(Potty training Carlyle, almost 3 years old)
Carlyle: Ahhh! I need to go to the bathroom! (runs in the kitchen with pants off and poops on my floor)
Me: Oops it looks like you already went. Let's go upstairs and take a bath.
(In the bath)
Me: Carlyle, you aren't in trouble, but do you understand that you need to tell me sooner if you need to go to the bathroom, so we don't have accidents on the floor?
(Carlyle looking very confused)
Carlyle: I pooped a hot dog in the kitchen!
I don't love talking about poop but honestly this was hilarious! It was the first time he realized the physical structure of his bowels and compared it to what he was familiar with. I was not sure if he would want to eat a hot dog again... but it didn't seem to phase the child!
So I love talking to my children when I am driving. I like to ask them the things they see out the window and what direction I am going. Sometimes the things they are noticing are things I never would have picked up on myself and they continue to amaze me. Carlyle started telling me when the light was green or red, so I said "yes, on red we stop, and on green we go, and sometimes you see yellow which means slow down." (or speed up in Utah).
So now when we drive, we will be engaged in a quite conversation or listening to the radio and out of no where I hear "STOP!!!" This is Carlyle yelling at me to stop because he has seen a red light. (Even if it is several blocks ahead.) Then as soon as it turns green he said "Go Mom! Go faster!"
Ok I have Lenore throwing a major fit and yelling "My "B" mommy! My B! SO I will have to catch up on the rest later!
Continuing on...
Recent things my children are doing...
Carlyle: He will be playing in another room from me, or coming down the stairs or using the restroom, and he wants my attention so he says, "Mom I need to talk you a second."
He will randomly comes up to me or interrupts a conversation I am having to say, "Mom, I love you!"
When you ask him who is best friend is, it varies between... hampa, mom, and Jesus. -It used to be Hudson and Lenore! (All good choices in my book!)
He told me the other day we need to live in Boise and he needs to go back to hampa's.
We asked him who was going to live in his new home, which is being built, He listed the five immediate family members and hampa.
He sometimes points to something and asks questions about it (even if it is the millionth time) he won't accept my acknowledgment until I am looking directly at the item. This means the turning of my head with his hands until I SEE what exactly he is talking about.
He is the biggest bedtime staler! He always needs to get a drink, or use the bathroom, or get kisses and hugs ( "I need kisses I need hugs"). He is a bed sneaker too. We put him in his bed to sleep, and come up stairs later to retire for the evening and find the little nugget in the middle of our bed past out so cute we never have the heart to return him to his own room.
He LOVES Hudson and Lenore! He always makes sure they have what he has and they are taken care of before anything. A couple of friends spit water in Lenore face the other day (they are little mind you)! and Carlyle went up to spit on them standing in front of her to protect her. (We don't encourage that behavior, but it is sweet to know that he will protect his sister at all costs!)
He has done this on several occassions however; when Lenore had just learned to walk a little boy at church went up to her and grabbed her hand to hold. Carlyle runs up and pushes him over and says "no, my ister!" Later, around Christmas, we were at temple square with some friends and a little boy came up to look at Lenore, apparently he got to close because again Carlyle ran up to him and growled as loud as he could at the kid. (I apologized to the sweet little boys parents both times.)
Lenore: She is the sweetest little girl EVER! She knows how to play her parents and any family member really, to get her way!
James and I were having a discussion in the car tonight on the way to Carlyle's soccer game. She wanted James's attention and just kept repeating , "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, DADDY!!!" Finally when he looked back and said, "yes Lenore?" She just gave him a big grin! How can that not melt your heart?
When she is grumpy she has a grumpy face! She has scowled since she was just a few months old and she had got that look down! She now does it on purpose sometimes just to make her brothers laugh.
She is also so sweet to her brothers. She brings them their toys and drinks, and blankets. She is Hudson's little mamma! She loves standing in front of him and says, "walk me! walk me!" Even if he just falls right over and crawls to her she still cheers for him so proudly!
She loves making Carlyle happy and has been known to share special candies and treats with him when he finishes his first. Now, I just need to teach Carlyle it isn't expect she always need to share when he eats faster than her. Sometimes he says to me like he is being really nice, "I share Lenore's". (As he reaching his hand out and she so generously gives it to him.
Hudson: What a sweetheart we have been blessed with! He is such a happy baby! He loves to laugh and play!
