We’ve tried potty training a few times in the past year. Twice to be exact, before this round.  They were disasters. He wasn’t ready, at all. I’m not the type of parent to force things. So we just agreed to try again later.

This round of potty training we started a little over a month ago maybe… We have had a little froggy toilet for about a year. We brought it out in the living room (where we spend almost all of our time) & just sat it there. He became very intrigued & would sit on it fully clothed. That eventually led to me letting him run around naked from the waist down & encouraging him (very often) to use the potty to do his biz. He picked up on it this time, this time he was readier than the previous attempts.  He had a few accidents, peeing on the couch, on the floor, on the dog, but overall I was impressed. I rewarded him with M&M’s & fruit snacks the first two days he would successfully use the potty. After that we stopped the rewards & he never even noticed.

 

We had about a week of him not wanting to go number two on the potty though, he’d wait & wait for a diaper to be put on.  Finally he started doing that on his potty too!

 

We still weren’t able to clothe him or put underwear on him with success though. He would do his biz if he had something on his bottom half to catch it. So that really made it kinda tough. He’s “potty trained” only at home. I guess that’s a start.

 

Then fast forward to today. I had the same talk with him I’ve had every morning this week after I take his morning diaper off. I pull his jammie pants back up & tell him he HAS to tell me before he goes potty so we can take his pants down. He hasn’t listened to that the past three days. Today he’s listening. He’s asked for help to pee twice & just a few minutes ago he pulled his own pants down & went on his own, then pulled them back up & went back to playing. Hopefully after a few days of this we will be able to put underwear on him, & eventually venture out in public sans a diaper.

 

It wasn’t an immediate process for us like it is for some families. This is just one of those things where I think your kid really has to go at his own pace, whatever that may be, & it has to be OK.

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I’ve been trying to get Milo on video singing his abc’s for like 2 months now. He’s obsessed with the phone though (what i take videos with) so it never works out. Sometimes I can try & hide it & take video of him but we usually only get half way through the alphabet before he realizes what I’m doing & goes bananas for the phone.  The only reason I want to get him on video for that is because when he gets to L,M,N,O,P it is straight up monster growling sounds that come out of him for some reason & it’s hilarious.

 

But, I figured I’d give a little Milostone update & this video is part of it, which I was only able to shoot that much because I was behind him & he didn’t know I was filming him!

 

He’s actually known how to identify his ABC’s for a little while. I have NO CLUE how he picked that up so easily but he did. He can do the same with numbers one-ten. Colors? FORGETABOUTIT. Like he knows green, 80% of the time & that’s it.  He can identify a few shapes but it’s extremely hard to understand him saying “triangle” so I’m the only one that actually knows what he is saying. Goes without saying that I’m very proud of him, obviously that’s why I’m sharing this, & this is the place where I document things like this happening.

 

One thing other than general learning that I’m proud of is that he’s been really well behaved when we’ve needed him to be in public lately. We’ve had him at two weddings in the past three weeks & we received a handful of compliments at each wedding about how good & well behaved he was. That makes me really happy. Especially at the wedding last saturday because he was solely up to his Dad ALL DAY saturday. I wasn’t there to help keep him on track & in line what so ever & he did an excellent job with his Dad & Gramma Linny. Also- side-note: Saturday night was the first time I’ve ever sent Milo home with someone else & had them put him to bed for me. He left the wedding with my Mom around 9:30 & she brought him home & put him to bed for us. I was grateful because we got to enjoy the rest of the night & she didn’t mind at all, neither did Milo apparently. I’m a very attached parent, so that was a pretty big deal for me. Milo has never spent the night anywhere, aside from when he was a few months old when we went to LA for the weekend. That was the only time we’ve not put him to bed really.

 
I think we are getting closer  to a point where potty training is a realistic idea. He’s extremely interested in what happens on the toilet. He follows us, looks in the toilet, grabs toilet paper for us, & this is really gross but when the dog goes outside he is just as interested in the dog going to the bathroom which is something completely new. So maybe in a week or two we will try it again & see how it goes. No pressure on him of course but man oh man it will be amazing to not change & buy diapers anymore.

 

So there’s a little update on Milo, he is 27 months today.

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Milo had his first hair cut about 6 months ago. Since I’m a horrible blogger I never posted about it. It was cute, & he looked like SUCH a big boy once his hair was shorter.

