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hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend! We spent ours with family,
swimming, eating, and drinking (water for me…oh how I miss my wine!!!).
My niece, Ella, and I on Memorial Day
Well we are halfway into our pregnancy! I am 5 months today but am still not really showing…Last night I felt him moving around and looked down and my belly was moving as he kicked. I missed this feeling so much! No one will ever understand the emotions (joy, fear, excitement, curiosity) unless you have experienced a life growing inside of you.
I have been talking to Grayson about being a big brother and his responsibilities. I realize he is only 3 but he is so smart and I think he understands to an extent. At some point you have to start talking to and treating kids as adults to help them transition into growing up and making good decisions on their own. I think this is a good time to start with him. I don’t mean having serious conversations and expecting him to do chores or anything like that. What I mean is talking to him about sleeping in his big boy bed, sharing, going potty by himself, teaching him to brush his teeth, washing his body; those kind of things. He loves doing tasks on his own and he loooooves getting the prizes when he does a good job. I am determined to have this boy potty trained before Jeff gets back in a month.
So far, in the few weeks, he has only had a couple of accidents. Some things that have helped me:
-I started writing down the times he goes and noticed it was around the same time every day. So at those times I either keep asking him if he needs to go, or I will take his pull-up off and put the toddler potty in the living room (this works because we have wood floors), or I will put him on the potty myself around that time every 15min until he goes.
-Once he goes I make a big deal out of it! Give him his favorite snack, candy, sticker, tattoo, have him call someone to tell them, give him a hug and kiss and tell him how proud I am of him. He then is proud of himself.
-If your child is in daycare ask the teacher to write down what time they use the bathroom everyday so you can follow the schedule. At Grayson’s school they put him on the potty and at least try every 2 hours.
Jeff left for off shore about a week ago so Grayson and I are able to get back into our routine. When Jeff is in town it is harder to make him go to bed at a certain hour and eat dinner at the same time every night because our schedules are so hectic and we want to spend as much time together as possible at night. When Jeff left he told Grayson to take care of mommy while he was gone. The other day he was playing with a toy and it accidently hit my foot. He said “I kiss it mommy” I quickly replied “no buddy, you don’t need to kiss my foot” he said, in the sweetest little voice “Yeah, I take care of you momma”. Talk about bringing tears to a prego's eyes! I honestly believe he sees his daddy being sweet to me and he is learning to act the same way. I know there is no man out there that is sweet 100% of the time but we need to be sure to remind our significant others that they are their heroes, and no matter how young, boys are watching and will mimic the things they do and say. I am sure it is the same way with girls. They see their mommies acting like ladies and they will mimic crossing their legs, saying please, and thank you, etc. Let me know what you think and follow my blog, I have some exciting stuff coming up!
My sweet boy!
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