Boys Update

POTTY TRAINING
Coop’s potty dance- he is doing a great job he just likes to have an audience at all times. He refuses to go to the bathroom by himself. If you don’t make it in time he will pee standing up with his pants down running around the bathroom frantically breathing and yelling at you to, “Come on!!!”

Bear’s potty stubbornness- Bear goes back and forth potty training but still prefers diapers. Some days he asks to use the potty and others he demands diapers. We could force the issue but I figure I’ll be patient and let it happen more naturally. Besides we have a lot of change coming up I’m not going to stress out on this one. It is adorable though to have them both sitting on potty’s at the same time.

FAVORITE TOYS
Flashlights. If anyone has leads on really inexpensive flashlights I would be very grateful. They break them constantly but have to have one with them at all times. Coopers favorite thing to do is close himself off in a dark room and ask you to “Come play dark with me!” Coop will ask and take you on a tour of any dark room but he’s clear to say, “Don’t scare me.”
The baby. We have this little baby doll that we purchased to help Coop adjust to having a baby around the house. Well now the boys take turns with the baby and try very hard to take care of him. Often they will ask for him to be in a diaper and yesterday Coop asked for a bottle for the baby. Right now Bear just brought him to be saying, “Baby’s diaper.” Coop picked him up and said, “Oh baby!” and is now burping him.

LINGO
Backyardigans translates to “Fardigans”
Gym translates to “ym”. (Think gyro but how people say yro.)
Wal-Mart translates to “The City”
Whole Foods translates to “The Castle”
Kroger translates to “The Kroger Castle”

BACKSEAT DRIVERS
There is nothing worse than a backseat driver. Ask Jim I drive him nuts every time someone breaks too fast in front of us. But how do you argue with two toddlers who yell, “Go, go, go!!!” at the top of their lungs every time the light turns green. How do you not scratch your head when Coop tells me to turn right or left at every turn and most of the time he is right. But the funniest is when they argue over where we are going. Bear will determine “The Castle!” and let up a little cheer. Coop will respond, “No Bear, NO CASTLE we go to the ym!” Bear usually will say, “Oh ok.”

IN A MINUTE
This little phrase has saved my tail countless times. When they want something they want something. They don’t understand it when I say later, or tomorrow or not tonight. But if I tell them, “Not yet,” or “In a minute,” they 99.9% of the time calm right down and know that they will get it eventually.

TRAINS
They are train obsessed that is for sure. They each carry little lunch pails EVERYWHERE we go filled with little trains. Bear also has this little green basket filled with toys he carries with him all the time. If another kid at the gym daycare even dares to come close I’ve watched Bear put his hand out and say, “No baby, no touch!” The only issue we face is they both want to sleep with Thomas. Not Gordon who is also blue but only Thomas with the Number 1 on the side. I tried to trick Coop once and he kept saying, “No, not the number 1!” So Jim found 2 more Thomas trains that we will hope to combat any arguing until they lose those. If they weren’t so expensive I would have asked him to buy 6!