Potty Trained!

I am so so so pleased to announce that we are officially potty trained in our house!! Yay! I am enjoying these few months of no diapers before they make a reappearance in our house in a short few weeks. Maddox has really done an awesome job so I can't complain too much. Sure, those first few days and on a few random days in those first few weeks I wanted to pull my hair out, but overall it wasn't so bad. Before we started, we talked about the potty a lot and even sat on it a few times. We went to the store and let him pick out some new big boy underwear so he was excited about that. He already had some Thomas underwear that Gigi had given him a while back, so he picked out a pack that had his new favorites, Toy Story and Finding Nemo.

The first couple of days were filled with accidents because we ditched the diapers and went to underwear cold turkey, but it didn't take him long to start letting me know when he needed to go. We made a big deal out if it every time he made it in the potty...lots of praise and even rewards (like suckers and popsicles) made him excited about it. We even promised him a new tricycle once he became a big boy and could use the potty everytime. He's had his eye on a new tricycle for a while so he seemed pretty excited about that.

We are happy to announce that we have been accident free (even on road trips) for a while now and we are now the proud owners of a shiny red Radio Flyer tricycle. Let's just hope that this all continues and we don't have any major setbacks once the new baby arrives. We are so proud of our big boy!!

Helping Daddy Recover...

Blake had his wisdom teeth removed yesterday or as Maddox says, "They fixed Daddy's teeth." He did really well and as always was quite funny when he was coming off the drugs they used to sedate him. Against my advice, Blake insisted on messing around on his phone on the way home and we discovered later that he somehow managed to delete all of his contacts, etc. off during that time. A lot of jello and mashed potatoes were eaten and of course there was a lot of napping too for a good bit of the day. Maddox even got in on the action and took a nap with his daddy to help him feel better. I just couldn't resist snapping a quick picture on my phone.