They said it would happen...

I'll spare you the pictures for this post - they weren't pretty! Everyone that has had kids will probably read this and just laugh at me and remember the time when there kids did it - but still it is the worst thing EVER! ...

Brody is now in his big boy bed and does pretty well. If he doesn't want to sleep I don't really care as long as he stays in his room and is quiet. Today he was up there and then I heard him in the playroom. I went upstairs to put him back in his room and when I grabbed his hand I felt it first ... POOP - everywhere! He probably didn't want to be in his room because it stunk! He has NEVER showed an interest in taking his clothes off until today. He removed his shorts, and his poopy diaper (also another first). That alone would have probably been okay if he hadn't stepped in the poop and then continued to walk around the room. Since I obviously didn't see it happening this is all how I guessed it could have happened. He doesn't like being dirty, so I think he must have tried to clean his feet off and thats how his hands got dirty. So I found little Brody poopy footprints all over his room and a path to the playroom. I found books with poopy fingerprints and poor Mr. Potato head will never be the same. His sheets and pillows and comforter were all dirty too.

I lost it. I know I didn't react how I should have - but bear in mind it was poop all over my new carpet. Brody got put into the tub (after I removed all the bath toys so I didn't have to clean them again) and scrubbed down. I kept asking him why he took his diaper off and he just looked at me and then looked down and cried. I was so angry. I spent forty five minutes scrubbing poop out of carpet and I have a pile of laundry now that is at least 3 if not 4 loads. Ordinarily I wouldn't really care about some extra laundry, but we are having family come in town tomorrow and I already had a list of more things to do than usual. It just made it all the more irritating.

After it was all cleaned up I pulled out some big boy underwear and explained that poop belongs in a diaper or in the toilet and if he'd like to poop in the toilet he could wear the big boy underwear. That seemed to make him happy. We'll see. I just hope this is the only time this happens.

One out of 100

Until now I had been using my doctor in California to refill some perscriptions for me, but finally he cut me off. So, I had to get myself established out here with a doctor and I went in on Tuesday thinking it would be a quick visit. It was relatively short, however he noticed I hadn't had a tetnus booster in 11 years. Darn it. I don't mind needles at all, I don't mind getting shots - but I HATE the tetnus shot. I remember the last 2 I got because of how awful I felt the next couple of days. In first grade I couldn't move my arm for what felt like forever (I did get to miss school though) and in 1997 I remember my arm looked as if I had been hit by a baseball and had a severe bruise that had its own temprature several degrees hotter than the rest of my body. But, I took the shot anyway hoping for the best. So far it is the worst yet (in my limited opinion). I started throwing up at 3:00 in the morning and proceeded to continue until after 6:00 am. So gross. I hate throwing up. Brandon was gone, and for some reason when no one is there with you it just seems worse than it is. The information sheet they gave me about the shot says 1 in 100 people will have a reaction like I did. Go figure I'd be the lucky one!

Miss Ella at 4 Months

Weighed in at 13 lbs 1/2 oz - a big surprise to mom who thought she seemed more chubby than that.
Length: 24 3/4 inches - 6 1/4 inches more than her birth length!
Head: 41.5 cm - don't know what that equates to, but most likely big like the rest of her family.
Shoe Size: Most size 1s are still too big - others that have had girl babies is this normal? For awhile I was afraid she might be a dwarf because her feet aren't growing! By this age Brody was well into in size 2's.
Hobbies: Blowing bubbles (seen in picture below), playing with her fish on the swing and the giraffe on the floor gym.
Talents: Being a makeshift parking lot for all her brothers cars.
Notable Achievements: sleeps 10-12 hours at night, can roll over both ways (tummy to back and back to tummy)
Bad Habits: sucking thumb (although mom doesn't think so since it makes her happy...and it is so cute to watch!)
Goals for the future: Growing more hair for mom to play with, sitting up without help and eating solid foods.

Our Happy Little Girl!

Our Potty Success!

Since Easter when Brody got his potty chair he will occassionally say "wanna sit on potty." We've had him sit on it, but more often than not he wants his clothes on so not much happens. But tonight he asked to sit on the potty and he was getting ready for bed so we took his diaper off and sat him on the potty to read his bedtime story. He sat there listening to the story for awhile and then I heard it ... he peed! I immediately made a big deal out of it - to which he looked at me like I was some sort of freak and went on talking about his book. We had been playing yesterday and today with some big boys and he saw them use the potty, so I am wondering if it helped him want to try. I am glad he is starting to "get it" - although who knows if he'll even care tomorrow!

We also recently set up his big boy bed. He has taken naps in it, but when I put him in it at night he climbed out and fixed the sheets and blankets and put the pillows and shams back where they belonged. When I walked in his room he was sitting on the bed reading books. I was too lazy to keep putting him back in bed and laying with him does nothing to help the situation, so I just put him in the crib and he went right to sleep. I just thought it was funny to walk in and see that he liked his bed made and didn't want to have it messed up to sleep in. I took his picture in it and he looks so small. It makes me a little sad (but happy too) to see my little boy doing all these new big boy things.