On Friday, March 11, we celebrated Matteo’s birthday. He was fortunate this year; his birthday fell on a weekday. Our family-only tradition has been to celebrate weekday birthdays at Fenton’s Creamery. This year, Grandma Johnie, David and Aunt Jessica joined the festivities. As usual, we had a great time – the calm before the storm! …
But, frankly, we are very busy with, well, life. Matteo is doing very well with his potty training. He wears pull-ups every day and sits on the toilet or stands next to it to do his business. Though we are quite pleased with his progress, he is still working on mastering the poop part. Sometimes …
I am not sure if we are jinxing ourselves by starting the diary this soon, but today Matteo said, “pee-pee”, which honestly I wasn’t sure if that meant he had to go to the potty. We haven’t really been taking him regularly; on occasion, we sit him down on the toilet, usually at bath time. …
In my last post, I forgot to mention that as we headed to the store, Christopher was saying “hello” to passers-by. Then, all of a sudden, as we heard a woman speaking Spanish to her children, Christopher, out of the blue, says, “¡Hola!” Amazing…
We find it difficult to believe that 11 months has passed since we brought Matteo home. Wow. In just one month, he will celebrate his first birthday. At this stage in his development, he crawls everywhere. Whether he crawls or cruises along the furniture, he gets around this house with the ease of an experienced …
For the last month or so, Matteo has been saying a few recognizable words. His first was, “Dad”, which really sounded like “Da”. At first, we thought he just might be making sounds, but he seemed to say it when we entered the room. Recently, he started saying, “hi” and “bye” as he waved to …
Well, the walking stick insects did not do the trick today. Sadly, Christopher cried, calling for daddy as I walked away with Matteo. I called a bit later to check, and of course he had eaten a BIG breakfast, and was happily playing. In the meantime, Matteo and I went to Peet’s for coffee – …
Today’s results – Successes: 12 Accidents: 2 Goal: diaper-free toddler by week’s end.
I knew the second I posted our first blog today, Christopher would prove me wrong. Accidents: 4 (three of these occurred within one hour of posting!) Successes: 8
We just had another accident. I think he was more surprised than I. Accidents: 2 Successes: 5
