The big excitement around these parts is that the child pictured above (who very intentionally posed like that when she saw me take out the camera) is now using the potty like a big girl!! We’re on Day 4 of wearing underwear with 1 (yes, one) accident! Hip hip hooray!!
We’ve been dancing around potty training for a while and then we put it on hold when Sam was born and for a few months after. Finally Clare was ready. I think she’s actually been ready for about a month now but with traveling, illness and other things going on things just haven’t been right. But suddenly something clicked and Clare started saying that she wanted to wear underwear. She takes herself to the bathroom, sets up the potty seat and step stool, flushes and pulls her pants back on all by herself! She’s really into “by myself” self care skills, so it doesn’t surprise me that she enjoys the independence of using the bathroom by herself. We also introduced some m&m bribery to the mix and I think that sped up our success.
Other fun developments around these parts include Sam is now blowing raspberries! I thought Clare was a champion raspberry blower but Sam might be giving her a run for her money since I don’t remember Clare starting quite this young. I do, however, remember a car trip where Clare literally blew raspberries for 25 straight minutes. Sam, you better start practicing now if you want to beat that record.
The picture above makes me laugh because I was trying to get some candid “lego play” shots of Sam and Clare. Clare has started posing for the camera and she immediately dropped her legos, put her arm around Sam and instructed me to take their picture like that. The result turned out pretty cute.
Other fun developments around these parts include Sam is now blowing raspberries! I thought Clare was a champion raspberry blower but Sam might be giving her a run for her money since I don’t remember Clare starting quite this young. I do, however, remember a car trip where Clare literally blew raspberries for 25 straight minutes. Sam, you better start practicing now if you want to beat that record. 
The picture above makes me laugh because I was trying to get some candid “lego play” shots of Sam and Clare. Clare has started posing for the camera and she immediately dropped her legos, put her arm around Sam and instructed me to take their picture like that. The result turned out pretty cute.