Another potty post!

Well, I think it's official - James is 100% potty trained!!! YAY YAY YAY!! We've had a whole week with no accidents and going both #1 and #2 in the potty - even at the gym!!! People told me one day it would just click and I guess it did. We had been "bribing" him with everything which had not been working and then a couple of weeks ago I revisited the "we'll make brownies if you poop in the potty" and that time it worked - he said ok and went straight in and did his business. So, at 9am we were making brownies and he got one every time he went for about a week - but that's ok - it got us here:) He's so proud of himself and tells everyone that he pooped on the potty and got new flip flops -another bribe - I mean "positive reinforcement" :)

Here's my big boy now showing off his new sun glasses his Papa Steve got him.

Room Time - Several months ago I finally decided to implement "room time" with the boys. I've read about it in several parenting books and was dreading trying it out thinking it was going to be a battle - and of course, just like most things, the things you expect to be hard never are as bad as you think. The boys play in their room off and on all day long but this is a time that I decided, where I set a timer and send them to their room and they must stay in there and play the entire time. I usually do it while I'm trying to get dinner made and don't want them under foot the whole time :) Usually when I first declare "room time" james has a bit of a come-apart but he knows the rules - I set them timer and leave them to play - within a couple of minutes I hear them in there laughing away. This is supposed to be an extension of blanket time or pack-n-play time which I never did with the boys but I think I'm going to try it with Gracie.

I caught them catching up on some reading yesterday during room time - LOVE IT!

John-Mark is almost 2 and we haven't cut his hair yet - it's so stinkin' cute - his hair is totally different from James' - it appears to be fine like mine but right now it has a little curl to it which will probably go away when we cut it so i'm in no rush - he doesn't have a mullet yet so what's the hurry :) Here is his little "curl mohawk" :)

Speaking of hair - Jeremy trimmed up James' hair yesterday - I wish I could see what it looks like longer but it's so coarse and crazy Jeremy likes to keep it short.

And lastly, here is the princess, Gracie Belle - getting too big! She's even starting to army crawl when she really wants to get her hands on something - which let me just say - she seems to have "GO GO Gadget arms" (Inspector Gadget reference) - I turn around for one minute and she's got something that I swear was half way across the room from her! She's very determined when she wants something :)
notice what her toys are - cars, trucks and books! We need to get this girl a baby doll but I don't think she would like them near as much as chewing on the tires of all her brother's cars :)