Once Upon A Potty

We are potty training!  Although Graham was quite resistant to starting to learn to use the potty, I knew that he could do it.  So after a few full on battles, we made some definite progress.  Things have been going pretty well, and we are able to keep dry undies most days.  He has gotten pretty good at telling me that he needs to pee, but always wants help pulling down his undies and pants and getting on his little Lightning McQueen potty.  We have had a few poops in the potty, but we have also had a few accidents.  We started out with a prize bucket and a sticker chart and have moved into just using the sticker chart.  We still wear diapers for naps and nighttime and so far we have worn pull-ups when we go out, but I am very excited about our progress!

Getting the supplies together to get started!

Using the potty!

Potty chart!

A special prize that we bought with the money we would normally spend on diapers!

Clothes Call

We are stocked up for fall and winter clothes!  I was able to find some great deals and had some hand me down clothes from a former work colleague...look at all the stuff we have!!  Graham is set for the cold weather (which I cannot wait for)!

Baby Makes Four!

Baby P 2.0 will be making his or her big debut sometime at the end of February/beginning of March 2014 (official due date: March 3rd)!  We are completely thrilled to be adding (and almost certainly finishing) our family!
I am just finishing up my first trimester and this pregnancy has been VERY different so far!  While our journey to becoming pregnant was much like the first (pregnant the first month, again.  I told Michael that since we seem to be quite fertile people, we could always create a child army Duggar-style), I have felt no where near the energy, glow, fabulousness I did when I found out I was pregnant with Graham.  First, I was incredibly tired.  Like I HAVE to take a nap in the afternoon in order to even be able to make it to my 7pm bedtime.  Next, I was super queasy.  Starting around noon each day, my stomach just rejected the sight, taste, and smell of the majority of foods.  Finally, I had several freak out moments where I thought I might be losing the baby.  At my 7 week ultrasound, they found a small tear in the placenta, which can either get better or get worse.  I experienced some bleeding and anyone that has had this experience knows that the sight of blood during early pregnancy is absolutely terrifying.  Luckily, at this point in the pregnancy I am feeling much more energized, the queasiness has subsided, and my 11 week ultrasounds revealed that the tear had healed (hence my comfort in beginning to put our good news out there)!

@ 7 weeks

@ 11 weeks

@ 11 weeks

..And Summer is Almost Over

It's been several months since my last post (I have good reason, see next post!), so I'm going to do a quick version of our summer.

We celebrated a friend's marriage and got a cute picture of the extended Pretekin family in the process!



We went to my grandparents' cottage in Michigan again and celebrated my grandparents' 65th wedding annivesary.  Graham had a great time!

 

 

We also took a few other field trips!  We went to Tiny Town, out to lunch, the rec center in Evergreen, the pet shelter, and G saw his first movie in the theater!

 

 



Summer is Around the Corner!

After a snowy April and even some snow in May, it seems that we have finally settled into late Spring/early Summer weather!  And no one is happier to get outside than G!

Catchin' Up!

Wow!  Once again, there has been some definite blog neglect.  Here's what we have been up to for the past month and a half:

We celebrated Grandma's birthday with a trip to the mall, ride on the carousel (with Abey), and some ice cream:


We finished up our first session of gymnastics and started up another session:

We had some crazy weather...many inches of snow during April and May, so we kept our boots and other warm clothes:

We had some fun visiting the library:

And we just plain had fun:

Read to Me!

Graham loves to read.  He asks almost daily to go to the "liberry" to "get new books, Mama!"  We typically go once a week.  Here is a book we recently picked up.  We have read this book to him pretty daily for the past week.  Here he is "reading" the book to me!