Another one?

Yes, it's true....Rolly is sporting a new tooth! This brings the grand total up to FIVE! And THREE of them are new this week!

What a trooper he is. I didn't notice any fussiness ealier this week when Rolly's two teeth came in, but today he seemed a little off. I figured the new teeth were giving him growing pains, but when I checked his mouth out I found another tooth. It's located on top in the middle. So now he won't look like a hillbilly-even though we still live in the sticks!

By the way.... You don't know how difficult it is to get a picture of Rolly without Lucky in the photo. Normally I don't mind and love picturing them together.However, Lucky insisted on being topless today, which is okay except that he's also bottomless due to potty training.

I hope that dressing Lucky in the future will not be a challenge. Time will tell.

Let's Play Ball

Rolly's new favorite toys are balls and blocks. Lucky of course needs to "help" him play with them. Somehow Lucky always ends up with most of the toys. We are working on sharing.

Termites?

We had our annual termite inspection today, I knew it was scheduled, but I was unprepared. When the inspector rang the doorbell at 10 am he was witnessed the following:

-stark naked Lucky answering the door
-mommy with wet hair, wearing a robe
-Rolly in PJs demanding to be picked up
-toys everywhere
-Baby Einstein blasting
-a mess in the kitchen as mommy made dinner (I thought cooking dinner at 10 am would work out better)


I very quickly asked him to inspect outside FIRST. I threw on some clothes, put a shirt on Lucky (still potty training, so no pants), and put Rolly in his highchair for some smashed banana fun! I The kitchen was still a mess, as were the toys, but I have little ones who play.

THE MAN-as we call all men who we come in contact with that we don't know- brought in his flashlight to check for termites. I had to explain to THE MAN that we were potty training, not weird-he said "I figured."

Lucky asked "What THE MAN doing mommy?" To which I answered "looking for bugs." Lucky then ran to find daddy's Mag-lite and turned it on. He proceeded following THE MAN around the house. He said "MAN-I helping you find the bugs!"-over and over again. After such a thorough inspection we found that we have no termites, just a few pests (well just one-but he's so darn cute that we'll keep him.)

Announcing Rolly's....

We are a monument of news over here. It's a good thing you all have this blog to help you keep up with us. :) After 12 hours of solid sleep, being awake for 2 hours, and sleeping for 2 1/2 more hours....Rolly broke through 2 more teeth today! They are on top on either side of the still missing middle teeth. So he now has the new top ones and two on the bottom middle. The new teeth enjoyed chomping on the banana bits he had at dinner tonight.

The Bottomless Cowboy!

We've been hard at work potty training and it's actually working. We've abondoned the timer today. Lucky's been telling me when he has to go potty for pee pee and stinky. Yay!

We have been using this strategy combined with John Rosemond's "no underwear and $75 plan" ($75 for carpet cleaning). Lucky's wardrobe is very interesting. Yesterday it was a long sleeve shirt, sweatshirt, mommy's socks and crocs. Today he insisted on wearing his gators shirt, to which I had to add a long sleeve shirt, socks, and a cowboy hat. I have much less laundry too. Tomorrow will be our official Day 4, so we can go back to underwear and pants. But for now we have a bottomless cowboy!

P.S. I don't know where his socks went.

Rolly's First Foods!

New Year's Resolutions (Plural)

So the idea of resolutions is not foreign to me. I frequently come up with "a new life plan" as I like to call it, aka resolutions. But now that I'm the mommy I not only make resolutions for myself, but also for my boys. This is all well and fine except for when I make them all at the same time, but so far so good.

Here are our most pressing resolutions:

1. Actively potty train Lucky-

We got him a stool to climb up to the potty (he very cutely calls it a 'school'); Cars, Thomas, and Elmo underwear....is 13 pairs overkill? I don't know, it just seems like something you wouldn't want to run out of; we also purchased a kitchen timer yesterday- the timer was set for every 20 minutes to go potty, then today every 30 minutes, tomorrow we move up to 45 minutes.....so far so good!

2. Allowing Rolly time to fall asleep on his own-

This may not seem like a resolution since Rolly pretty much always goes down for his nap/bedtime awake, however last week we had friends in town and a crazy schedule and unfortunately acclimated him to being put down asleep. I feel bad that he's having to re-learn something that we messed up for him. BUT he is 7 1/2 months old and he can fall asleep alone. He cries a little, but every night does better and better.

3. Starting Rolly on foods- finally!

Yes-it's true, Rolly has never had a taste of anything other than breastmilk----until tonight! He had some banana pieces. He of course loved it and smiled real sweet for the camera. He fed himself a few pieces. I fed him first and feeding himself is just for practice and seeing if he has any allergies, but my baby loves it. Hopefully his tummy will love it too. We'll see.

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As I reflect on our resolutions it makes me a little bit sad that we're experiencing all these changes, but my boys are growing, becoming more independent and that's a good thing. It means I'm doing my job.

What about you any resolutions? Happy New Year!