Dance Along

You can't really hear Elmo singing as well as I thought but still cuteness all over :)

There's something so cute about little kids dancing. Last week at taco night the kiddos found a Hokey Pokey Elmo and while Adam has been dancing along with him for a while, this was the first time Natalia really got into as well

Charlie had to get in and show them how it was  done. Their faces are just so cute!! I think we were all crying from laughing so hard.  

Adam looks like he is just running around waving his arms in a circle but I think that was his attempt to put his left arm in, take his left arm out, etc....

 Watching Natalia try and shake like Elmo was HILARIOUS!! You can tell she's definitely starting to get the hang of dancing. I love watching these two play together. Some times there are tears, and not sharing and typical toddler tantrums (can you say that 3x fast :D) but you can tell that they love to play together. I can't wait until the other cousins get to join in the fun too!

Milestones

This week marks a few milestones here at Casa de Hubert.


Adam is "officially" potty trained. I say officially in quotes because he still wears a pull up to bed and he does have an occasional accident, but for the most part he is potty trained. It actually went pretty quickly and there was a surprising lack of accidents. Sure, he did have some, but I bet the amount was in the single digits. I always said that once he decided to give it a go, it would be full steam ahead. Glad to know I was right :) 

A few weeks ago we were at Steph's baby shower and there was a pool, he wanted to go in there sooo bad. I had forgotten to bring a suit.  Luckily Steph's sis in law lived across the street and loaned us a pair. He normally loves playing in the water, splashing around and jumping on the steps. Well, this time he pretty disturbed that he couldn't swim like the other kids. Anytime someone asked him if he went swimming that day he would say "no, i don't know how to swim". He's such a literal kind if guy. So I took it as an opportunity to motivate the potty training and told him that once he was trained we would enroll him into swim classes. done and done. he will begin classes July 11th :)


Miss Jocelyn Ann is 2 months old this week. She is starting to notice her surroundings more and more. She will smile when tickled, follow with her eyes if you move out of her eye sight and try to stick your finger in her mouth when holding on to it.
This past week we have been off on her sleep schedule, she was doing so well then I put it out on the internet and voila. Back to not sleeping through the night. :( I do enjoy the bonding and quiet time with her but I have noticed I am definitely a little more cranky on those days when we have to get up multiple times.
I'm not sure about her weight/height right now and her next appointment isn't until next week. :( I was weighing her at home by weighing myself then subtracting the weight of the 2 of us to get hers but I think this isn't very accurate. My scale gives .1-.9 pounds but the doctor uses ounces (16 in a pound) so when I get a difference of 9.9 pounds I think she is growing like crazy which could be true or it could be too high since not really showing ounces. I guess we'll have to wait until next week to know for sure.

Other than that, not much going on here. Yesterday was Father's Day, we just hung out at home and then ordered food from a local Mexican restaurant. It was what Jeff wanted to do but I had hoped to get outside and play for a bit. It has been so cold and rainy here lately and yesterday was what looks like the beginning of our actual summer weather. I will admit to having cabin fever and wanting to do all the fun summer activities that we would normally be doing by now. When Jeff said he would rather be low key and hang at home I got a little bummed. I am so ready for the heat and fun of summer. Trips to local lakes and water parks. Granted Jocelyn is a little young for some of the stuff we'd be doing, I'm sure I can find a babysitter for her some where ;) hehehe


Guess I better get to the laundry while she is still sleeping and Adam is entertained playing in his room. Hoping to get some pictures posted soon.. I usually write these posts on my laptop on the couch since it's more comfy but it's not where we store our pictures. So I'm usually too lazy to go to the other computer to add the photos. I have a hard enough time writing the post in the first place, if I have to edit it at the other computer who knows how long it would take to post these :)

A Potty Story

**** FAIR WARNING - THIS IS A POST ALL ABOUT BODILY FUNCTIONS OF A 3 YEAR OLD, and a rather long one at that  ****


Sunday night came and we discovered that we were down to the last diaper for Adam,and I asked him if he wanted to start wearing big boy undies. He normally says he wants to keep wearing diapers but that time he chose the undies. Sunday morning he woke up and we asked again, should we run to the store for diapers or was he going to start using the potty. Again he said no to diapers, so we out him in pull ups and told him he needed to tell us when he needed to go. Now we've tried the pull up thing before with no success. He'd always go in them and then say that the pee went away. I think they were too close to diapers for him to tell the difference but I figured it was a place to start. The first part of the day we weren't having any luck. He had peed in his pull ups multiple times and there hadn't been any in the potty. At noon Jocelyn and I left to go to a baby shower so it was just Daddy and Adam at home to carry on. I got a text while out saying that after yet another accident Daddy decided the pull ups weren't working so he striped him down to nothing and told him there was nothing to catch the pee so he had to either sit on the potty or go outside. Daddy also told him that he could have a OtterPop if he peed in potty or outside twice so after many accidents he managed to pee outside twice and once on the potty.

