Pee Pee in the Potty!!

Colden started showing signs of getting ready to be potty-trained over the past month or two.  

He would tell us right after he went in his diaper...

He didn't want to sit in his dirty diaper...

He wanted to watch us go to the bathroom (fun times)...

He started using bathroom-related words (i.e. bathroom, potty, pee pee, poopies, wipe, flush)...

While Mike and I were proud of these steps towards using the potty, we weren't sure when to actually start the potty-training process.  Colden answered that question for us.  Colden and I were in the bathroom brushing teeth when all of the sudden he stopped and said, "poopy potty".  He ran over to the toilet and started to take off his pants.  I thought, why not?  I'll sit him down and see what happens.  He was on the toilet no more than 5 seconds and then he peed in the toilet!!!!!  I don't know who was more surprised, me or Colden.  :-)

Mike and I went out and bought him his very own toilet seat to fit on the toilet.  He has yet to go again in the toilet, but he loves to try.  Not sure we have entered the "active" potty-training stage just yet, but at least he's interested - and that's Step #1.

 

 (Yes, his favorite part is to flush the toilet and watch the toilet paper "disappear")

Haircut

We used to get Colden's hair cut at our friend's barbershop.  However, with nothing to distract him from what was actually going on (besides 2 frantically dancing parents, snacks and a mirror), the haircut experience turned into a 20 minute nightmare for everyone involved.

We decided to try some place new.  A place specifically designed for kids.  We went with our friends, Nicole and Benjamin.  Both boys got to pick which car they wanted to sit in.  Benjamin picked the snazzy red race car.  Colden picked the pink, Barbie jeep.

For once, I didn't have to dance around to get him to sit still.  After all, he was sitting in a car AND watching Sesame Street on his own private flat screen TV. 

 

After the boys were done getting their hair cut, they were each rewarded with a balloon and a lollipop. 

 

So handsome.  Such a good boy.  SOOOOOO worth it.  :-)

Colden Reading

Colden has so many books that he could open his own library.
Out of all of his books, he definitely has a few favorites that he routinely asks for.
One of those books is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
We have read it to him so many times, that he can now read it to us!

 

(Click here for "Brown Bear" video)