Diapers & Cookies

I was never going to push potty training with Nate. It seems to be everyone's advice and I don't want the headache of months of pushing before he's ready.  Unless it got to the point where it was like, okay if you want to go to Kindergarten, you're going to have to use the potty. :)  We have been gently nudging him, asking if he wants to use the potty (always a no).  He seems interested when he sees other boys, like Josh or Landon, using the potty, but not enough to want to do it himself.  I know for some kids, wearing pull-ups or big boy underwear is an exciting thing but Nate has never cared about what he's wearing.  Jaime will post pictures of outfits that Landon has picked out himself and he is particular about his socks.  Not Nate.  Fine with me, no struggles when it comes to getting dressed.  He is happy if he has a dragon shirt (or some equivalent of coolness) on but doesn't care if he doesn't either.  Until a couple of days ago.  I ran out of diapers.  Crap.  Not literally yet, but about to be up to our elbows in it if I don't figure something out.  In Maddie's closet I find a box of size 4 diapers that Michael's mom had bought her for when she grows into that size (she's still in 3).  Mind you that Nate is in size 6.  I figure a four is better than a three and we can't go to the store until the next day so, that's what you're wearing buddy.  The diapers were Huggies and have Mickey and Minnie Mouse on them (we buy Target brand that has little blue and green dots all over, exciting, I know).  So Nate was ecstatic to wear Mickey! Yay! Until the next day when I get his regular diapers and suddenly he DOES NOT want to wear them anymore.  So now when it comes to diaper changes, if he's thinking about it, he has to wear the ones with Mickey.  Luckily, he doesn't usually think about it unless he has recently seen them (I need to do a better job hiding them).  Soooo, looping back to the potty training thing, I think that I might buy him some big boy underwear, just to see how it goes.  He might really like wearing them and might really might NOT like wearing them when they're wet.  We shall see.

Now that I'm looking back, this seems like a long, drawn out post just to say I'm getting him underwear. That's what happens when your husband is away. :)

My little Maddie.  She is shaking her head no now.  Hilarious.  It kinda is, sometimes. Okay, a lot of the times.  She's just too stinkin' cute. She knows where her teeth are and she can "wash" her hair.  She is working on the pig sound but she doesn't use her nose to snort, she kinda does this throaty grunt.  It's weird but cute.  And the last couple of days she does not want to be fed. It's okay for me to put the food on the fork but I have to hand the fork off to her so she can feed herself.  I should have known chili mac for dinner was a bad idea.  It wouldn't stay on the spoon when she tried to feed herself and she wouldn't let me feed her so it ended up a finger food.  Messy! 

 I found a cute idea on pinterest to make skeleton cut out cookies using the gingerbread man and icing for the bones.  The original recipe called for chocolate sugar cookies but since Nate can't have chocolate we made gingerbread cookies.  Kind of weird since it's not Christmas time, but eh, a cookie's a cookie.  I've never made gingerbread cookies before.  The kids seem to like them but I'm not a big fan.  We tried icing the cookies and of course look nothing like the wonderful pinterest picture, but Nate had fun squeezing the bag to decorate his cookie.