Hannah's First Steps

Guess who took her first steps today?!


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I don't get it!

My mom and I were comparing the Twilight book and movie today, discussing what we liked and didn't like about the movie, when Andrew walked in.

Andrew: "Are you you guys STILL talking about Twilight?! I've seen like a thousand commercials and it doesn't look interesting AT ALL!"

Splish Splash

Don't you like fun?!!

Logan: "Mom? You wanna play with me?"

Summer: "Sure. What should we play?"

Logan: "How 'bout LegoAna Jones (Lego Indiana Jones) on the Wii?"

Summer: "How 'bout something else? I don't really want to play Wii right now."

Logan: "But MOM, it's FUN!
DON'T YOU LIKE FUN?!!"

My Silly Logan

Logan: "Hey Mom, come take a look at DARTH SILLY!"

P.S. YES, those are UNDERWEAR he's wearing! Day THREE of no accidents! Yay Logan!

Just a Little POTTY Update...

I know you're all DYING to know how things are going on the potty front! Well, there has been a lot less fighting about sitting on the potty and a lot more stickers on his potty chart. On occasion, he has even been going without us asking him to! I think he only had one accident today (and we were outside playing, so I'm not really going to count that). And the most exciting news of all - yesterday...drumroll, please...WE GOT SOME POOPY IN THE POTTY! Woo-Hoo!

The things you get excited about as a parent!

Happy 7th Birthday, Andrew!

For his birthday dinner, Andrew asked for Italian Chicken and homemade cinnamon rolls.

Name: Andrew Bryan Anderson
Age: 7
School Teachers: Mrs. Bates and Mrs. Devine
Best Friends: Noah W. and Brian L.
Favorite Food: Italian Chicken
Favorite Book: The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes
Favorite Activity: swimming and playing Wii, especially Lego Indiana Jones
Favorite Movies: Star Wars (of course!) especially Episode III:Revenge of the Sith
Favorite TV show: The Suite Life on Deck
Favorite Website: Poptropica
Favorite Colors: red and gold
Favorite School Subject: PE and Science
When I grow up I want to be: an engineer
What I like best about myself: I do really well in school.
Do you feel different now that you're seven? not really, no.

What would we do without you, Drew? You are the best big brother we could ever wish for for Logan and Hannah. You are so patient and loving with them! You help your Dad and I around the house and always have a hug and a kind word for us. Your sweet cards and drawings always make me smile! We are so proud of how well you are doing in school. I am so grateful for you! Happy Birthday, Buddy!

You Can Lead a Horse to the Potty...

...but you can't make him pee!!!

We are on DAY 3 of intense potty-training with Logan. We have been encouraging it for months, but have been pretty easy going about it because he has shown little or no interest. But now that he's graduated nursery at church, several of his fellow preschoolers (all boys) are potty-trained, AND he's coming up on four-years-old (for heaven's sake), we decided to really start pushing him. Plus, we don't have many plans outside the house right now, so what better time to run around bottomless, right? So we've been trying to get him to drink a lot and have basically followed his little bare bum around the house with his little potty, making him sit on it every 20-30 minutes.

Potty-training Logan has been a very different experience than training Andrew. Andrew took his sweet time too, but he was very easy to bribe. All it took was a sticker on a chart to get him to try. Logan however, is much more stubborn! We've tried every bribe we can think of, but if Logan doesn't want to sit on the potty, NO bribe will change that. It usually takes a threat of time-out just to get him to SIT on the potty. Here are just a few things I'm really tired of hearing:

"NO!"

"NO, I CAN'T!"

"NO! I already did!"

"NO! The air won't let me!" - not really sure what this one means, but he sure likes to use it!

Once in a while he does cooperate and has actually peed in the potty a total of 5 times! YAY, LOGAN! (I won't tell you how many times we've had to clean up puddles of pee on the floor and/or in Big Brother's Spongebob slippers...it's much more than 5!) When he does succeed, we make a big deal about it and let him put a sticker on his sticker chart. It warms my heart to see how proud he is of himself at those times. That helps me remember that he really is trying and wants to succeed, and that he's not peeing on the kitchen floor just to spite me...I think.