On the home front Jazz has taken on yet another school project; manager of the freshmen basketball team with another one of her friends. Sooo that means Mama has more running to do, however, one of our neighbors son is on the JV team so we take turns every week picking them up. Not to mention in the last 2 weeks her braces have needed repair twice!
Joce is still a busy bee with NJHS and Student Council...she's had candy grams, school carnival, new student tours, and a neon themed dance-WHEW!
Gideon has had quite the month. He will try to mimic words we say if we ask him..."Gideon" is "yee-on". "Milk" is "mill". "One, two, three"-"un, un, UN"...this one is funny because he does it on his own when play running, jumping or rolling. He has also started playing more imaginative. He has a Little People Drummer Boy set with animals and during the day I will find him moving the animals and talking in his own way. And he is almost potty trained...I say almost because he can't say he needs to go...we just remind him and watch for the poop signs. He runs to sit on his potty and gets up clapping when done. An accident here and there over the course of each week but that's bound to occur and it has been less frequent in the past 2 weeks. He wears a diaper at night but dry as a bone in the morning...we'll keep that for now. We started with diapers and having him go throughout the day and that felt like forever...that was at 16 months. Around 17 months we still kept the diaper up but started getting him used to undies with a little folded cloth diaper in the front--just in case--which was good. If he had an accident he would realize he was wet and I'd rinse/throw it in my diaper bucket (water and clorox) until I washed. And all of a sudden it just clicked at the end of 17 months. In the last week we've ventured without the diaper and he goes while out:) At the zoo he wore a diaper but went in the bathroom there. :) It is a lot of work in the sense of time but was well worth it for me; even if I'm the one whose "potty trained" to some. Thanks mama for reminding me he'd get it...I forgot with the girls being so long ago how to get it going and the time it takes. :)
In other news, we celebrated a birthday at our house since Papa Tom lives down here.
And as I mentioned we ventured out to the zoo with Grandma Debbie who came to visit for Thanksgiving.
Haha...no that puddle isn't from Gideon. :)
And Thanksgiving was wonderful...I cannot believe I didn't snap more than one photo...Gideon helping with the stuffing for the bird at 5:00 am!!! That boy is an early riser on a daily basis. :)
Oh and finally, our garden!