He can be a lot of work because he needs constant attention and likes being looked at all the time! I swear he knows when I turn my head for a second! He will cry and come speed crawling over!
He has taken a few steps but doesn't seem to be quite willing to walk fully on his own.
He LOVES bananas! He will now eat other table food, but for a while he would chuck anything else on the ground, throw his hands up and say "na, na, na, na". When I would give in and hand him a banana he would be so excited I would assume he has wet himself!
He sits by Lenore when we eat and if he finishes his food and wants more he just reaches over and takes it from her! She sometimes gets upset when she was about to take a bite of what he grabbed from her, but sometimes she just starts piling it on his plate she doesn't want it.
All the children have learned to trade food on their plates.
Continuing on...
Recent things my children are doing...
Carlyle: He will be playing in another room from me, or coming down the stairs or using the restroom, and he wants my attention so he says, "Mom I need to talk you a second."
He will randomly comes up to me or interrupts a conversation I am having to say, "Mom, I love you!"
When you ask him who is best friend is, it varies between... hampa, mom, and Jesus. -It used to be Hudson and Lenore! (All good choices in my book!)
He told me the other day we need to live in Boise and he needs to go back to hampa's.
We asked him who was going to live in his new home, which is being built, He listed the five immediate family members and hampa.
He sometimes points to something and asks questions about it (even if it is the millionth time) he won't accept my acknowledgment until I am looking directly at the item. This means the turning of my head with his hands until I SEE what exactly he is talking about.
He is the biggest bedtime staler! He always needs to get a drink, or use the bathroom, or get kisses and hugs ( "I need kisses I need hugs"). He is a bed sneaker too. We put him in his bed to sleep, and come up stairs later to retire for the evening and find the little nugget in the middle of our bed past out so cute we never have the heart to return him to his own room.
He LOVES Hudson and Lenore! He always makes sure they have what he has and they are taken care of before anything. A couple of friends spit water in Lenore face the other day (they are little mind you)! and Carlyle went up to spit on them standing in front of her to protect her. (We don't encourage that behavior, but it is sweet to know that he will protect his sister at all costs!)
He has done this on several occassions however; when Lenore had just learned to walk a little boy at church went up to her and grabbed her hand to hold. Carlyle runs up and pushes him over and says "no, my ister!" Later, around Christmas, we were at temple square with some friends and a little boy came up to look at Lenore, apparently he got to close because again Carlyle ran up to him and growled as loud as he could at the kid. (I apologized to the sweet little boys parents both times.)
Lenore: She is the sweetest little girl EVER! She knows how to play her parents and any family member really, to get her way!
James and I were having a discussion in the car tonight on the way to Carlyle's soccer game. She wanted James's attention and just kept repeating , "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, DADDY!!!" Finally when he looked back and said, "yes Lenore?" She just gave him a big grin! How can that not melt your heart?
When she is grumpy she has a grumpy face! She has scowled since she was just a few months old and she had got that look down! She now does it on purpose sometimes just to make her brothers laugh.
She is also so sweet to her brothers. She brings them their toys and drinks, and blankets. She is Hudson's little mamma! She loves standing in front of him and says, "walk me! walk me!" Even if he just falls right over and crawls to her she still cheers for him so proudly!
She loves making Carlyle happy and has been known to share special candies and treats with him when he finishes his first. Now, I just need to teach Carlyle it isn't expect she always need to share when he eats faster than her. Sometimes he says to me like he is being really nice, "I share Lenore's". (As he reaching his hand out and she so generously gives it to him.
Hudson: What a sweetheart we have been blessed with! He is such a happy baby! He loves to laugh and play!
He can be a lot of work because he needs constant attention and likes being looked at all the time! I swear he knows when I turn my head for a second! He will cry and come speed crawling over!
He has taken a few steps but doesn't seem to be quite willing to walk fully on his own.
He LOVES bananas! He will now eat other table food, but for a while he would chuck anything else on the ground, throw his hands up and say "na, na, na, na". When I would give in and hand him a banana he would be so excited I would assume he has wet himself!
He sits by Lenore when we eat and if he finishes his food and wants more he just reaches over and takes it from her! She sometimes gets upset when she was about to take a bite of what he grabbed from her, but sometimes she just starts piling it on his plate she doesn't want it.
All the children have learned to trade food on their plates.
