I'm a big kid now!

Its about time Jonas got his own post. It seems like everything lately has been about Liam. Well, Mr Jonas decided Sunday that he would like to be potty trained - just like that. We already decided when we potty trained Liam that bribery was the best method, so had stocked up on matchbox cars and mini lego sets to place within view of the potty to give him an incentive. I have to admit that I have not been very active in the encouragement. I remember the stress involved with Liam (mostly because I was nursing Jonas at the time and in the middle of feeding Liam would announce he had to go and I had to try and figure out how to deal with him with Jonas still attached). We came up with a system of toys for #2 and starburst for #1. Sunday morning before church Jonas got 4 matchbox cars and 1 lego set, and about 20 starburst!! Every 2 minutes or so Jonas would run to the potty and actually produce. I am not sure how he did it. But all of the attention and prizes were enough to keep him at it. He has had 1 accident which I think is pretty good in 4 days. We decided Sunday was way too expensive and have moved to candy for #2's and he now has a chart for #1's. After however many #1's he gets a piece of candy.

He still wears diapers for nap and bedtime and we haven't been brave enough to leave the house with big boy underwear on. Maybe next week. For now he just runs around the house in mostly just underwear. His little bottom looks so cute in them! Thank goodness its summer!


Are you surprised we let him on the furniture? I guess we figured with him going every 2 minutes how could he possible have an accident on the couch...

Aargh!!

Liam went to a pirate/princess birthday party on Saturday. Since then he has been wearing an eye patch around the house.

I had to work so Nate took Liam to the party and then later that night they came and picked me up from work. When I got in the car Liam was so excited to tell me about the little dinosaurs he won. I asked him how he won them and he told me won the dancing contest! I laughed out loud. I have noticed that some little kids just jump up and down when they dance, but not Liam. He goes crazy, sometimes even with an air guitar. When Nate has music playing in the office and a song comes on that Liam likes he will come running in and dance for us. It's nice to see that his dancing skills finally paid off.

Yum.

I just drank my 2nd A&W root beer. It was sooo good!

Preschool Update

Liam is loving preschool so far! He is pretty upset that he only gets to go 2 days a week. I can imagine that to a little kid having 5 days in between when you get to go would be hard. He was asking me Sunday if he got to go to school the next day. When I told him no he said he wished he could just live at school instead of at our house. It made me feel a little better when he said he wished we could all live there with him.

We had a parent association meeting on Monday. I went not realizing that they were electing new officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and a couple others). There were probably only 15 parents there out of the 3 preschool classes so I was nervous that I might be guilted into volunteering for something even though I know that I am at my stress limit right now and can't take on anything else. Thankfully there were a few other parents willing to volunteer. At the meeting I was talking to Liam's teacher and she told me that on the first day she was sitting and talking with the kids and telling them it was okay to feel nervous and excited, that she was nervous and excited too. Liam raised his hand and said, "I'm not nervous, I'm just excited!" Because I am in Primary with him each week his comment doesn't really surprise me.

I try to get him to tell me about what he has been doing but he doesn't have much info for me. Apparently there are just too many things to tell and too many kids to remember all of their names yet. Luckily I volunteered to help out in a couple of weeks so I'll get to see what its like. He did tell me that his favorite part is recess. I guess they call it "play time" but he told me he calls it recess because he knows thats what its called. (This might give you an idea what its like to get him to do/understand anything he has his own ideas about. We spend lots of time explaining to him that we are much older and know more about most things than him...)

PS. The shiner is still here. Its sort of in it's yellowish phase so hopefully that means it will be gone soon!

Preschool

I just dropped Liam off for his first day of preschool. I have to admit that I did get a little teary on the walk home with Jonas. I am happy he gets to go to school now but its hard to believe my little guy is growing up! A lot of the kids were hanging onto their parents, not wanting them to leave. Liam found a table with an activity he liked, sat down, and pretty much forgot I was still there. I thought about hanging out a little longer to make sure he was fine (or maybe make sure I was fine) but decided to let go and let him do his thing. On the walk away from the school I almost turned around a few times to go back and peek in on him - but I didn't. Now I just can't wait to pick him up at 12 (only a half day today) so I can hear all about his day!

shiner

Liam got his first black eye...just in time for his first day of preschool. I was at work when it happened but the story Liam told me is that they were playing robots and he bumped into Jonas. That probably means they were wrestling around because whether they are playing robots, monsters or soldiers it all seems to be the same thing...beating each other up until someone gets hurt. This was taken yesterday morning so it doesn't look too bad but all day it seemed to get worse (if you click on the picture you can see it better). I tried not to say anything to him about it though. He would probably get all worked up and want me to put a band aid on it. Maybe it will make him look extra tough at school so none of the other kids will mess with him.

A little taste of HOME

A friend of ours from school told Nate about this Vietnamese market that sells A&W rootbeer! We went the next day to buy some...only $1.50 per CAN! I had my first one with my homemade pizza tonight and it was awesome.