Noah's 1st poo in underwear incident

I debated on whether or not to write about poo poo, but the story is so funny...I couldn't resist. Noah doesn't like being dirty. If his hands are dirty, he'll say, "Clean it." I thought that would be the one thing I had going for me in regard to potty training and the poopy diaper scenario. I set a timer for every 20-30 minutes today and would prompt (and beg and bribe) Noah to go potty when the timer went off. At first he resisted, but it did improve off and on. After one of these many trips to the potty, I decided to set the timer and grab a quick shower. Noah was watching Sesame Street, and I figured it would be safe. Of course it was the 4 minutes I was in the shower that he pooped in his pants. Fine. I thought it would bother him. Unfortunately, Cookie Monster was singing a great song, and Noah was way to interested in it to care...even when I prompted him to change the dirty underwear, he said, "No, okay," and would run away. I gave it about 5-10 minutes, and he eventually walked with me to the bathroom. Progress, I thought. When I took his underwear off, neither one of us noticed that a big ball of poo fell on the floor. What happened next was like it came straight out of a sitcom. Noah lifted his foot up, then proceeded to put his foot down right in the poo. Yuck. The poo was all in-between his toes. It felt yucky, so he then proceeded to put his foot down on my leg. I jumped, so he then put a poo poo footprint on the white cabinet door! Serious mess! I just had to laugh, so we just said, "Yucky," and cleaned it up. Thank goodness for the Shark Steam Mop is all I can say! I'm already anxious about how it's going to go tomorrow, but I WILL look very carefully when I take the underwear off!!!

Noah's 1st BIG BOY Underwear

Noah's 1st BIG BOY underwear---didn't go over as well as I anticipated. Noah LOVES Thomas the Train right now, so I had great new Thomas underwear, but he wimpered some when I put them on. Poor thing. It's just a lot of changes all at once. I'm sure it didn't help that even though I bought size 4T, the underwear were snug, and I accidentally snapped the elastic next to Noah's skin when I pulled them up. Nice job, Mommy. Let's have him associate the underwear with pain. Oh well. In the later synopsis of the day, I'll include that we eventually went to Gymboree & got some more underwear that were a little bigger without such rough elastic. That helped. I'm sure he'll one day HATE that I'm mentioning this, but he was also pleasantly surprised when he discovered that he could find his penis with the underwear on...something he couldn't do with a diaper! By the end of the day, Noah still didn't WANT to put on the underwear, but he wasn't fighting, either. Progress.

Potty Party Time

Today is the big day...the day we begin our potty training to get Noah into big boy underwear. We started off the morning with a potty party, including cupcakes, brand new Thomas the Train underwear, & several different fun-style juices to keep the fluids going. Noah has been going pee pee in the potty when I ask him to, but we've never done the underwear or anything beyond that. I was surprised to see that he wouldn't even go pee pee on the potty this morning when I asked him to. He said, "No." I tried the cupcake, again, "No." I offered the Thomas underwear, "No." Michael and I just looked at each other like, "Uh, now what?!?" I thought, "Oh, it's going to be a long day!"

Craziest Baby Sprinkle Of All Time!

Mary Beth wanted to give me a baby "sprinkle" before she has to move, so we did our girls happy hour at KE Cellars tonight & made it a combo sprinkle. It was interesting to say the least! Normally, KE Cellars has some acoustic guitar lightly playing in the background...NOT TONIGHT! Some band was playing serious rock & metal songs (VERY loudly!). It was so loud, no one could hardly even hear each other. But somehow, we just rolled with it...or rocked and rolled with it. The highlight had to be when the band played the single-worst rendition of "Sweet Child of Mine," (previous fame by Guns-N-Roses) I've ever heard. Maybe we should name the baby Axl? It was SOOO funny, though. Definitely, the craziest baby sprinkle I've attended! One for the memory books for sure!

Swimming with Daddy, Paw Paw, & Sarah

Paw Paw & Sarah came by late this afternoon for a swim. Noah couldn't have been more excited, even though he & I spent about 2 hours in the pool this morning! My little guy is a fish! Sarah brought Noah some of her old books and a t-shirt that she bought him. She is very sweet with him. We had pizza & then played in the pool. I'm sure he'll sleep well tonight!I love the sound of his Noah's laughter. I think Noah's little brother (still without a name) liked the laughter, too, because when the pool fun was going on, baby brother was kicking up a storm in my belly! I guess he was doing his own swimming!

Pizza with Daddy

Daddy has spent all day upstairs working on paperwork, so it was a nice treat when he came downstairs & shared a pizza lunch with Noah.

Playing in Grammie's Sink

After getting hot playing outside, Noah cooled off in Grammie's sink.