Imma coming up on two birthdays in less than
a month. What!? Can’t wait, though. I’ve always LOVED my own birthday (still do,
not ashamed), but I am beyond words excited as my kids get older to be able to
do awesome things for their birthdays to make them completely memorable. So, as I begin to think about their upcoming
celebrations (can I get a quick AMEN for Pinterest) I wanted to jot down a
couple of milestones Evie and Cohen are hitting right now.
First up, my girl.
Evie is almost 3, and we are hitting up the potty training. Hard core.
To be honest, she’s struggled with this much more than I expected her
to. And I’m almost exactly as
bad/impatient with it as I thought I’d be.
I guess I figured that because she’s so smart she’d figure out the whole
pee-in-the-pot-not-in-my-drawers concept a little faster. I’m slowly figuring out that there may not
actually be as much of a correlation there as I thought. Damn.
We definitely had a rough start
with it. Though, I’ll go ahead and put
most of the blame on Brant and me with that one. We definitely relied on diapers as a backup
too much, and we just never REALLY went for it.
So, a couple of weeks ago I decided that I had had enough of buying
diapers for two kids, and we were going to get Miss Francis trained once and
for all.
It hasn’t been completely smooth
sailing by any means. We still have our
fair share of accidents around the house, but since we ditched the diapers and
have only been sporting Dora and Hello Kitty panties around here, Evie has done
MUCH better. She’s really starting to
hate the feeling of her underwear being wet, and she’s doing better at telling
me when she’s needs to go (as opposed to me
always asking her).
As for Mr. Elway, he has finally started to pull himself up. He’s a bit behind, as most kiddos is age have been doing that for a bit (or so I read), but I’m not concerned. Evie was always a motor skill slacker too, and she’s pretty awesome and caught up by now. On that note, however, don’t expect the old “he took his first steps” post for. a. while. Thinking he’s going to take his time with that one. That’s ok with Mom, though. Dude gets around enough as it is.
As for Mr. Elway, he has finally started to pull himself up. He’s a bit behind, as most kiddos is age have been doing that for a bit (or so I read), but I’m not concerned. Evie was always a motor skill slacker too, and she’s pretty awesome and caught up by now. On that note, however, don’t expect the old “he took his first steps” post for. a. while. Thinking he’s going to take his time with that one. That’s ok with Mom, though. Dude gets around enough as it is.
LOVE these amazing kiddos. It’s so awesome to get to watch them learn
new things every single day. Except when
Evie learned to say “shut up.” That
wasn’t as cool.
