no privacy

We have made some progress on the potty training lately but really Colin just isn't interested. He knows exactly when he needs to go and tells me when he's peeing in his pullup, or diaper and big boy pants but unless he's really focused on it he just doesn't care. I guess for him there are better things to be doing and going potty slows him down. So I'm trying to be patient and we work every day on it. One of these days he'll just start going but until then he is in charge and he knows it. But since we've been working on it I have no privacy when I have to go to the bathroom. Here is a look into my day:

Me: Colin Do you have to go potty?
Colin: nope
Me: well I'm going to go potty (i go so much now with this baby bouncing on my bladder sometimes Colin rolls his eyes and gives me a look like really? Do you have to go again? you just went!)
Colin: Me come too - Me like to watch
Me: Ok but then you're next
Colin: oooo Momma - pee-peeing or poo-pooing? (to which i have to give an answer)
Colin dancing and yelling pee-peeing or poo-pooing or some song with those words he made up
Colin: don't forget to wipe
Colin: Let me see (when I'm all done he has to inspect the toilet)
Colin: Me flush - yea momma! Bye bye pee-pee
Me: Ok Colin now its your turn.
Colin: nope and runs into the other room to continue playing with what he was playing with before

haha sometimes I'd like my privacy but I just have to laugh during these times. Its especially funny to go into a public restroom and having him do the same thing and hear other women in the restroom giggling at our conversation.

flooding the sink

Last week I brought out Colin's water table and let him play in it since the weather was so nice. Today was cold and dreary so I wouldn't let Colin play with his water table. Instead I put a little water in the sink and let him float his boats and fish in there to play while I made dinner. Well I turned around and I saw the sink almost overflowing. (the first picture - the camera was right next to me so I was able to catch his expression when I noticed the flooding) So since he wasn't allowed to have any more water he decided to splash and make bubbles. (I hadn't told him not to splash - which resulted in the bottom picture when I felt some water hit me) Life is never boring here. He helped me mop the floor afterwards and that was almost as fun for him... I should just give him the mop next time.

Its a....

BOY! We found out today and are very excited. The noise level in our house has just increased. haha The baby had the hiccups which were cute to see on the ultrasound and Colin's favorite part was seeing the heart beat - "up down up down" as he kept calling it. Everything looked fine. And we were even able to get one of those 3D pictures and he had his hands around his face like he was praying. From what we can see he looks like he has the same nose as Colin. This baby boy LOVES to kick and is very active - almost more active than Colin which is amazing since even as a baby Colin never wanted to be still. And if he is MORE active than Colin we're in trouble! But the sweetest thing for me is that he kicks the most when Colin is cuddled up next to me talking. Almost like he knows his big brother is right there. Colin is still in love with the baby and loves to pretend his lego men are the baby and big brother and the big brother always has to find the baby. Although the other day Colin dragged me to his room and told me he had made me food in his play kitchen. He opened up the oven and there was my baby doll cooking and Colin told me to eat it. haha yuck and lets hope he doesn't try that with the real baby. But we are very excited about our new little boy and can't wait until he is born. Or as Colin tells him almost every day "baby come out and play now!"

A light dusting

Yesterday when Brent went to work (he leaves the house a little after 6am Monday mornings) he came back in to tell me we had gotten some snow. A light dusting. I'm not sure what the official measurements were but it was just a little snow. As soon as Colin woke up I had him dressed and outside within minutes so he could play in it before it all melted. He was so excited about the snow and ran around the back to make a snowman. (our front yard has a huge tree which caused NO snow to fall underneath it) But it was the crunchy snow so you couldn't even gather any of it up to make even the tiniest of snowman. Colin's response to not being able to make a snow man was"aww man - go back inside momma" The snow melted less than an hour later. It might be the only snow we get here but at least he got to see snow.

Our week in Pictures

Meal times are very entertaining when you get stories told like this
Monday it was in the 60s so we went outside to play in the afternoon. This is right before Colin made a huge mud puddle in the back yard to splash in. Messy but very fun to watch. We spent Monday morning playing with Jamie and Benjamin and that night Colin thanked Jesus for Benjamin, the baby, and cookies and dogs who eat cookies and lick his toes. (Jamie made cookies and her dogs liked the fact that Colin was willing to share) It was such a sweet prayer. A few days later it snowed. The flurries lasted about 15 minutes but we went outside anyways to play in it. Then came back in and I put rice into this pan and let Colin take his trucks and play in it. He loved it. And for those who remember his obsession with putting things in a lines... take a look at his trucks.Since the snow didn't last we made snowmen pictures later. This is Colin's version. He cut the hat, orange nose and cut the length of the scarf. And then glued all the pieces together. I think its wonderful! The next morning I decided to put shaving cream on the table and pretend that was snow (I would love snow once this year) and thought it would be fun. But look at his face. He complained that it was "TOO MESSY" and wouldn't do it. This after a few days ago of jumping in mud puddles. Oh well.Brent and Colin put on a play for me at the playground. Sunday after church we went to the beach as it got to be 75 degrees here. Its so nice to live so close. Colin played in the sand and on the playground they have right on the beach. He even shared his sand toys with everyone. He played so hard he was asleep 5 minutes after we got home. And this is a project yet to come. We spent Sunday afternoon working on his room. I got so many wonderful ideas from everyone on how to display Colin's artwork - so check back soon for the finished result. Its a work in progress but once its done I hope it looks as good as it does in my head. (just a hint - it involves the color GREEN which Colin is very proud of)

George Mason Basketball

We love the George Mason/ ODU game. We have gone the past two years and the alumni association is amazing. The GMU alum reserve box seats and not only give us tickets at a cheaper rate but they feed us some really yummy food. Good food, basketball, great seats - couldn't ask for anything better. Except for a better outcome. Each year our team loses but this year was so close. It came down to the last shot and was the most exciting basketball game I've ever been to. Poor Brent was so disappointed. Colin wasn't sure who to cheer for as we told him we were going to go see his "green team" that he watches at home and this week they wore yellow. oops... but he soon figured it out. But he also loved to cheer with the ODU fans too as it was most of the stadium. He thought it was great to yell and clap and jump up and down. Brent and Toby - they both went to GMU together and we're glad that Toby lives near us now!We took Colin with us and he had a great time. I think he might have eaten about 4 cookies that night :) but they were good. My sister Sarah came down for the game and made it even more fun. She took Colin down to see the ODU lion - or monarch i guess they call it. Colin used to be scared of lions. For the past few weeks he had been going to bed with flashlights so the lions don't bite him and even set out his stuffed animals as 'bait'. I have NO idea where this all came from but when he saw the lion at the game he was a little afraid and always had to know where it was. Then he saw other kids going up to the lion and wanted to go down and say hi. So his beloved Ant Ant took him down (we figured since Brent and I were wearing GMU gear she would have more of a chance at getting close to the ODU mascot) Colin was able to give the lion a high five and get his picture taken with Ant Ant. He later said to me "momma lions no bite - nice now" and has since stopped waking me up in the middle of the night clutching his flashlight in fear of the lion who would bite him. Thank you ant ant for helping him get over his fear. She also got him to go potty that whole day (we're on a potty strike at the moment) Anyone want to hire her? We had a great time and for all you GMU alum who are reading this please come visit next year - it just gets better every year!