Ethan's Page: August 2010

Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Potty Training Continues

Ethan is doing so well with potty training. It's been 8 days since we started and by day 4 he wasn't having any accidents. He was even telling us that he had to potty. So he went Monday & Tuesday all day without having a single accident. He did have a couple accidents yesterday one was just b/c I couldn't get him to sit on the potty long enough in the morning to finish peeing & the other accident happened while we were having lunch with daddy. Ethan stood up & told us "potty" and pointed to himself so I walked quickly from the cafeteria to the bathroom but unfortunately it took us too long but Ethan was making the attempt & that's what counts. Today I took him to Target & bought him big boy underwear. He was very excited over that. Every morning he asks me for his "unerwear" he insists that he get to wear his underwear. For the most part he is completely day trained, about 90%. He just needs to feel comfortable pooping on the potty. He waits until nap time when I put him in a diaper (he is not sleep trained just yet) to do his business. I keep telling him if he poops on the potty not only will mommy and daddy be so proud but we will give him 4 cookies. He only gets 1 cookie for peeing on the potty. He'll get there, I hope sooner rather than later. Since he is only wearing diapers when he is sleeping I have decided it's time to do away with the changing table, so I will be converting it to a dresser today. This means we are going to move his frogs into his room. He loves his frogs he likes to help feed them. They will look good in his room. We are yet to get his room painted hopefully we will be able to get that done soon.

Yesterday Ethan learned he has got to hang onto Moose. I took him to have lunch with daddy & since we were running late I gave him a piggy back into the hospital & up to daddy's dept. As we were walking out Ethan screamed "Moose". I told him "You didn't bring Moose where do you see Moose?" I look to where he is pointing & there sitting on the information desk is Moose. Someone found him in the parking lot & was going to throw him away but saw how tattered he was & thought he probably belonged to a kid so they turned him in at the desk. The person sitting at the desk thought Moose looked familiar so she set him out hoping his owner would see him and his owner did. I didn't even know that Ethan had brought Moose with him. I went out the back door before Ethan did & opened the car up for him to get in & realized that I had left my IPod & Phone in the house so I told Ethan to go get in the car as I ran back in quickly for my things. When I came back out he was sitting in his seat so I buckled him in & off we went. He must have set Moose on the seat beside him so I didn't see him. Then when I got him out of the car I had my back turned so he could climb aboard so I wouldn't have seen him grab him. I learned my lesson too, always check & see that he has Moose with him. Boy would that have been a mess when I got home & tried to put him to bed. Ethan won't go down to sleep w/o his best friend. I would have had a screaming toddler on my hands to try to calm down. Whew I am so glad that Moose was found!!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Let the Potty Training begin!!

Ready.....Set........Potty!! Yes that's right Ethan is yet again taking another stab at potty training. This time I am not letting him make the call he will be potty trained. LOL. I So today was Day 1 of his potty training. I had him in regular undies & every 30 min he was put on the potty. Since I am doing every 30 mins I have his potty in the living room for now. Otherwise I will be spending all my time running up & down the stairs & well let's face it that can get exhausting. When I get to the point where he is going every hour then I will move his potty to the bathroom. I am trying to get him to learn that he has to take a couple mins out of his busy schedule of playing to use the potty. If he pees on the potty he gets a special cookie (Nilla Wafer's). In a few days (if he starts to have dry undies every 30 mins) I will bump up the time to 40 mins. I am hoping to have this child potty trained during the day by the end of the week.

Yesterday Ethan & I went over to a friends house to give her a gift for her new little baby that is on the way (due in 7 wks). Ethan had a blast playing with her 19 month old little guy. I'll take him over again after she's had the baby. She said she will be on maternity leave in a couple weeks so I am welcome to bring Ethan over again so the boys can play. I have a couple pictures that I took with my phone that I will have at the end of this post of the boys playing. With them being so close in age Ethan has a nice little playmate.

Here are the pictures of Ethan & Isaac playing

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Birthdays & Fairs & Vacation OH MY!!!

What a busy few weeks this has been for Ethan. Saturday July 24th was his cousin's Macey & Kaitlin's birthdays. He went out for dinner with us to celebrate with Macey for her birthday. Then the next Sat. was his daddy's b-day. Ethan went shopping with me earlier in the week to purchase Matt's birthday gift then on Matt's birthday we took him out for a birthday brunch then later on we met with everyone for a birthday dinner for Matt where we gave him his gift. Everyone chipped in to get him an IPod Touch. THEN the next day we took Ethan to the Lucas County Fair. He had a blast!! He got to see horses, cows, sheep, goats, & he went on a little pony ride. He left the fair with a few prizes b/c MomMom & Dada kept winning at the games. His wagon was so full at one point that he barely had room to sit!! He loves his prizes though. Later that night he went with us to the final Music Under the Stars concert. He had a great time mooching cookies from his Grammy Judy. Ethan really enjoys listening to the music. He was clapping along with the songs & asking the band to sing when they would finish a piece. Tues we took him to Port Clinton for a little mini vacation to Matt's uncle's condo. We took him for a bike ride, played a little tennis while Ethan sort of shagged balls for us, went swimming, & enjoyed the view of the lake from the porch. It was the first time he has ever slept away from home. He did OK it took some time for us to get him down but he was quiet for the night by 9:45. We took his pack & play so that he would have his own bed to sleep in. Ethan has never co-spept & he has always had his own room, so he is used to having his own space. It worked out well in the end for him. Yesterday we took him to the Wild African Safari. He had so much fun watching the monkey's swing in the trees & he enjoyed the pig races as well. He was not to fond of the drive through safari. He became quite intimidated by the animals sticking their heads in the windows. He decided that he wanted to just sit in his car seat & watch through the closed window. We had so much fun feeding the animals. Some of the Buffolo were big ole piggies. Matt had one that refused to get it's head out of the window so Matt showed it a carrot then threw the carrot out the window. In the mean time I was dealing with another Buffolo that thought I had more food so it was attacking me with it's tongue. Matt started smacking it on the nose telling it "No More" to get it out of the window. The long Horned Steer were not as bad they took their share & moved onto the next car. Ethan really started to get into it towards the end & started feeding the deer. When we got to the giraffes I lifted him through the moon roof so his arm could reach. He got freaked out by their long tongues & yelled no at them then started throwing carrots out the roof at the giraffe. I had a blast feeding the giraffe it was actually pretty cool. After we left the safari we went back to the condo went for a swim then we all showered & got our things packed up to go home. 1 night there was plenty this time for Ethan. We hope to do a weekend sometime in Sept. That should be a good time. So I have tons of pictures to post at the end of this entry. Matt is still on vacation through tomorrow then it is back to work for him. It's been a great week. We are looking forward to the Fulton County Fair that starts Sept. 3.

Here are the pictures from the Fair