Potty training and Cars 2

Corbin is doing so well with potty training! He is ever the stubborn boy and won't tell you when he needs to go and will just go on his own. I ask him every half an hour if he needs to go and he usually says "No!" He has only had a few accidents and some were just dribbles and he changed his underwear and shorts himself. He is very independent and stubborn! He can also hold it for hours! While we were having rest time on Thursday he even ran over to the potty and pooped! We were so excited we had to call Daddy! I have told Jason that we cannot leave him alone at all because he is starting to LOVE to hide when needing to poop. Daddy is still trying to learn this as two times when daddy was watching him he has gone in his underwear! OH well its a learning process for ours all! :)

He got the reward of going on a date with Mommy and Daddy yesterday, just the three of us to go to see Cars 2. He was pretty good considering every other movie we have gone to with him he is up and running around. He also didn't have rest time or a nap yesterday and we went at 4:15 to the movie which is usually when tantrums and all hell breaks loose for him and he is super tired by then. He sat and watched almost the whole movie but got antsy towards the end. the movie was super cute! We have been putting a pull up on when we venture out over our underwear in case of accidents and wouldn't you know every time we have gone out he has been DRY when we get home! At the movie yesterday towards the end he screamed I have to go potty! (This is one of the first times hes told me he needs to go. The first day we potty trained he told me "I feel like pee pee is going to come out" and then he ran and went pee!) So we RAN to the toilet and he refused to sit on the toilet! I discovered that he was DRY he hadn't gone for over 3 and a half to 4 hours! He made me leave the rest room stall and then he peed standing up! (first time for him!) I was so excited! Bathroom etiquette while out is something we are going to have to work on though! He kept trying to crawl under the stall and see Jason while I was in the restroom. NOT fun!

We are so proud of our Corbin! :)

We also have tried to modify his diet this summer by eliminating excess refined sugar and cow milk. (You may have seen all these new blogs on my blog roll about gluten free/lactose/casein free and refined sugar free diets.) We decided to do this after both sets of parents have commented that he may be ADHD! We already knew this of course because I am ADHD, We have already all been drinking almond milk for awhile now although Corbin still does not like cereal with almond milk. My dad and sister are Lactose intolerant and we are trying to see if this will help with tummy troubles. So far Corbin has made a world of difference with eliminating excess sugar, he listens more attentively, and doesn't have as many melt downs!

on the market again

Our boys LOVE to wrestle each other!

Gray and Corbin in "big boy underwear!" ;)

Grayson in big boy underwear... we were asking Corbin if he wanted to put on underwear and Grayson says "bablaha (insert babbling here) pu on unnner." He is really trying to have conversations with us! So we put on a thicker training underwear on him. This kid may be potty trained well before his brother! Corbin is SO stubborn and terrified of the big toilet! We are just really going to have to force the issue this summer big time! I keep telling him he cannot go to the busy bee class, the 3 year old classroom, until he is potty trained!

We put our house on the market April 1st for a second time. We have only had three people come look so far and no offers. We got feedback from two people. One couple said they wished we had a loft upstairs and the other our kitchen was too small. Its highly stressful having our house on the market but its super clean and that's hard to keep up with when you have two young children. In both cases too the people said the house showed beautifully! :)

Fingers crossed we aren't waiting six months to sell this house! The poor boys are totally off their nap schedules and Corbin didn't get to nap both days last weekend because we were gone at parents houses thinking people were going to call but they didn't. We've decided as a family we are going to just stay home on the weekends until we get a call and then worry about it then. Its easier for the boys!

An important big boy moment!

This morning after religiously sitting on the potty every morning this week Corbin finally peed in the potty! Every morning before we go to school Corbin has been watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Disney channel (that show is totally annoying but I love the way Corbin says Mickey Mouse!) Almost every time we watch that show a pull-ups commerical comes on with a kid who is about three and he says "Uh Oh I gotta go potty." Then he does his business and says "I did it!" Corbin thinks this is great and we have talked A LOT about that commerical and how he went pee pee and that Corbin can do it too!

He had sat on the toilet for about an hour before anything happened. He peed five minutes after I gave him some water! He was so cute "Mommy, I did it!!!" I was so excited I screamed and ran upstairs to tell Jason! Corbin got a special treat; m&ms.

We went out and bought Cars underwear and some cute other ones from Carters that have dump trucks and other fun boy things!

We are so happy that Corbin finally knows what your supposed to do. He keeps wanting to poop in the potty but its always after he has just gone in his diaper. Oh well! We will continue to work on it!