Potty Training break through

June 30-July 5, 2008

On Monday the miracle that we've been waiting for with Isaac finally happened--he decided on his own that he wanted to go pee pee and poo poo in the potty. I was hiking with the boys along the creek by Aunt Julie's house when Isaac announced that he wanted to go pee pee in the water like Raul (the main character in a book we've been reading him about potty training). He then said that he wanted to go use the bathroom at the Phoenix zoo. I told him that that would be pretty complicated because we were far away from the zoo, so he said that he would settle for grandma's toilet. I tried not to get my hopes up, because in Houston he'd used the potty before and then went right back to his old ways, but this time he's really stuck with it. He went poo and pee in the toilet that day and he's kept it up all week. He's peed in his pants a few times by accident but at least all of the poo has made it to the toilet. Most miraculous of all--he's even using toilets in other places. He used to be terrified of toilets at church, the park, stores, etc, but now he actually wants to go try them out and he thinks that urinals are an amazing invention. To reward him we've let him go on a Dora video renting binge at the local movie store and he's also gotten some freebie chocolate out of the deal. We also went to Alco and picked out some spiderman underwear that he was pretty pumped about.
Levi is interested in watching Isaac go potty, but he still prefers peeing in the bathtub to the toilet. Oh well, at least its a start.
WATER TURN! There was a water turn this week and the boys were in heaven. Levi started out in his irrigation boots and then ended up completely buck naked and so did Isaac. We got some great camera footage of them splashing around in the water.
We went on a couple of nice hikes along the river in Greer this week. That place is gorgeous. The boys get a kick out of running on the trails but Levi always gets low on batteries at the end and we have to drag him along.
On Friday we headed up to Showlow to help my mom find a digital camera and then we went to Snowflake to celebrate Jenny's birthday. We hung out for a while at the house and then went to a tennis court park. The boys went crazy running all over the tennis court and trying to swing a couple of old rackets around. Levi loved it when James threw the tennis ball up really high.
Saturday we went bowling and Isaac and Levi were very excited by the novelty of it all. Levi kept running around trying to pick up all of the bowling balls and dive down the lanes. We got a lane with bumpers so the kids could play and Isaac actually got to the point where he could roll the ball down the lane by himself and he'd jump for joy when he knocked down the pins.
Levi is still obessed with Dave and the Giant Pickle and after his naps he wakes up wanting to see the "pickle."