STATE OF THE HENRY ADDRESS.

henry is in speech therapy here in Jacksonville.

 

he loves it and we love it.

 

we go in for an eval for occupational therapy and hopefully we will love her too :)

 

 

 he's also been watching lots of football with daddy....

 

 

....and has upgraded to a big boy bed - MY old big girl bed :). It's seen better days, but it serves the purpose for now.

(please ignore the dirty bedrails - they were free and will be cleaned pronto)

(also, this bed used to be a four-poster with a canopy. sigh. I loved that bed.)

 

all in all, henry has had a great month!

HENRY: POTTY TRAINING

i think we're just about there. pooping on the potty, no. but we're consistently going pee-pee on the potty :)

 

this is our second real attempt. the first time was a huge failure and i just convinced myself that he wasn't ready. the second time, i knew he was ready and that he was just being a stubborn little...guy.

 

we made the decision, talked to irma, and got started. started on a saturday. and he didn't pee in the potty until sunday night. sigh.

 

we had a slow start to the week*, but this weekend just clicked for us. we took his potty ring (for a big potty) to church and he successfully did it...four times (!!!). we took it over to lucille's and he did it again (!!!!). we're very optimistic that someday our life will no longer revolve around his bathroom habits.

hallie especially is getting sick of all of the time we are spending in the bathroom.

she told me she wanted to stop with the potty training and then turned to henry and said, "i have lost my confidence in you." it was pretty hilarious.

 

we're still in pullups, but maybe after this weekend (six flags!) we'll make the transition to underwear. EEK.

 

*we had one major poop incident involving hallie sitting in poop and then finding large turds in the living room. it was so disgusting, i shouldn't have even put it on the blog, but i did.

BABY GETS A BUZZCUT.

i couldn't handle the hair anymore.

 

it was long and fuzzy and a total rat's nest in the back. and to make it slightly less traumatic (???), i decided to do it myself. because, why not?

 

also, i used clippers. a #5 all over. perfect.

 

does he look traumatized? i mean, really. i strapped him into a booster seat, turned baby einstein up and gave him a sucker. he should feel lucky.

 

except that i missed quite a few spots. whoops!

oh, a video? SURE.

 

DOLLAR BILLS, YA'LL.

i have been waiting for this day for a long time. there is nothing better than seeing my daughter reading for pleasure.

 

i made supper last night while she read "ramona" at the kitchen counter. it makes me so so so happy to that she loves to read.

 

 

 

also, check out her bookmark. yeah, that's how we roll.