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Sassy

This morning Kenny was watching a cartoon in our bedroom.

Daddy enter room: "Kenny, whatcha doin' bud?"
Kenny says in an exacerbated tone: "What does it look like I'm doing? You're not blind!"

2 Month Checkup

Weight: 9 lbs. 13 oz.
Height: 21 inches

Difference from last appointment: 2 pounds and 1 inch

He checked out great and got his two month shots. The doctor wants him to put on more weight. What can I say...I have little kids.

Missing My Flowers

You probably haven't noticed, but it is mid-March and I haven't posted anything about planting an obscene number of flowers or putting in the garden I desperately want to have. Thanks to Hurricane Ike we are getting ready to do some major home renovation projects in the next two months (new siding, fascia, sofit, gutters, shutters, roof, garage ceiling, bedroom window replacement, porch roof, not to mention repainting front door, trim, garage door and reorganizing). We are also looking at getting a new air conditioning unit that actually works properly and pour/lay a new porch since ours is wood and starting to rot (we're scared of getting termites). All this in combination with a newborn means no time or money for a garden or flowers.

And I am MISSING it!! I've keep touturing myself by reading about how a start a garden and looking at stores for good flower prices. I don't know why I keep doing that, but I can't stop! Maybe this fall when things have settled down we can plant a garden. I've already started planning it out. The good thing about living in coastal Texas is you can garden all year.

Until then I will just have to content myself with my one beautiful pot of geraniums that survived the winter.

(Photo taken last year)

Baby Sling

This is my new favorite thing. It allows my clingy little sweetheart to be close to me and his big brothers the chance to be fed and generally cared for. Until I got this bad boy about 2 weeks ago I was having a hard time accomplishing even the simplest tasks because James wants to be held close all the time. Though he is getting better, he is still not very happy exploring his world. He wants to be smashed against your body all day. Now I can strap him on and go about my day. I don't have to listen to him cry everytime I have to set him down. I love having him close without having to sacrifice things like cooking dinner or caring for my other kiddos.

That's It!

I have always heard that boys are harder to potty train than girls. My experince supports that theory. Let's face it, most boys are pretty okay with being dirty and a bit stinky. Attribute that to the "caveman manliness factor" I suppose. Most know about Kenny and his...shall we say...issues with using the restroom. And by "issues" I mean pure-cussed stubborness.

Needless to say he traumatized me. We didn't push Nathan and were going to let him try on his own time. We have been working with him since last fall. He is more than willing to go to the bathroom if he is taken. However, he is totally fine with crapping on himself. And taking the time to initiate using the potty- he could care less. The real kicker is that he is perfectly capable of staying dry and has for several hours at a time.

When we would switch him to undies we would always revert back to diapers after a few days because he kept peeing/pooping himself and we figured he wasn't ready.

Well, we are done playing the game. He is 4 years old and knows how to use the potty. We have used up all the diapers in the house and we have not bought anymore. We did get pull-ups for bedtime. We told Nathan that he is old enough and knows how to use the potty and we will not put him back in a diaper.

Let the power struggle being!

Today we have been through 7 pairs of Lightening McQueen undie-roos. After each accident he would ask for a diaper. But we have held firm. We explain that he is old enough and knows how to use the potty and we do not have any diapers. There was one hour this evening when I asked him if he needed to go 3 times. Even when he said "no" I told him to try. During that same hour he peed on himself twice. The real kicker is that we went grocery shopping and he stayed perfectly dry during that time.

So day one hasn't gone very well. But we will not give in! I am done spending a fortune on diapers.

**There is a silver lining to having late potty trainers. We can blame their lack of a college fund on the cost of all those extra years of cleaning their ...

Deer In The Headlights Look

James is an expert at the bug-eyed look.