 

Fast forward to yesterday. His hair was hanging in his eyes & he all of a sudden has taken to wiping his hands in his hair when he eats. He must have thought it was a napkin? So I cut it.

 

Yeah, Me.

 

It instantly brought me back to my child hood.  My Mother thought she was too an at home beautician. I was on the receiving end of many botched bang trims AND home perms. Oh lord…. WHY? Why, did our Moms always want to perm our hair? I can think of a handful of times sitting in the kitchen forEVER getting my hair rolled into the million rods it took & cringing when that cold solution ran down my neck & back, it smelled of rotten egg farts.  I hated having to go to school the next day with a fro that wreaked of egg farts. So fun!

 

So compared to my at home salon treatments as a child, Milo is clearly winning.

 

 

 

Not wonderful. But, certainly not horrible either. I only almost cut his little baby ear off once!

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And that means that he’s crazy busy, & on the go go go.  So that means that this Mama is on the go go go as well.  He’s just so busy. Like constantly moving, making messes every waking hour, & also being crazy cute.  The things he’s starting to say & how he acts constantly amuse Mercer & I.  I think he’s a fairly average 2 year old. But he’s our first one, so he’s always amazing us.

 

 

I just took this picture yesterday, & it’s one of my new faves. He’s just gorgeous to me. Like, I never ever ever tire of his adorableness. This sums up a lot of our days. I slather him with 2 different sunscreens (paranoid of the sun & it’s magical burning powers), sometimes we share a Popsicle, & then we play with the whale pool, water tables, bikes, & his hot pink hand me down car that he is crazy in love with.

 

He’s been a little sick the past few days. Feels absolutely fine (i think) but has been pooping his brains out. Like crazy diaper explosions.  After a bland diet the pooplosions seem to be tapering off.

 

 

Earlier in the week I was able to take Milo on a date.  We of course went to our favorite sushi restaurant.  We ended up sitting at the sushi bar for the first time, I was hesitant but it turned out great.  While waiting for our order we discussed all the different colors & sea food that was in front of us in the refrigerated case, the sushi chefs joked with him. Over all it was perfect.  I even let him have his first marble soda, he wasn’t impressed by it.  Marble Soda I drank religiously through out my pregnancy.  I was too paranoid to ever have a glass of wine, so marble soda was my elixir! Anyway, he sat at the sushi bar like a pro, ate his two bowls of miso soup, & a piece of my sushi roll. I love sharing experiences like this with him. If & when I go back to work I think it’s days like that I will really miss.

 

 

The other night, I hopped out of my evening bath & came out to find these two passed out on the couch. This just NEVER happens. I’m serious. It hasn’t happened since Milo was under a year old. He’s very used to his sleep routine & will usually only ever fall asleep in his bed or in the car seat. It was a special little moment. It was also the very beginning of the little bug he’s had this week so that might of had something to do with it. Such a special little moment, but really he had diarrhea in his diaper right then. Ha, sick.

 

 

How cute are they? So Cute! We like to hang out on the hammock in the summer evenings. It’s so relaxing.

 

 

Right after the crazy bridal shower was over Milo wanted to hop in the whale pool. He did. Cute widdle butt crack.

 

Other cool stuff:

He’s gotten to be really good at identifying the letters of the alphabet (only uppercase right now though.) He has about a 97% success rate at it right now.

 

He can count to ten. I feel like he could go higher I just haven’t taught him higher. He can also identify those numbers.  I will start teaching him to 20 from now on. He’s awesome, I taught him that his favorite morning shows are on channel 6 in the morning so he comes out to the couch when he wakes up & turns on the tv & turns it to channel 6, & sometimes 66, or 666.

 

He still has trouble with colors.  He can’t seem to get those down so we need to focus  a little bit more on those right now I think.

 

He likes having tasks. His “job” is to let the dog in/out when he needs it. He loves that job.

 

He’s very sweet. (when he wants to be) Last night it was time for bed & he stopped, took out his paci, bent down & kissed Rocky good night, & Rocky was nice enough to oblige.

 

Obsessed with flip flops. He will wear nothing on his feet aside from “fip fops”. Kinda cute, kinda annoying. He’s almost outgrown his Toms & worn them just a handful of times. We also have two weddings next month, I’ll die if he shows up in fip fops.

 

He still sleeps like a champ. We get a slight bedtime protest from him about once a week. He’s also napped every day this week so that’s been nice.

 

Overall, he’s awesome. He’s cute. I Love him more than my heart can handle every day.

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