Welcome Ashton!

We have had a few changes in our life this weekend and have welcomed them with open arms! Ashton is a precious little boy that God has placed in our life! He will be with us for the time being and we are thankful to have him in our home.

He arrived Friday night and Gammy and I took him and Colby to the Florence Homecoming game. The boys had a blast but wouldn't leave the poor eagle alone. I think Colby gave him about 20 high fives.

Class of 99 was at the game celebrating their 10 year reunion, it was great to see everyone! I can't believe it will be our 10 year reunion next year...time has flown by. I was walking in front of the cheerleaders and one called me Mam. I know she should have, after all I am pregnant and holding a toddler on my hip which screams to her.....old lady. It doesn't seem long ago that I was standing in her position getting ready to start a cheer and thinking about how old people were if they were at the game celebrating their 10 year reunion. Ha, now I know it's not old at all.

Saturday we rode bikes at Gammy's house.

Bike Racing

Sunday we enjoyed the Fall Festival at church!

Ashton getting spider man painted on his cheek.

Colby would not get out of the space jump..he jumped his little heart out!

This morning we went to story time at the library and made pumpkin necklaces...
heard a funny story..

built a lego tower..

and sang a lot of fun songs!!!

We stopped by the park on the way home and Chris was on lunch break so he got to join us. The weather was perfect!


Look at that hair!

Potty Dance

I know Colby will want to kill me one day for posting these videos, but I hope he will also find the humor in it all!


Colby 22 months old- Potty Time

This was right after he did his business..that's why he already has his sucker. He sits there forever and says "no" when I ask if he is all done. I guess he wants to make sure, LOL!

This was after he dumped his poo in the big potty....enjoy the potty dance!

Potty Update

I'm still so thrilled with how great Colby is doing! I have changed my opinion in the last week. I guess the experts do know a little because they were right about ditching the pull-ups. Colby didn't care if he went in the pull-up because he couldn't feel it...it's just like a diaper. If he has underwear on then he tells us 99.9 % of the time. He wore his underwear to church Sunday and told us both times during church. Everyone thought it was pretty funny when he yelled teetee in the middle of church. After I thought about it, pull-ups serve no purpose. If he wets the pull-up, I still have to take his shoes and pants off and put another pull-up on. The only difference is with underwear, I have to wipe his legs off and put a new pair of pants on. But, I have to do it less often..so it's a no brainer!
At one point I was questioning the early start potty training by Dr. Linda Sonna



but now I would recommend it to friend. After all, it promises that your child will be potty trained by the age of two and I can say it worked! It says that by using the techniques at a young age that your child can be potty trained anywhere between the ages of 12 months-2years. Colby was at the end of the spectrum but nonetheless he made it. Dr. Sonna says that this technique eliminates or greatly decreases the chances of being a bed wetter. She says that prolonged bed wetting is usually a result of late potty training. So, hopefully Colby will escape the chances of being a bed wetter since his father and I both were bed wetters for many years.

Colby is 22 months old and is:

100% potty trained at home when in the nude. If he is nude, he just goes when he needs to and doesn't even tell me.

99.9% at home in clothes. He usually tells me in time but he has an accident once every couple of days.

99.5% in underwear in public.

95% in pull-ups in public.

After talking to many parents and doing a lot of research I have come to this conclusion:

You can potty train early and it's a long process but it saves you a whole year or more of diaper changes and maybe many years of bed wetting or you can wait until three years old and potty train in just a few days. I guess it depends on how much work you are willing to do and how long you can stand cleaning poop!

When we are in public we have to take him constantly because sometimes he waits too late to tell us and we can't get to a restroom quick enough. He told me had to teetee going down the road and thank goodness I was passing a friends house and we were able to stop and use her bathroom. We do have one problem...Colby teetees when he gets mad. If we are home and he is nude then we say no and he stops and runs to the potty to finish but if he has on clothes, it's a problem. Hopefully he will grow out of this soon!

Potty Training is definitely an adventure to say the least!

Playgroup at Chucky Cheese

He was so excited to see Chucky!!

Caleb

Caleb & Chucky

Colby watching Mickey & Bradley play air hockey.

Colby's favorite ride!