Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Potty...uh... training?

There's been a lot of potty talk with our blogging peers these days. Some younger than Jake, some older. Jake is 22 months old tomorrow, so I figured it couldn't hurt to slowly introduce the concept.



So I went out and bought a little potty for Jake last week. No pressure, no solid plans, just put the potty in our bathroom, make sure he knows what it's there for, and get him comfortable with the idea of potty training. He seemed interested the night I introduced it to him, but it turned out all he wanted to do was flip the lid open and closed over and over. He was also interested in putting toilet paper in it. I put about a cup of water in the basin (to make eventual clean-up easier) and he keeps sticking his fingers in the water and splashing around. Even grosser, he wets his fingers then puts them in his mouth and says "Mmmmmm!". I've tried to stop him every time, but the bugger is quick! This isn't going as I had imagined....

When he was standing up, I asked him if he wanted to pee-pee in the potty. He promptly got into the man pee-stance: Back arched, hips thrust forward, hands on his willy. He produced nothing, which was probably for the best - he would have just sprayed the walls anyway.

So he finally sat on it last night (he had refused up until this point) and all he wanted to do was push his little pee-pee into the squishy foam seat and pull it back out. Great. So now I have a little guy that will only sit on the toilet for the purpose of playing with his willy. Guess we'll be in diapers for a little while longer.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

FINALLY!

After three irritating trips to the DMV, the state of New York has FINALLY issued me a New York State Driver's License! Actually, it's a temporary piece of paper and my license will be mailed in 2-4 weeks (argh), but why get technical about it?

Monday, January 21, 2008

Friday, January 18, 2008

Blessed we are....

Look at this precious gift we have been blessed with! I could kiss him a hundred times a day and it still wouldn't be enough.





Thursday, January 17, 2008

Dancing with the Stars!

Uncle Chris is a rock star! He took up a little hobby in the off-season and look how well it went! We attended his Winter Showcase performance tonight at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Mamaroneck. All of the dancers were very good, but Kiddo rocked the house!



Always the shy one, Jake found a little girl he took a liking to, and wasn't coy about it :)



Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Contest on MCK

My friend MCK Mama is running a contest on her blog! Check it out to win fabulous cash and prizes! (Okay, too much of The Price is Right going on in this house....)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Just waking up....

I'm not sure if I mentioned it before or not, but my parents got me an 85mm f/1.8 lens for Christmas. And it kicks butt. Royally. AND the 30D camera is back from the shop! Woo-hoo! When I get all caught up on work and laundry (hold on while I laugh hysterically here), I'll post millions of fabulous pictures of Jake taken with the 30D and the 85 lens.

These are about a week or two old (his eye is still red in these), but I found them blog-worthy.


He looks all pookie and sad here in his little crib prison ;) Maybe he wasn't quite ready to wake up afterall...