kitchen onto the tile. He busted his mouth (the inside) and blood was everywhere. That is the second time in less than a week he had a mouth injury. She checked him out and said he tore his frenulum, but that was the other day - not from the barstool. She could see it was healing and should heal fine on its own. Poor kid.

While we were waiting for the doctor, Grandma had the kids in stitches while she was entertaining them with a slinky. I got a cell phone video of Cole cracking up. This poor kid was laughing so hard he was beat red and grasping for air. I could only take a 30 second clip, but this went on for several minutes.

I went to a baby shower yesterday and took Cole with me. So Brian had Carter most of the day and what fun they had. Carter is really in a Daddy phase these days. They went to the pool, did some yard work, played in the play room, etc. And Carter took a good nap so Brian got a little break. It's nice for them to have some one-on-one time. I think next weekend, we'll switch kids and I can get one-on-one with Carter and vice versa.