It's been SO long!

I can't believe it's been since the end of March since I last posted. It's certainly not because my kids haven't done anything amusing. I guess things have just been really busy! I'll have to get caught up.

Target Practice

So, we've been on the potty training adventure with Casden. He's as hard-headed as they come, and he has really been digging his heels in about being anti-potty. Well, just in the last week or so, we've finally turned a corner on this adventure. He's getting it, he's interested. I haven't changed a poopy Casden pull-up/diaper in over a week. He hasn't had very many pee accidents either.

Up until this point, Casden pees sitting down on the potty seat. Tim has shown him a couple times how to pee standing up and has even thrown Cheerios in the potty to shoot at with his pee to entice Caz into some target practice. Casden was not interested.

I was home with the kids the other evening by myself (Tim had run out to Home Depot). Casden was yelling for me, so I came to see what he needed. He needed to go potty. Woo-hoo, because he told me--big step in and of itself as he doesn't usually do this, we usually just have to keep asking and reminding him. I get him into the bathroom and start getting the potty seat on, and he says, "No, mommy, I want to shoot Cheerios." So, I jump up and run for the Cheerios, toss a handful in the toilet, and do my best to assist him in his first stand-up pee. He finishes up and Padget meanders into the bathroom. "Why are there Cheerios in the potty?" she asks. "Casden peed standing up so he was shooting at them with his pee." She stands there for a minute, looking perplexed, and finally asks, "How did he make those come out?" (my laughter) "No, no, honey, they didn't come out of Casden, I threw them in the toilet!" "Oh, okay!" she says.

Aidric, the dog?

Aidric is now 8 months old. He doesn't have a lot of verbal activity unless you count the conversations that pretty much go like this:

Aidric: "Ah"
Mommy: "Ah"

Aidric: "Ahhahhh"
Mommy: "Ahhahhh"

Aidric: "Eh"
Mommy: "Eh"

(Repeat for minutes at a time!)

He also clicks (like Casden did at this age, too) and blows lots and lots of raspberries. However, Aidric does have a new laugh. He pretty much pants like a dog. I guess he spends too much time with Persy!

A beautiful day in the neighborhood...

Padget spent the afternoon at a friend's house, which happens to be in walking distance from our house. There is one busy stretch of road, but the rest is in neighborhoods. It was a beautiful day so I decided to take the boys for a stroll. I told Casden that I was taking the double-stroller and that he could walk until we hit the busy road and then he needed to jump on and ride. He asked, "Why mommy?" I said, "Because it's a busy road and I don't want you to get hit by a car." He looks at me and deadpans, "Thanks, mommy! I knew you liked me." Too funny--I couldn't make this stuff up!

Why can't you sleep, Casden?

As I've noted in previous posts, Casden has taken to getting out of his bed in the time after his bedtime, but before our bedtime. He goes to our bed, snuggles up under the covers, and goes to sleep. Well, Tim was getting sick of this so he instituted drastic measures--he started locking our bedroom door after we put Casden to bed.

Last night, Tim was downstairs in the basement on the treadmill, and I was camped out on the couch in the family room, surfing the web. BOTH Padget and Casden peek around the corner at me. I get up off the couch, Padget takes off for her bedroom, and Casden waits for me to walk with him up the stairs. We get to the top of the stairs, and I ask Casden, "Why are you awake?" Caz says, "Because I can't sleep." I ask him, "Why can't you sleep, Casden?" And he replies, "Because your door is locked." LOL! And you know it's the truth--he probably snuggles up in our bed and is out like a light. But not last night, he was thwarted. That's Casden for ya!

Baby Belly Laughs

Padget has a real knack for making Aidric laugh. I finally got him on video. Sorry for the poor quality--on the little digital camera--and it's not easy to hold Aidric one-armed and film with the other!

Padget was dressed in her hat and scarf (actually MY hat and scarf) as she was pretending to be scaling Mt. Everest. Of course!

The baby!

Aidric is currently under-represented in my blog, as he is only 6 months old and non-verbal! However, he did do something funny at his 6 month check-up. We walked into the doctor's office and the receptionist slid open the window for us to check in. As soon as he slid open the window, Aidric took one look at him, burped and then proceeded to blow raspberries. The receptionist laughed and said, "Yep, buddy, I know how you feel!" It was funny.

Aidric has learned to use rolling as a means of getting around...kindof. He can only roll left. So, he rolls left over and over and over until he gets stuck on something, screams until you move him back...and then he rolls left over and over and over until he gets stuck on something...etc., etc.!

One more thing that Aidric does that makes me laugh...he manages to blow raspberries into his bottles so he is actually blowing bubbles. He loves to do it. Neither Padget nor Casden did this--of course, they do it now in their cups with straws. So, this is new to me. But he ends up re-inflating the Playtex drop-in with all the air he's blowing into it. Kindof defeating the point of the drop-in, but oh well, he enjoys it!