Potty Training?

Jake pooped on a potty today (5/13) for the first time.... Drew has been using the potty for quite a while but only does #2 there. Up until a few days ago, I would have said he ONLY did #2 in the potty.... so more than likely we should have been potty training but now it has been put on the back burner. We are simply sitting on the potty at certain times of the day every day and hoping they might actually go. If they do, great! If not, oh well -- we tried. We plan to use up the rest of our diapers (but not all of them - just in case) and then move on the pull-ups, and then go to underwear by the middle of the summer. That gives us some time to "play" on the potty for a few more weeks before we are in Potty Boot Camp (or Potty Poop Camp). We will cross our fingers that this will go smoothly!

Movies!

We took the boys to see "How to Train Your Dragon" and it went.... good enough. They really enjoyed all the parts where the dragons were in the scenes. Drew was even screaming because he was so happy to see them flying all over. However, screaming is not usually something that other movie viewers enjoy. So we lasted through about 3/4 of the movie -- which we thought was pretty good considering this was their FIRST experience in a theater.
Now we are all very excited & relatively confident for their next movie experience which will be Toy Story 3 in June!

What happened to March & April?

We have been doing a lot of stuff and will share some of our MANY moments during the rest of March & all of April of 2010.
First, we FINALLY ate some REAL veggies - broccoli. Well, actually Drew ate them and Jake just moved them around his plate and on the table.
We often could be found sleeping in the same bed. And even got rid of these bed rails because there seemed to be no point to them other than an invitation of something to climb.

If there is any way to climb into something, we will figure it out and get in. Here we figured out how to get into the dog toy basket -- with the dog toys still in the basket!


We have started to really like trains and found a cool way to spend a lot of time with a train for FREE.


We started to take swim lessons at our new gym, Lifetime Fitness. It has been a lot of work so far, but we are getting to the point where we are not super afraid of the water... until we go under... but we are still working on that. Here is a photo of us waiting for our instructor, Erin, on our first day of lessons.
Our new favorite song is "Dang Girl" (edited toddler-friendly version) and we love to watch the video and dance/sing while it is playing. We also had a new patio installed and absolutely LOVED when the "mini bulldozer" and "cent smeexer" (cement mixer) came into our driveway to do the work.