Cheerios anyone?

Carson has been eating baby food for about 3-4 months now and is quite the eater. He loves anything you offer to him, of course fruit being his favorite. After realizing that he eats about 40 jars a week I decided I would try to give him more of a variety. Recently I started giving him "real" food and he loves it. He screams when you do not feed him fast enough. He LOVES crackers, cheerios, small pieces of bread, fresh fruit mashed up. This morning he could not get enough cheerios. He can't quite pick them up and feed himself so he just opens his mouth and screams. If I am too slow he will put his head down to his tray to try to pick them up. I am going to try to give him pasta this week and see how he does. Cheerios are always a favorite and I love them because they are easy to pick up.

Finger painting fun

This morning we made (or attempted to make) some handprints and footprints with paint of Madison and Carson for Father's day. Madison did very well. Carson was having so much fun touching everything and fingerpainting all over his high chair. We had paint in his hair, all over the highchair, all over his clothes (onesie) and his skin. He was mad when I had to take him down, he wanted to continue to play. A bath was much needed. Of course Madison was all cleaned up and decided she would help Carson as well and joined in on the fun.

Mommy wow, I'm a big kid now!!

Madison has had 2 totally dry days and has not had an accident in her pull-up. She has even woken up dry. She has been doing very well with potty training. She loves going and helping herself to using the bathroom. I keep telling her if she puts all the pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty she can wear her new Elmo undies. Well today getting out of the bath she ran to her room and asked for Elmo. She pulled the undies out of her dresser and tried to put them on. I am not sure if she is ready for undies yet but she wanted to put them on so I let her. I hope she does not have any accidents today. Pull-ups sure are expensive so if she wants to try using her undies I will allow her at home. Different story if we are out and about.

Fun at the zoo

F Lily and Madison having fun at the zoo
Daddy showing Madison the bears while Mommy took Lily to use the restroom. He sure loves his girl.
The Three amigos

Friday we went to the Chaffee zoo. We decided to bring Lily since it was her last day of school and all of her brothers and sisters had parties to go to. We had fun. Carson was very patient with us. Madison enjoyed looking at the monkeys, elephants, tigers, giraffes and sting rays. It was a nice treat to get to do something fun on my first day of summer vacation.

Cupid Kitty

Cupid is one of our cats and recently we tried to give her a haircut to cut some of the matts out of her hair, well I tried and tried and couldn't do a good job so we took her to the groomer for a haircut. We took in a cat, and got back what looks like a creature from somewhere else. I am afraid if we let her outside the other cats will tease her. She desperately needed her matts cut out so now we have a bald kitty, guess that will be good for hairballs, right?

DDR anyone?

Our family has taken to playing Dance Dance Revolution and the kids are too fun to watch. Madison usually gets up there and stomps around like the big kids. She loves copying her cousins, she thinks she is so big. I am so grateful that Madison gets to play with her cousins so often. I just wish we could visit with our Sacramento cousins more often.

Potty Training

We have been trying to potty train Madison for a couple months or so. She did very well at first then decided she didn't like her potty. Now she has been using her potty chair and seems to love it. Madison has been such a good potty trainer. It has been 1 week with consistency going poo-poo in the potty and has been doing very well with pee-pee. She tells us when she has to go and is such a champ. The key is telling us before she is going and not while. When she goes potty, she tells her Mommy... I go. I love that she is doing this on her own. She has gone into the bathroom on her own and sat on the potty chair, went potty, then dumped it in the toilet and flushed it on her own, then told me.. DONE! Potty training is not easy but something I am trying to do consisitently. I think it helps that she gets to do her sticker chart and once it is full she yells for i-meam (ice-cream). We love her and hope that she will get to wear her new undies soon. My goal --- before I go back to work panties all the time unless she is sleeping.