Monday we started over again with a fresh plate and a naked toddler. It seemed like him being without clothes worked best. Those pull ups weren't working during the day (we use them at night since he's not use to waking up to pee) and the undies were just getting in the way. We also discovered that he didn't like sitting down to pee and wanted to stand up like daddy does. He managed to pee standing up in the toilet, he's not a fan of the potty chair we got him, quiet a few times in the morning/early afternoon. Then I started getting the house ready to have people over for a Pampered Chef party and wasn't watching him like I should. I noticed the smell first, then heard the foot steps running to the bathroom. As I walked back there I saw 3 small pieces of poo on the floor. Our first poo accident. :(
After cleaning him up we put on some undies since "you can't be naked when people are here" and went about over day. I sort of blame myself for the lack of parenting the rest of the night that resulted in another poo episode. I did notice at one point that he was peeing outside while playing with some friends. But overall Monday evening wasn't a great success but we were see some progress.

Tuesday was the third day of training and started off with a pee in the potty. YAY! We had continued success with peeing standing up at the "big potty" and he got a few OtterPops. lol. I was waiting for the time when he would need to poo since we had yet to go on the potty. I kept asking ans asking and at one point he sat on the potty for probably 20 minutes because I was certain he was going to poop. The day before when he had his first poo accident I had asked him if he had to go and he said no then not even 5 minutes later he was running down the hall. So I didn't want to let him up thinking that as soon as I did he would have an accident. Well, he never did poo but said he had to pee so I called it a wash. We had told him that if he went poop in the potty he would get a Push Up Pop instead of the OtterPop and he was really wanting one. He went running back there and Jeff went to see what he was doing. I hear him say "do you want to green seat (top of the potty chair) or to hold yourself up on the big potty?" Being the rockstar that he is he chose to hold himself up and managed to poo on the potty!! Huge excitement all around. At that point I decided I couldn't put off going to the store and he said he wanted to go with. I asked him if he wanted to wear the pull ups or undies. He chose the undies and while I was a little scared I followed his lead and let him wear the undies. Our first successful trip out of the house ensued. We only had one accident Monday.

So far this morning (day 4 of training) we have been doing great. Peed three times this morning and is loving the stickers he gets to put on the chart. I've pretty sure that he is getting the hang of it and am super proud of the progress he has made in the past 4 days!



UPDATE: Since posting this he has done the potty dance and barely missed the toilet and also had a poo accident. Hopefully I didn't jinx it by posting this earlier than should have. Fingers crossed to no more accidents

one day i'll be able to post regularly.....

 

 

 

 

They were both just staring at the screen, enchanted by Mickey and his Clubhouse

I had originally planned to keep a weekly update of Jocelyn's growth and the happenings around here but as it sometimes does time has gotten away from me. I can't believe that she is 5 weeks already. I weighed her the other day and I may have messed it up but I calculated her at 8.8 pounds. For some reason that seems like a lot to me but I guess we'll see how much she really does weigh at her 2 month appointment in a few weeks.
Lately we've just been hanging out at home, the weather has been kind of stinky. Rainy and Cold. :(
Can't wait for it to be warm and sunny for more than one day, I have visions of playing in the back yard and visiting the local parks. I know she'll be a little young to go to the local lakes but mom has offered to babysit so Adam and I can go. 
Jeff and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary on Tuesday. We had tossed the idea of leaving the kids with some one and going out to a nice dinner but in the end we decided to stay home and hang with the kids. Seemed fitting since this is our live now. I am just grateful that I found someone that I want to spend the "nothing days" with. You know those days that you don't do anything and you barely have enough energy to take a shower/change out of the pjs. :)

 

My SIL took monthly pic with my niece so I thought I'd give it a try :)

She spit up right after I took some pics so I figured better get some semi-naked baby pics

Adam has become such a great big brother I can't believe how great he is with her. He is always trying to put her pacifier back in if she spits it out. He has on more than one occasion tried to get her to play with him. He is always worried when she cries, he goes and checks on her and reports back. Telling us if she's hungry or tired or "just talking". I couldn't ask for a better first born/bigger sibling. He never gets mad when I have to say "just a minute" or "not now, I'm feeding Jocelyn".

Such a amazing big brother <3