All Dry

Today was a landmark day in the Periwinkle household. It was the first day Ryan wore underwear all day and didn't have one accident. Not even a little! Woohoo, go Ryan!!! The best part is he told me every time he had to go and he did it almost all by himself. It was a little nerve wracking when he told me he didn't have to go every time I asked, but he was able to tell me when he did need to go.

The Boy Cracks Me Up

Ryan's conversation with a sippy cup that fell off the table(he gets that from his father):
"That was not a good idea!" [He gets down from his chair to get it]
His voice softens, " I love you, but that was not okay."
The sippy cup had nothing to say for itself.

A Fox?!

I just saw a fox run through our yard while we were outside playing. Um, aren't foxes supposed to be nocturnal?

NOTE: I just looked up "fox." I was right, the fox is indeed nocturnal. I wonder why it was in our yard mid-morning...

Ah, seek and ye shall find. This article says foxes move about during the day, especially when it is overcast. Indeed it is.

Bet you didn't think you were going to get a biology lesson this morning ;-)

Overheard from Our Bathroom

Mommy, Lily and Ryan in the bathroom waiting for Ryan to finish on the potty...

Mommy: Hello sweet Lily-put (one of my nicknames for Lily- I also call her Lily-pution sometimes)
Ryan: I'm Ryan-put. She is Lily-put and I am Ryan-put. Okay, mommy? Okay!

*I don't think he gets the reference;-)

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::Grunt, shuffle, shuffle::
Mommy: Ryan stay on the potty until you are all done.
::Grunt, shuffle, shuffle::
Mommy: Are you all done?
Ryan: No
Mommy: SIT on the potty until you are done.
::Grunt, shuffle, shuffle::
Mommy: Ryan we are not playing ring around the potty! We are using the potty.
::Grunt, shuffle, shuffle::
Mommy: Ryan you don't need to look every time...wait until you are finished to look.(I know, gross, but what are you gonna do? He's 2.)

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Mommy: Let's brush your teeth.
Ryan: Okay.
Mommy: Do you want your Piglet toothbrush or the Tigger one?
Ryan:Piglet [with a look that I can only describe as a mix of disgust and pity] Tigger knocks all the people.

*It's so funny to see how his personality plays out. He's so naturally empathetic. He feels bad for the "people" that Tigger knocks down when he bounces on them, but he also seems to feel bad about thinking Tigger did something mean. Interesting. I can totally relate.

I Dumped a Load

Ryan has been taking a long time to use the potty lately. I mean he will sit there for 30 minutes or more talking, playing and whatever else if I let him. Usually I sit in there with him and if Lily is awake she sits in the bouncy seat with us. I'm starting to think he is taking so long because he likes the attention. Considering all things(including the possibility of a mess) I hesitantly decided I would start leaving him in there alone after about 5 minutes. Since I have a mountain of laundry to do today I decided to start a load quickly while he was in there. I told him where I would be and headed downstairs. About a minute later he comes down the stairs holding the "shield" part of the potty telling me that it came apart. I asked him if he did a poopy and he said yes. I checked...He did. I walked his little pants-less self back upstairs to "clean up". As we are walking through the living room he says, "I dumped a load, mommy!" Realizing he is talking about the pile of small toys he had dumped from the back of his truck, but finding the humor in the irony of the statement I dryly said, "Yes. Yes, you did."

Maybe I should stop teasing the hubs about his middle school sense of humor ;-)