New Things & Last Day of School

Nick is getting bigger by the day. He recently moved into 9 month clothes (where of course we had no summer clothes). We have done a few new things with him in the past few weeks. We tried a bottle which he didn't have too much trouble with. We have also gave him a sippy cup of water, which he disliked - probably because of the water - but we'll keep trying. He has started to use the bath seat in the bathtub. Emma and Ryan love that they can all bathe together! It's a tight squeeze but they manage.

Emma is also moving on up - to a bigger size that is. She is firmly in 3t clothing. She is also trying out the potty. For the past few weeks, we have been using pullups to get her started on the whole process. Over the weekend, she asked to start wearing underwear. She did good over the weekend. So today, was the first full out potty day. She had 4 accidents. I knew from Ryan that she would need some accidents to understand the holding it for longer than 20 minutes concept. That took Ryan about a day. Funny to think we just did this with Ryan last summer. Wow, the difference between girls and boys. Anyway, in all her accidents she did come up and say she had to go potty - just a little too late.

As for Ryan, he finished his last year of preschool. He thoroughly enjoyed his class and teachers and will miss them all. For his last day, he had a park playdate with lunch. They also walked over to visit the fire and police stations. He had a great time, especially sitting in the big fire truck. We showed him the ambulance that took him to the hospital when he was 2, but he was rather frightened by it. He said he was afraid they were going to take him back to the hospital if he got in! So now he's off to kindergarten. He's pretty excited by it! Me, I'm excited by it too, when does school start again? The prospect of entertaining all three of them all summer is exhausting!