26 Months - I'm Coloring!

This month we've kind of settled in to being home all three of us together. Your dad was gone for the first two weeks of your 26th month and I was nervous about trying to deal with both of you while he was away but I think that's what helped us - knowing it was pretty much just the three of us for the majority of that two weeks. We did good! We spent a lot of time hanging out outside while Tessa slept and a lot more time playing blocks and coloring inside. I even finally got brave and took you and Tess to church by myself one week when dad was gone. You talked the WHOLE TIME. I kept trying to get you to whisper but it wasn't happening. I asked again very nicely if you could please whisper and you looked at me and said. "No. I can't. I'm coloring." Well, I guess you told me didn't you?

We were super excited to have dad home when he finally did come home. You were super excited because on one of his days off he mowed the lawn and you always get to hang out with him while he does it. I don't think he minds...

We also kind of started potty training this month. You've been showing an interest so I thought I'd buy you some underwear and just see how things went. They didn't go so hot the first 3 days. I ended up changing soggy underwear instead of soggy diapers so by day 4 I decided you weren't ready and I was going back to diapers. Turns out you weren't having any of that and insisted you wear your underwear and didn't have an accident for 2 days! You've had a few setbacks since then. I think this has something to do with a fear of peeing in gas station bathrooms (who but Britney Spears can blame you? - hmm...you probably don't even know who she is...), but we will keep it up as long as the two of us can handle it and see how it works out.

Your cute underwear butt.

Your peeing on the potty stance. I'm glad you like the toilet now because for a few days there you were actually peeing OVER your potty chair and on to the wall behind it because you refused to sit down and pee. You wanted to pee like a big boy and stand up.

I like that we've settled in and as we get more and more of a routine down I hope to be able to start teaching you some things. You can pretty much say your ABC's with only a few minor "revisions" here and there. A B C B D is your version of the first few letters - it is pretty cute. You can also count to ten which is pretty impressive. Sometimes you even throw in numbers like 45 or 18.

You've said your usual funny stuff this month too. One night you were sitting by Tess and I said, "Awww, Baby Tess and Baby Logan." and you responded right back with "Baby Momma!" Me and your dad laughed pretty hard. And just today we were on our way back from Hurricane and we were making fun of some of the noises Tess was making by making the same noises back and forth to each other. I decided to moo like a cow to see what you would do. Instead of mooing back at me you said "No, don't do that. That sounds like Dusty." I don't know what Uncle Dusty would say about that but I laughed pretty hard.

As always you keep us laughing, guessing, and pulling our hair out. And I love being able to see it all day every day.

Love you bug,

Mom