Potty Time

It's official! Will has started to use the potty! Since this is a pretty big milestone I figured I had to document it. Will was showing interest in the potty at daycare so his teachers encouraged him to use it and he did it! We now have a potty for our house which he seems to really like. He isn't at the point where he asks to use the potty but when we say "Will, it's time to go to the potty", he says "yes" and then leads us up to the bathroom to go. We've already had several successful trips to the potty! He has a hard time saying potty and instead it comes out as "papi" (sorry Denis!). I can't believe we are already at potty training time. Where did the time go? I think we still have a while to go before we no longer need diapers but I am excited that he is taking an interest so young. Go Will!!

The Royal Throne

2 Months

Two months have come and gone so quickly and our little guy is growing like a weed. At 2 months, Jack weighs 12 lbs 5 oz and is in the 70th percentile. He is 24.5 inches long which is 93rd percentile and his head is 16 inches which is a little over average at 73rd percentile. His height compared to weight is only 5 percent which means he is a string bean...long and lean. He has become much more active this month and requires much more attention from Eric and I. He hates sitting in his bouncy seat and much prefers to be held and rocked in our arms. 7-11pm is his "witching" hour and I have spent several hours bouncing on an exercise ball in an attempt to get him to quiet down and fall asleep. However, once he does go to sleep for the night he usually sleeps for 4 1/2 to 5 hours before getting up for a feeding and then goes back down again until morning. He is a very happy baby and smiles and coos whenever we talk to him. Jack is also starting to be very aware of Will and always smiles when Will is paying attention to him. Will is so great with Jack and can't get enough of him. The first thing Will does when he wakes up is come into our room saying "baby, baby" and isn't happy until we show him Jack. The past two months have been a bit crazy in our house trying to juggle bath times, feedings, bed times and play time but we couldn't ask for anything better! Enjoy the pictures!





So far Jack still has his daddy's eye color!



Check out this boy's eyelashes! All the girls are going to be jealous.











Look Mom, I found my hand!

And man does it taste good!

Sesame Street Friends

I had to post a picture of Will's collection of animals (and a doll) that he carries around with him because it cracks me up. I know kids usually have a favorite stuffed animal (or two) but Will has 12 favorite stuffed animals. The collection has stemmed from his obsession with Sesame Street. Will can't just carry one or two, he has to have all 12 of them at all times. The only problem is that he can't carry all of them at once so in order to bring them into another room, he has to make about six different trips back and forth because he takes them two at a time. He knows exactly how many he should have and if one is missing he runs around the house until he finds it. Sometimes he gets tired of carrying all of them himself and hands them to Eric or I and then grabs our hand and bring us (and the animals) someplace. The stuffed animals have added about 10 minutes onto bedtime because first we have to make sure all the animals are acounted for and then he has to put them in some sort of order on his bed before he will go to sleep.

We are still working on all the sesame street characters names and so far he has three names he can say (in Will language). Cookie=cookie monster, Deo=Elmo and Lala=Abby

And to think that I had been worried that he didn't have a favorite stuffed animal he liked to sleep with. Looks like I don't have to worry about that anymore!

Here he is carrying half of his collection

Transporting the collection to the kitchen

Santa was Here!

We continued the present opening on Christmas morning. Will's reaction was so cute when we walked into the family room. His eyes lit up when he saw the presents and he had the biggest smile on his face. Again after each gift he unwrapped, we had to take it out of the box so that he could play with it. It took us forever to get through all the gifts because he played with each one for 5 minutes even after our attempts to speed things along.







Will got a doctor kit from Santa which he loves. He went around and listened to everyone's heart and took our temperature.



What do you mean Santa didn't get me anything?? What am I, chopped liver?


Next up Eric's family came to our house for Christmas day dinner. This was our second holiday hosting at our house, however, I'm not sure I can get away with saying we hosted it. Eric's mom and Aunt did most of the cooking (and cleaning!) for us. I covered the turkey and lasagna..they did everything else which was wonderful! I could host every holiday if they were all that easy!!





Nana and Jack

Will was telling a story in his picture. Unfortunately, no one knew what he was saying except Will.

Papi and Will

Merry Christmas Eve!!

This year we were fortunate enough to celebrate Christmas in our new home with our newest addition to the family. We kicked off the Christmas festivities with my parents on Christmas eve. It was so nice to enjoy a relaxing evening at our house by the fire.

Of course this Christmas was even more special since we had two little guys to celebrate it with. I think Jack slept through most of the evening but Will had enough excitement and energy for the two of them. As usual, Will made out like a bandit in the gift department. He was still a little young this year to understand Santa and everything else leading up to Christmas but the second he opened that first gift (a Sesame Street toy..Will's favorite) you could see a spark in his eye as he realized that presents=new toys for Will. He had so much fun opening everything and of course he had to have every toy out of the box before he would move onto the next one. Here are some pictures from the night.




Will is in his helping stage now and insisted on serving everyone the cheese and crackers. By the end, every piece of food had been touched (or chewed) by Will.

Let the gifts begin!




A new play kitchen

And a Thomas the train pop up tent. Here is Will in his tent saying "choo-choo".

Jack slept through all the gift opening excitement.

Cheese!

Getting a 1 1/2 year old to hold a baby is not easy. And trying to get the binky out of his mouth is near impossible...

I struggled to get Will to sit in front of the tree with Jack but he insisted on bringing Jack into his new tent.


And then Eric...

Grandma, Judu and the boys


Here was my attempt to take a picture of Eric with the boys. As you can see, Will had enough with the picture taking at this point.

Hey Will..look over here..

Where are you going?

Can you just sit down next to daddy for a minute?

Almost!

Oh nevermind.....

Since Jack missed out on most of the activity at the beginning of the night, I was able to snap a few pictures before we went to bed. Seeing that it was his first christmas and all, I felt bad that I didn't have many pictures of him!