What's that Smell?

David went to check on Daniel tonight after he'd been in bed about an hour. He came out and asked me, "What did you put in Daniel's room that smells so good? It smells like perfume or a candle or something." At first I thought it was a trap and that I would walk into a stinky pull-up situation, but I went to check anyway. I immediately recognized the smell of Daniel's wipes. I figured the wipe box had been left open, so I was feeling around in the dark to close it when I hear Daniel say, "No wipes." I turn on a light and put the pieces together of what took place after "lights out."

1. Daniel climbed out of his crib.
2. Daniel got his box of wipes from his changing table.
3. Daniel threw the box of wipes into his crib.
4. Daniel climbed back into his crib.
5. Daniel proceeded to empty the entire box of wipes, making some of them into "wormies" by wadding them up and throwing others behind his crib.

And then there were four...

We found out last night that we're expecting our second baby! We couldn't be more excited! I think the due date is somewhere around January 17, 2012. I called and made an appointment for my first prenatal visit which will happen 6-9-11. I'm excited for that day because I know my doctor will do an ultrasound, and I'll, hopefully, be able to see that everything looks okay. I read online that my new baby's heart will start beating this week. Yea!

It was a strange feeling to know that our family is now four. I can't wait to see how things turn out for all of us! Praise God for blessing us with another baby!

Climbing Monkey

Tonight Daniel threw a fit when Daddy was going to put him in his highchair for dinner. He wanted Mommy to do it. We've had this argument before.....anyway, we told him he could wait to eat until he was ready for Daddy to put him in his highchair. He paused a moment, then climbed into the highchair himself and sat down. He said, while giggling, "I got in my highchair myself!"

Then later tonight, we put him to bed in his crib without a bedtime story.....(long story).....anyway, he came waltzing back out into the living room about 5 minutes later. He sure did climb out of that crib! He proceeded to do it two more times before he got the picture that he'd just have to get right back in.

It's amazing what anger will push a kid to do! He's quite a little monkey! And we may be switching to a big-boy bed sooner than we thought.....

FAIL

No more poops in the potty. I think it might, literally, be another four months. Maybe not.....but it definitely wasn't today.

Daniel had to poop so badly tonight. He would come running up to me, shaking his hands frantically and whining, "I need to go poop!" So I'd get him on the potty. He'd sit there all of 1 minute and say, "I feel better now. I don't need to poop." We made at least 5 trips to the potty in this same manner with no results.

He went back to his "hold it until you have to" mode, and he made it. When I put his pull-up on him tonight after his bath, he started giggling excitedly as if to say, "I knew I could make it 'til the pull-up!" I put him to bed, checked on him 10 minutes later, and changed his pull-up. Bummer!

Gimme the News

David's been teaching Daniel some older rock songs.

Daniel's been singing:
"Doctor, doctor, gimme the news.
I have a bad case.
I love you!"

He's close!

Alleluia!

After four very long months of potty training, he did it. Daniel pooped in the potty today! Hooray! I realize anybody reading this that's not a mother is grossed out - and I apologize for that - but it's a big deal around here!

I wouldn't say that it's a done deal yet, but we're definitely on the right track now! He actually even did it twice today, but I think he really needed to go more, and he was just holding back because he's still a little freaked out about the whole idea.

Here's hoping that it's not another four months before we have a repeat performance!

Easter

We celebrated Easter in Amarillo this year with my family. Aunt Heather and Uncle Brian were such gracious hosts, and we had a really good time! Daniel got to drive the riding lawnmower with Uncle Brian, and I don't think he'll forget that anytime soon! They were pretending to try and run us all over, and Daniel thought that was hilarious!

We dyed Easter eggs this year. Daniel picked a "monster" kit so we had stickers, pipe cleaners, and fuzzy hair to make all the Easter eggs turn into monsters!

Here's Daniel and Bryson pretending to be monsters with stickers and pipe cleaners for themselves! Poor Bryson didn't get a say in the matter! Isn't he the cutest baby you've ever seen?! He smiles like that all the time!

Daniel enjoyed finding his Easter eggs on Sunday morning. He was super excited to find M&M's, crackers, and peanut butter chips in some of them! His basket was filled with new stickers, a lizard pen, a Buzz Lightyear notebook, an Easter book, a baseball hat, two eggs with candy, a toy submarine, and a new shovel. The shovel was by far the biggest hit, and he spent the rest of the afternoon outside, digging in the dirt. Aunt Heather hooked him up with a wheelbarrow, and he was in heaven.