mommy, mommy, mommy

Absolute music to my ears - Mommy.  But, oh my....it is ALL about Mommy these days with Shane.  Daddy goes to wipe Shanes face and hands - No, Mommy.  Change his diaper - No, Mommy do it!  Get a drink, bathe him....you get the idea - Mommy!  Now, with reasoning, he usually gives in.  Usually.  There are times though when he will just turn on the tap and big croc tears start forming and that is followed by a bit of a tantrum.  Not just with Daddy trying to help him but any time the boy does not get his own way!  Thankfully though, Shaney will listen to reason and we can quite quickly bring him out of it.

I'm not complaining though, I get it....he is two.  Not like we haven't been here before.  I like writing these things down though so that I can always come back and see what was going on.  I just love this 'journal' type forum.

Our next big challenge is the potty!  And before you go all well, my kid was potty trained at 15 months (yes, I actually heard that one!..lol)....I am fully aware that we have been a little slack.  The potty is out...Shane has been introduced to it and quite frankly, wants absolutely NOTHING to do with it!  We did manage to get him to sit on it for a while..hoping something would happen. But nope.  In fact, he finds it quite funny when he runs away from it.  So, we have decided once we return from Florida, we will be consistent and follow through and get him there. 

Nicholas has just finished his March Break.  Unfortunately, he didn't get to do a whole lot and that is only because we are taking time off for Sydney's Spring Break and taking the family to Tampa.  But he did have one day with his cousin and I also took a family day from work and Nicholas and I had one of our date days.  We went out for lunch, did a little shopping and then to the movies.  We saw The Tooth Fairy which was actually quite good and funny too.  I just love going to the movies with Nicholas....looking over at him so small in the movie chairs with those big smiles of enjoyment...lots of fun!  

The weather is totally worth writing about this week as well (sunny 17 and 18 degrees all week....FABULOUS!).  And with Nicholas being all hermit like this winter, it was good for him to get outside and play all week.  With much resistance though.  Both Auntie Cheryl and Lindsay, our daycare provider, told me how much Nicholas protested going out.  And I just find that alarming(!)....so now that Spring is upon us, it's out the door as much as possible! 

Big news this week with Sydney.  It seems our 15 year old wrote the test for her learners permit (I can't remember what they call it in the south...sorry) this week and PASSED!!  I said something similar to her Mom earlier this week in the way that it seems just like yesterday that I was blessed to have this SIX year old girl in my life and now here she is, almost ten years later, a beautiful in every way teenager and driving!!  Way to go honey - Be Safe!

Well, my coffee is done...and my boy wants to play buses....and my house is crying to be cleaned.  One more week until Florida!  Yay!!!