Boy potty training

So many differences potty training a boy versus a girl! Reid is on Day 3 and doing great! He is still working on #2, but had the peeing down!

This next one shows how he sits on the toilet...he discovered this position on his own and while it grosses me out that he touches so much of the toilet, he is able to keep all of the pee IN the toilet! Great trajectory and aim this way!! ...

Way to go big boy!

Funnies

ISierra: " It's so peaceful here."

Me: "Why is it peaceful?"

S: "because it's just you and me. Reid's not here; he's such a chatterbox. Ahhh, it's so peaceful."

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Reid, at nap time: "I just can't sleep because my sleep is stuck in my mind and I can't find it. So that's why I just have to play for a lot of minutes. But I can find my mind at night time when we read stories and then I can sleep. At night time. But not at nap time because I can't find my mind."

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As soon as we sat down at dinner, Reid looked in his bowl, then looked at Sierra with a very serious face and said "I don't like any of this food, Wife!" (They play Husband/Wife on and off all day. this moment was hilarious! We had a good hard laugh!)

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Sierra, while rambling..."God made us to have eyes and ears and arms and legs...because if we didn't, we would just be meatballs."

Hugs

Sierra has become a big hugger!! As in, she loves to give hugs, lots of hugs, all the time! It's often the only thing she needs to calm down after getting hurt or hurt feelings, etc.

This past week she has started hugging her baby brother (through my belly of course). It's really sweet. Every nap time and bedtime she gives me a hug and kiss and then gives my belly a hug and kiss and says "ok, now a hug for the baby"

She has a sweet heart and is already caring for her next little brother. What a great big sister!!

Cousins

I just love this. Each of their personalities are so precious. ... and Sierra thinks that Alex hung the moon.  :)

Performance

Tonight the kids said they had a performance for me to watch - I was the audience. I LOVE this! I remember doing tons of performances growing up and I love that now I get to be on this side of it.

The 1st round they found and put on their own costumes. Sierra is a fairy ( wings were added after the photo) and Reid is a Storm Trooper (he's never seen anything Star Wars but knows a surprising amount from his 6 yr old cousin). The fairy did a lot of dancing and twirling while the Storm Trooper walked around with a scowl on his face jabbing at bad guys.

Round 2 of performances called for a costume change. Sierra became a princess and demanded the stage to herself as she passionately belted out "Let it Go". Yes, a Frozen song. No surprise there. I wish I had gotten it on video. So much passion! Reid was a karate kid (he had help tying on his "belt"). He marched around with the same tough guy scowl, singing the "Bears, Bears" song and doing "karate" jabs.

The audience did a lot of clapping and the performers bowed each time.

I hope that memory stays with me forever. It was so cute!

Funnies

At dinner, Kyle took away a napkin that Sierra was playing with and she crossed her arms and said "Hey! You ruined my life!" And then very dramatically put her head down on the table. 

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Reid: oh no, the flowers are dying.

Sierra: I know, that's just how life is.

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After telling her to stay in her chair, she got down and was playing on the floor. I said "ok, you disobeyed. Lunch is over." And Sierra responds "But I need to go poo poo and my poo poo is makin me act crazy!"

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After breakfast, the kids were playing really well together and I decided to do a little work on my laptop, while enjoying a warm cup of coffee. I looked over at them and told them I loved how nicely they were playing together and Reid says "Mommy, just drink your coffee and look at your computer."

Boy stuff

Reid is all boy. He is really into playing "bad guy" and "good guy", pretending anything is a sword or gun, protecting, defending, fighting with a tough guy expression on his face and fighting sounds, Nerf guns, trucks, etc.

This has lead to a lot of conflict with his girly, squealing, princess-loving sister!

Someone must have coached him on the role of little brother...he's really good at it! :)

Here's a picture from last night. He had been wearing the pirate hat for at least an hour and had just taken off the eye patch. While Sierra was brushing her teeth, he built a "pirate gate" in her doorway and sat on top of it to guard and keep her out. ...you can probably imagine how that went...