I guess you need to know that Garrett is almost 32 months (2 1/2 years old), and Abbie just turned 19 months (1 1/2 years old). They keep me VERY BUSY...there's never a dull moment at our house! :) You should also know that Garrett was in Mother's Day Out this past school year...that's when I got side-tracked and stopped posting his first week of school. Anyway...he started a month before turning two, and all the other kids were potty-training, so I started that dreaded feat. So he's been in pull ups for over 6 months now! I HATE POTTY TRAINING!!! I'm ready for it to finally "click!" We have good days and we have bad days...I will say he's just about got number two down, so we're just working on keeping the big boy underwear DRY! I know, that's backwards from how most people potty train, but I'd much rather throw the tee tee underwear in the wash, than clean poop out of them! What can I say..we're backwards! :) My goal is by the end of the summer to be fully potty trained! Start the new school year in big boy underwear. So since we've been hitting the potty training hard now that it's summer, Abbie has decided she's interested in the potty too! I always joked that I'd just potty train them together, since boys take longer and girls pick it up faster...but it might actually be true! She just wants to do what Garrett is doing...has no concept whatsoever about actually tee teeing in the potty. She has gone once or twice, but every time she sits on the potty she thinks she's going..which is not the case! LOL We now have TWO potties out and sometimes they are both in use...
Two for the price of one!
Now for the last two weeks they've both been in swimming lessons out in Silsbee with Mrs. Sherry McKee. I signed Garrett up for it, and figured Abbie was still too little to do it. But, when we went the first day, Sherry told me she was old enough. Since we will be around several pools this summer, I wanted her to learn some water safety, so on day two...Abbie joined the class! Oh, she kicked and screamed and carried on, but I made her stay and didn't pull her out. I got in the pool on the Wednesday and Thursday of last week to work with her, but this week she was left in the class without mommy. She finally learned to wait her turn and do what the teacher asks her yesterday...the day before lessons ended. :( Oh well, she'll be back in the class again next summer!
Their class was Monday - Thursday from 11am-12pm the last two weeks. Well, Abbie worse herself out kicking and screaming and crying for an hour, so she's been taking GREAT naps after lunch every day. Garrett has pretty much cut his nap out since school ended. If he gets a nap, he wont go to bed before midnight! I have been putting down his nap mat from school, and putting Cars on, and he has "rest time" when Abbie's napping! But swimming lessons have worn him out! He's been taking some good naps! Here's a picture of him, "not tired at all!"
Last week, I went into the Dollar Tree for one thing, and came out with that item, bubbles for Abbie, and this foam sword that Garrett picked out! I never do something like that, but we had run in and out of several stores on errands that morning, and they both were pretty good for me, so I figured we could get prizes! I didn't realize until we were on the way home that he thought it was a gun! He kept saying something about a gun, and I kept telling him that it was a sword, but he insisted on it being a gun. I felt kind of bad, and thought maybe to go back and get another one to show him what swords were for and what they do..you know a teachable moment to introduce new vocabulary words! But then I figured out what he kept saying! He got a gun like daddy and was "gettin' those kitty cats!" LOL Please don't go turn us in for trying to decrease the kitty cat population in our neighborhood! I was fine until the peed on both strollers in the garage, Michael's golf bag, grass-cutting tennis shoes, and anything else canvas in the garage! The last straw was when they somehow peed somewhere up under both vehicles, and the smell got into the cars for a few days...that's when we started taking matters into our own hands....but I digress!
This is Garrett "gettin' those kitty cats" with his gun! I guess he's seen Michael hold the gun up and aimming, and that's what I think he's doing! :) This day, in this moment, was when I realized I needed to start blogging again! Too many funny things I need to write about and remember! Too cute! Besides, they both do so much every day that drives me nuts, I need to remember and focus on these good times! LOL
Abbie has entered her terrible two stage about 6 months early! She is why I have to dye my gray hair every few weeks! She is the most stubborn, hard-headed, head-strong, bull-of-a-kid I've ever met! She's not the cute little girly-girl I always dreamed of at all! Don't get me wrong, I love her to death...but sometimes...ugh that girl makes me want to pull all my hair out! At least then I wont have to waste my time and money to dye it all the time! I have even purchased and have started reading, The Strong-Willed Child, by Dr. James Dobson! She has an attitude on her too ALREADY! I know, you're all thinking, "she gets it honest!" And I will admit, yes, she does get it honest from both Michael and I, but I'm pretty sure most of it is from Michael...there's no way I was THIS hard-headed! :)
This is her new face she's been making lately...Michael HATES it! I just have to laugh, because it is SUCH a HONEY face!!! LOL
Well, I guess that's it for now. I'm so relieved to finally make my first new post. I'm gonna try to do better at keeping up with it from here on out, but I'm not promising anything! :)
