Days 2 and 3

So I'm pretty much not counting Sunday because we were gone all day and both kids had a pretty hard time.  As of today, I feel like Cooper is pretty much potty trained.  Today she woke up dry and had NO pee accidents, even with a car ride to Paris and back.  Axl is staying dry for MUCH longer periods of time in the day, but is still very reluctant and puts up a fight with the potty.  At one point he was crying, "I want my daddy" in the bathroom.  Not sure what Les (and probably the neighbors) thought I was doing to him in there...; not sure what I'm going to do with him.  Didn't get many stickers on the chart today because we spent the day with Leslie and then came back to Nicholasville for dinner with Daddy at Zaxby's, but many potty treats were earned.  :)   

Sunday Funny:  Cooper asked to go to the potty like three times during Sacrament and I ran her out every time only for stage fright.  After it was over I was chatting with someone and she told me rather urgently about the pee-pee.  I snatched her up and ran her to the bathroom, noticed her pull-up was wet, but sat her on the toilet and asked if she had any more pee-pee.  She replied, "No, we gotta clean up the floor." 

Potty Training Day 1

Well, here it is.  I think a success.  Though, I'm not going to lie; it was pure torture.  Axl had 3 accidents, Cooper had about 7 or 8.  Still no #2 success from either.  All of Cooper's success came after dinner, so I have high hopes for tomorrow.  Now, if she would just stop yelling at me from bed to go pee I'll be ok.  :)

Some Funnies

Axl says all the time "It's gonk in here." (dark)

A couple days ago while wrestling with Dad, Axl covered Tyler's mouth and said, "Shut up now!" Tyler and I looked at each other with the widest eyes and then attacked him with "We do NOT say that!"
After speaking with Natalee about the recent vocabulary, she relayed a story about driving in the car. She was on the phone and doing her best to ignore Axl asking repeatedly, "Going to Nat's House, Nat??" He then finally got frustrated, I guess, and said, "Shut up, Nat, we going to Nat's house?".

The other night my parents were over and my mom was helping me get the kids to bed. When tucking Axl in I told him I loved him. He said back,
"I love you, too, mom." which is the usual. He then told me to wait and said,
"I love you more". We haven't really ever used that terminology so I thought it was cute and said, "No, I love you more!" He replied,
"Mommy, I love you most." Seriously? How cute is that.

Axl has never been a "namer" of things. Thus we have bunny bear. He wouldn't really even name a fish we got for him, so Tyler ended up naming it Stan. The other night when putting him to bed he held up the giant carrot we got him from IKEA. He says, "Mom, This is Turdy. Turdy has eyes." Tyler and I have laughed and laughed at the fact that the first thing Axl decides to name, he graces with "Turdy".

Cooper has heard a lot of us talking to Axl about how he is a boy and mommy is a girl and daddy is a boy and cooper is a girl, etc. etc. (All due to the fact that I told Axl a long time ago that princess dresses were for girls and he couldn't really handle that. Another story.) Anyway, Cooper looked at Tyler today, pointed at him and yelled, "BOY!"

Cohabitation.

In the event that we don't have any more children, I feel this overwhelming pressure to make sure my kids like each other. Or at least have a relationship. So, operation make them share a room while it's not awkward that they are boy and girl complete. :)

(After we moved and tucked them back in.)

My babies are growing up.

Mostly I was tired of the toddler bed in our room taking up space. I figured we would approach it the same way we did with Axl...just put it in the room and start her out in it at naps and bedtime just to get her used to it. This afternoon, the shoe drawer was just too tempting so she ended up back in the crib, but tonight I just went in to see this. :)

(side note: If Erin or Erica are reading this, please still come get the bed whenever you need it. :) Coop and I will have fun picking out a new one!)

(Amanda, the blanket it perfect and oh, so snuggly!)

Also--I'm on Fall Break and I kept Axl home from school and stayed home from the gym to get some serious potty training in. The morning was seriously unsuccessful. We made a potty chart with a picture of some roller skates at the end. Axl was so excited that he would NOT get off the potty, but could also NOT pee. I would say that he probably sat on the potty for atleast 2 hours total just this morning. When I pried him off of it because I was tired of sitting there he cried and cried for roller skates...poor guy. He finally peed on the potty once (Well, he said he did and I saw just a little drip) after Tyler got home, and tonight before bath I asked Tyler to show him peeing standing up. Worked like a charm. Too bad I am the one home this week, because, well...peeing standing up for me would be quite difficult. Anyway, he went to bed with 2 stickers. :) Maybe we're getting somewhere...

Funnies

Tonight at Penn Station Axl kept trying to "claim" the large fry we had ordered to share as a family. "Dese are my fries," shoving them all into his corner of the basket. Tyler quickly snatched up a handful to put in his basket, I guess hoping Axl wouldn't notice. Axl looked up at Tyler and said, "Are you tidding me?".

On the way home from dinner I asked Cooper if she was ready for night night since she was being awfully cranky. Tyler then said, "Are you guys ready for night night?" and Axl replies, "Aye Aye Taptain". And, no, we do not watch Spongebob; Tyler thinks it came from "Pirate Movie" (Peter Pan).

Maybe I'll have more luck with her??