Mini-Van Update

Just wanted to update on the Mini-Van. It is the Odyssey by Honda and I have not named her yet. I just wanted to say, and I can't believe that I am admitting it, that I LOVE it. Sophia climbs in the car herself. I just have to put her in the seat. She can climb in while I put James in. It is sooo convenient. There is plenty of room in the back for when we visit Mom and Dad and a place for everything! Ahhh, organization and peace. Lovely.

It's Not Lipstick

Sophia got some paints when James was born and she loves them. She also loves to put on Mommy's makeup with Mommy in the morning. Apparently on this day, she got confused on which one she was supposed to play with and which one she was supposed to wear. It started with the red paint and went on to the blue. I don't think blue lipstick is for her but she might have a future in red lipstick!
James turned 3 Months and is just adorable in our eyes. He always turns his head this way and is starting to get a flat, as well as a bald spot, on the back side of his head. Poor little man! I am always trying to get him to look in the other direction. He is starting too but he still prefers to look to his right.

Updates

Let me catch everyone up on the past few days. We got our Odyssey and I LOVE it. If I knew I would have liked it this much we would have bought one a long time ago. It is so convenient! The wood trim on the inside looks awesome and Sophia can climb into the mini herself, which helps. Speaking of Miss Sophia, she is doing well on the potty. Everyday she poops and pees at least once. Of course everyday she also pees on the floor because we tried to pee to soon or too late. Oh well. Thank goodness for the Little Bissell. She is also saying new words galore and I don't know where she learns it all. She says "Oh Man" if she drops something. Pointed out and names purple and yellow for me (she already knows blue) and finished counting to 9 (I said 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and Sophia yelled 9). Tomorrow she gets her 18 month pictures taken. Hopefully she will be cooperative because we are going through a big NO stage. Yesterday Sophia also thought it would be fun to sit in a puddle of water on our sidewalk and then roll around in it. I was teaching her how to make splashes with her foot and she decided to take it one and then two steps further. I am sure our neighbors were enjoying the entertainment because it was in our front yard. I wish I had my camera because it was pretty funny.

Master James is doing great and the little man just smiles ALL the TIME! He is so cute and cuddly!! I wish I had all day with nothing to do so I could hold all the time. He is starting to get heavy. I don't know how much he weighs but I can tell he is getting much heavier. His eyes are also getting bluer. Tomorrow he is getting his 3 months pictures taken. I bought a baby blue shirt to go with his eyes so hopefully the pictures will turn out well. He slept through the night last night without waking up to eat. That was very nice! He did wake up at 4:30 but easily went back to sleep once I gave him is paci. He slept from 7:30 until 7:30. Let's hope that is a trend. James also rolled over today too! He was mad and wanted his bottle NOW! So he curled himself up, yelled out and rolled on over. I think he was shocked because he stopped crying.

2 Days in a Row!!

Well, Sophia did it again. I am so proud of her! We were at lunch and she said, "Uh oh, Mama...Poop." While she continued to say "Uh Oh" we ran to the bathroom (which happened to be at the mall) and badaboom...poop. Yeah! I am so glad she is telling me when she has to poop! Then before bath we always sit on the potty. Tonight (for the third time this week - what a big girl) she went pee-pee. I am so proud of my 18 months old. I certainly didn't expect this much success for months!!

POOP in the POTTY!!!

Today at lunch Sophia said "Mama Poop, Poop". So I ran her to the bathroom, set her on the toilet and TA-DA...POOP! I was so excited! Sophia got to choose an item from the "Treasure Chest". She was very happy and tried to call Grandma on my cell phone. This was the first time she pooped on the potty and the first time she told me she had to go potty. Yeah!!

Call me "Soccer Mom"

Well, it's official. I am embracing my motherhood. We have bought a minivan. Granted, it has every feature you can possibly get plus some added accessories ( I wanted to stand out) and is just as nice in convenience as the Mercedes, but it was a hard step to take. It feels like we spent the whole day doing this. We started this morning with Jim and James getting the Honda and Sophia and I getting the Toyota. We met in the church parking lot, crawled through them, drove them around and tried it all out. Sophia sat nicely and watched a Little People DVD and James slept. We decided on the Honda because Jim knees hit the dashboard on the Toyota (you can't recline the seats too far back because of the carseats). It is really nice. I chose a black mini with black interior. I really REALLY liked the ivory interior but just didn't think it was a smart idea to get ivory interior with two small children (milk, juice stains - YUK). The black should at least hide that better and crumbs that may show up on the black seats can be vacuumed out. So anyway, it took me forever to decide (big surprise) but it is done. And, all of the colors I really liked either don't come in the Touring edition or had gray interior (I personally HATE grey interior on big vehicles). Plus, I didn't really want a minivan that everyone else has. Thus, we have black on black. We just have to wait for some of the accessories to be added (I got wood grain interior added, door guard, wheel locks, and 3rd row sunshade). I can't wait to see how it will all be. Hopefully we can pick it up on Sat. Anyone want to babysit Sophia?

She Did It Again!!

Sophia went pee-pee in the potty again today! I am so excited! I need to start a reward system with her this week so she can be motivated to go more often.

Ding Dong the Skunk is Dead

Okay so for those of you who know this, we have had a skunk living underneath our sun room now for the past three weeks. Jim kept trying to catch it but was out of luck until 2 nights ago. He caught it!! We had a tarp over the trap the past three weeks so the skunk wouldn't spray us. Well, 2 nights ago we saw the trap was tripped and heard the skunk inside of it. We were so happy. We called Critter Control to come take the skunk away (I was not going to have that skunk put into my car to be halled off). Anyway, we spoke to the Critter Control people today when they returned the trap. It turned out it wasn't a skunk after all - it was a 'POSSUM!! He apparently had gotten sprayed by a skunk because even the Critter Control guy was surprised when he opened the cage. Anyway, I am just glad the animal is gone. The house is starting to smell normal again.

Sleeping Update

Yeah- James slept through the night. We put him down at 7:15 and by 7:30 he was asleep. James then slept until 5 this morning! I went in and fed him (I guess I thought he would starve to death if I didn't) and then he fell back asleep and slept until 7:30! Yeah!!! Lets hope he does this again tonight.

PEE PEE IN THE POTTY!!!!!

Sophia went pee-pee in the potty tonight!! I am so excited. She had shown some interest (like 5 weeks ago) so we bought a little potty that she picked out and thought we would start before bath time. Well tonight she actually went pee-pee!!! I was SO excited! What a big girl!