Monday, September 30, 2013

Crazy Busy Weekend (and potty talk)

We had a VERY busy weekend here! Phew!

Starting Thursday...

chowing down on green beans-- Andy eats them like they are French Fries! He LOVES them!


Jake was protecting us.  

This was the Target run mentioned in the previous post.  I love when they are sweet...

Showing off his new underwear....!

Thursday's soccer practice was picture day... 

FRIDAY...
First of all, Andy went to school on Friday in big boy underwear, per his teacher's request.  I emailed her on Thursday and gave her a brief overview of the past few days and she said it's best to keep him in "training mode" but to send in several changes of clothes. This is what he was wearing when I picked him up...

 NOT what he was wearing when I sent him to school.  Nor was it one of the three back up outfits I sent in.... he went through every article of clothing I sent in and was wearing lost and found clothes.  Yup.  That was my boy! (Cal had a similar experience with having to wear lost and found clothes too when he was training). 

I took flowers to his teachers at pickup.  They were either going to be "Thank you!" flowers or "I am so sorry" flowers.... as soon as I pulled in and saw him, I knew they were the latter.  His teachers could not have been sweeter and were so so encouraging. 

To say I was discouraged after that would be putting it mildly. 

However, he did not have one accident the rest of the day!

We went over to a friend's house Friday night for pizza and I was totally paranoid.  They just moved into this new house and I did not want my son to "christen" the floors...

 But he did great! He went on the potty twice while we were there and had no accidents!

 Cal loves the ladies!

Saturday morning, we had a babysitter come and Eddie and I went to the football game.  We had to send the family the game day pic...

I got to see my sweet friend Julie at the game.  She makes me happy...

I was worried how Andy would do with the sitter on Saturday.  I wasn't sure if he would tell her when he had to go or if he would agree to go when she asked him.  He had a small accident while they were playing outside, but he went the rest of the day without issues-- yay!

We got home from the game exhausted and I wasn't feeling great.  I woke up with a sore throat on Saturday and I was feeling achy all over.  We got the kids fed and in bed and I was in my bed by 7:45.  I think the sleep did wonders for me! I felt fine on Sunday morning!

Sunday, we woke up ready to play and Andy was ready to go in his big boy underwear...

The boys did some playing and snuggling while I got myself and things ready for church-- my niece, Margaret was being baptized that morning!
I was worried about the church service and being in a different church than ours that it would be hard on Andy with training-- so I put him in a pull up and he did great! No accidents! (well, that I know of...).

The boys both wanted to wear bow ties to church...


I can hardly even believe that these sweet, wild, crazy boys call me mom.  How lucky am I??

Crazily enough, I could not find shirts that fit them-- try to ignore the fact that these are so small on them... I am going shopping soon....



The boys sat IN church for the service-- and it was a LONG service! For the most part, they did really well! Cal and jackson were next to each other so Cal did whatever Jackson did- ha!

The service was long (have I mentioned that) and I think by the time we took pictures and got in our car to go home it was 1:00-- so Eddie and Andy went home for naps and I took Cal to the family brunch. It was delicious and he was really well behaved-- always a bonus!

Family pictures...





Sweet Catherine spent some time on my lap so we had to take a selfie...


Speaking of selfies, I got one with Margaret too...

Cal had a friend's birthday party at 2:00 on Sunday, but we were still in brunch so we ended up missing that one.... but that was okay, because he had another one at 3:15! PHEW! We raced home after brunch, changed out of our church clothes and were off to the next party!

Brad was at this party, so you know Cal was excited...and wild...


Trying to get a group pic...

 We left the party and headed home, exhausted! Cal was yawning in the back seat and I was pretty spent too.  It was a busy weekend!

Hank was sick of missing out on all of the fun, so he jumped up in my car while I was unloading... just to make sure he didn't miss anything else! (those are not all my diet cokes in the car.  i swear.  that's embarrassing though...)


As far as potty talk goes... Andy has done REALLY well today-- and yesterday too! We ran a ton of errands today and he did great- zero accidents (knock on wood!).  He came close to an accident in the parking lot of Cal's school-- he started saying "oh no, peepee! peepee!" so I snatched him up and sprinted over to the edge of the parking lot and told him to pee on a pine cone.  This was his first time standing up to pee, and I think he thought it was awesome.... hahahaha!

I am proud of my little guy... let's hope he continues this....especially on Wednesday when he has school-- he owes his teachers a little! hahahaha



 
 
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