iphoto dump & potty training update.

you guys, this last week has been rad.

parker has taken to potty training like a boss & seems to be getting the swing of it.  elliot has started sleeping in longer stretches consistently & i'm feeling like normal life is just around the corner.  i've completed most of the editing for all the sessions i've done in the last month & am feeling like a weight is slowly lifting off my shoulders... and?  we are having awesome stormy, wet, soggy, grey fall weather.  i love it.

some of you have asked what we're doing for potty training.  if you're curious, read on... if not, skip this paragraph & look at the pictures!  the truth is, we kinda jumped into it without a huge game plan or any research {i totally thought i'd have an entire strategy mapped out & would have done buckets of research to know exactly what we were doing... but no, we just made it up as we went along}.  basically parker just woke up one day & we told him no more diapers!  he spent the first three days pantsless except naps & nighttime, when he wore a diaper.  we coaxed him into going potty on the toilet & rewarded him with an m&m when he went.  we would have him try like every 15 mins for the first day & before long, he was telling us he had to go & went running to the bathroom.  he got it pretty quick.  goin #2 has taken a little more time but i think we're coming out the other side successful.  the first few times he pooed on the toilet he was pretty terrified & really didn't like it.  a couple accidents in his pants later he realized that was no fun either & has been going on the toilet.  so...?  hopefully we're good.  we've resumed normal life {besides the potty that hangs out in the back of my car for use while out doing errands... that may not be normal} and i can count the number of accidents he's had while we're out on one hand in the last two weeks.  yay potty training!

{update.  parker just woke up from his nap & pooed in his pants 10 minutes later... but he DID realize it & run to the bathroom & finished his business in the toilet, so... progress???  whattyagonnado.}

if you have specific questions about what we did, just ask in the comments & i'll reply in the comments!  ok, enough about potty training.

here are some iPhotos of what we've been up to in the last two weeks.  and if you're wondering what has happened to week in iPhotos, well, i just can't keep it up consistently so my good bloggy friend suzanne over at bebehblog has taken it over!  so it's in transition... go link up with her & keep the tradition alive!