December 8, 2010

Tommy was taking his job of holding a gift during one song quite seriously. He knew when to shake, shake the gift as part of the song's motions. His first gift was shake, shaken loose by Tee Tom and had to be replaced mid-song because the package was coming apart from my aggressive package shaking son! He took it all in stride, though, and didn't melt down when his gift was shedding and had to be exchanged with a new one to shake.

Tommy had a BIG accomplishment yesterday evening...pee pee in the potty (finally!!!!) It's been many-a-week with "no diapie," as Tommy says. He reports to everyone in the family, especially Daddy, that he has no diapie on. But despite, "no diapie," there has been no successful
potty-ing going on at all. He had one tiniest of tiny poops (a poop droplet) a week ago...we celebrated it because he actually sat and tried for real for the first time. He's had quite a few pee pee mistakes and a couple poop mishaps...Yuck!! Not like the other kids...they just "got it" one day and went potty with VERY few accidents ever between the three of them. They were also right at three years old, whereas Tommy still had five months until he'd turn three. It helped that Fletcher had made a big deal of watching and learning from him, the big brother, last week. He showed him (again) how he holds his penis to go pee pee standing up. So Tommy's first successful attempt was a long (!) standing up pee pee. I didn't cheer, though I was kneeling right there holding Noah, until he was ALL the way done for fear of either me or Noah getting sprayed with a stream of urine. Tommy cracked me up when he was trying to pee one time a few days prior and while standing up holding his penis said, "Hey! Hide-nin!" He laughed that his penis was hiding! :)


Tommy's holding the elephant (hasn't let go since yesterday) that he chose out of "treasure box" for going potty in the toilet.

Paris lost her third tooth right before we left for Community Bible Study. It was her first top tooth. She may lose the top left one soon because it is also loose. Then she'd be able to sing, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!" Her good friend, Callie Adams, has no top front teeth right now and looks adorable. It would be a cute picture of the two of them together with no front teeth.

Paris can still fit in the Christmas outfit Gammy gave her last year. Praise God! She looks adorable in it. Yay, Gammy!!