Some Tid-Bits

Operation big boy bed is going pretty well. Granted I have had some really awful nights of throwing Justin back in his bed 500 times before he goes to sleep - but he stays in bed once he falls asleep and he's only hit the floor once. It probably hurt...he rolled off the end of the bed on to the wood floor one night. He gives me a way harder time about staying in bed at bedtime than he does Dave. Why is it that kids torture their mothers?

Operation potty training is not going so well. Granted I haven't pushed it very hard yet - but will need to soon! He knows when he has to poop..and does what I call the poopy-dance and says he wants to go sit on the potty. So we go sit on the potty...444 times in a row. And. Nothing. Happens. Then 10 minutes later he'll inform me that he has a stinky diaper. I'm hoping at some point this just clicks in his little head and he goes WHILE HE IS ON THE POTTY! I heard a rumor that daycare does a week of potty-training boot camp in August..I'm not sure if this is true or not but I need to find out. I'd love it if they just handled this situation for me :)

Justin is still LOVING construction equipment. Every day on the way to school we have to look for the excavator, the loader, the back hoe , the bobcat and the tractor. He knows exactly where these things are and starts talking about them before we get to them. He gets a bit disappointed when the projects are over and the equipment disappears.

He has been working on his two-year molars for awhile now. They seem to be coming in one at a time...each one taking weeks to come in. I'm hopeful the process is over soon. I noticed when Justin came back from Tara's that he was doing a MUCH better job of brushing his teeth- so I asked Tara if Lily had given him lessons and evidently she gave some wonderfully detailed instructions to him. Maybe I should have had Lily work on potty training too!

I am absolutely loving that Justin is chatting away at me these days. While it can be annoying to hear the same thing 4,000 times in a row -the unsolicited "Thank you, mommy" "Yes, I do"  "I'm funny" and random bits that he'll drop on me here and there are just awesome. Sometimes he sounds like he has a little accent that cracks me up. He also likes to switch things up and start calling me Tanya - which he obviously thinks is hilarious. And once in awhile he'll say "Mom" instead of Mommy which just sounds weird.

Overall he's really fun- I'm enjoying this age. He's still a total mama's boy which will be hard when the new baby comes- but we'll figure it out.  We haven't really talked to him about the new baby at all. We stop at say hi to the babies at daycare but I figure there isn't really any point it attempting to explain to a 2 year old why my belly looks like a soccer ball. I'll buy a couple of "big brother" like books as it gets closer and we'll read them and maybe by the time I'm the size of a house he'll start to put a couple of things together in his head. Regardless I think it's going to be a shock to him to have to share his mommy.