PS

P.S.... You love your big brother Corbin so much! He makes you laugh like crazy. Every time we go to get him from his nap, yes you go to sleep after him and wake up before him, you just shine and smile when we get to his door. As soon as we open the door, you just laugh and smile at him. You get all squirmy and literally leap out of my arms so you can go say hi to him.

Even if he sits on you, hits you, pushes you, or isn't feeling very nice, you still love him! As soon as you have calmed down you go right back to trying to play with him. He loves you too even if he get's frustrated by you.

Here you are at 9.5 months, laughing at Corbin jumping and running outside.

9 months!

Happy 9 months Eliza Jolie! What a joy you are. I could just eat you up!

18 lbs 3 oz. & 27.5 inches. Both 50%ile.

Your top left tooth poked through on your 9 month birthday. By the next week both were in. You now have 4 teeth!

You are a crawling speed monster! You love to crawl to the stairs and climb them. You crawl to whatever room we are in. You like to crawl to the open door and look out. You crawl in the bathroom and try to get into the toilet and diaper pail (yuck!). There is no sitting still for you. You won't even really sit on my lap to read books most nights.

Remember the days when you would like me take a picture of you sitting still. No longer. No more cute little letters saying 9 months! You just smile and giggle at me when I say "No no Eliza, fire is HOT". Good thing for the fire grate!

You like to take books off the shelf but not read them. You eat them. You are starting to get a little more picky about what you eat. And you eat only by yourself. We just plop food down on your tray and you shovel it in. You are Messy! But you LOVE LOVE LOVE the bath! You have NO fear when it comes to the water. You just fall over and get right back up. Forget my rule of no standing in the tub! You even like to drink the water and put your whole face in.

Everything goes in your mouth. Everything.

Naked Diaper baby = Naked diaper/undies brother.

You have big blueish/greyish eyes. They are still changing. I am hoping for some hazel eyes but we will have to wait and see.

A little game of catch up

Hello and good bye April!

Making Corbin's Job's chart at our Family meeting.

Spring Break 2011= Garden projects (weeding) and starting and stopping working on the greenhouse, Vancouver Aquarium, lots of rain, learning to pee outside, a visit with Grandma Susan, and a date night.

Happy Easter!

Did you get a glimpse of Corbin's black eye? He ran into a parked car with his bike. He was wearing his helmet but still managed to bang up his cheek/eye!

Potty Talk

We are finally here, the world of the potty, undies, and accidents. I know I shouldn't be so glad to have him grow up so fast but I seriously thought that he would never be interested in going on the potty. Even some other kids who are not fully trained are at least interested but not Corbin, until this past week!

I am of the belief that he will do it when he is ready. I want to push but I know it will just become a battle. For a while I was asking him all the time. We had him sit on the toilet but nothing would happen. Then we just dropped it. I decided that he would tell me when he was ready. No pressure. We would continue to ask him here and there but not all the time. He had some big boy undies (Toy Story) that he would wear once in a while but he had some accidents and decided against it. He has gotten to the point where he knows when he has to poop. He either runs and hides and then instantly has us change his diaper. Or he would say something like,
"My tummy hurts. Mom, why does my tummy hurt?"
"I don't know buddy, why do you think it hurts?"
"Ask me if I have to poop mommy."
"Corbin do you have to poop.?"
"Yep, mommy, I do. Then you will change my diaper."
And we would have to look away or he would go to another room. So we knew we were getting close. But he refused to go try on the potty.

We were at Goodwill this past week and picked up another potty book. I don't know if that spurred the interest again or that he was just ready. We were working outside a lot this past week, as it was Adam's spring break. And somehow he decided that he wanted to try to pee outside. He did it after a long time just standing there! We were so excited for him. We tried to put some emphasis on how hard he worked and how we bet he was excited as opposed to putting too much judgment and praise.

He quickly just started wanting to go all the time outside. Then we got a pee on the potty. And he had decided he wants to wear the big boy undies more. He still was asking to get a diaper on before he pooped. There were still times when he wouldn't go on the potty.

So yesterday I went out and bought some more underwear. He was pretty excited. Today I guessed that he might want to try to wear them all day. He didn't want to try to pee this morning when he got up. Instead he put on undies then wanted a diaper. I knew he probably had to poop. So we had a diaper. A poop. Then big boy undies. Then playing and then an accident. He was find with it. I said we all have accidents. He wanted them again. Then we went for a walk. It was going to just be a short walk around the block. Then he wanted to go to the park. He said he had to go but then changed his mind. I should have tried to get him to go but then we went tot he creek. I think the rushing sound of the water was just too much. He just had pee running down his legs. Of course I didn't have any extra undies or pants. I gave him some choices of just walking with his wet pants. He was so cute, he was waddling around like his pants were wet-because they were. He ended up taking his pants off and I wrapped him in the blanket from Eliza and he rode back in the stroller.

To make this long story shorter... he had a poop in the potty too. He was pretty excited. Then a little later he had a poop accident -too much honeydew this morning. We had to go straight into the bath. He then peed again tonight.

As we were having our family meeting he got all excited about trying to stick his penis out of the undies like the big boys do. He kept saying "Mom, you want to see my penis through my undies?" It was just too cute. We are on our way!

Eliza's top tooth has broken through the surface! Ouch but she has been so good. She is showing some good wrestling moves on the changing table too. Tomorrow she is 9 months! Holy moly!

I wish I could add pictures but alas our computer is full again. What do you other bloggers do with all your pictures and videos? We have moved a bunch to the hard-drive but still are running out of room way too fast.