A few months ago we got Elijah a little potty. At first he refused to sit on it unless he was wearing his diaper. After a while he progressed to sitting on it with no diaper on. Now I think that he thinks it's just another chair to sit on. He likes to sit on the potty chair and read books (He has 2 favorite potty time books: Dr Seuss' ABC book and Hop on Pop....why these are potty books, we don't know). We keep thinking that if he sits long enough he'll eventually accidentally go, right? But no, it's happened multiple times where he'll sit for 15 minutes on the potty reading books and then we'll put a diaper on him and within 5 minutes he's wet his diaper. I've also caught him about to go and asked if he wants to go sit on the potty and he adamantly refuses...like he's scared to go on the potty. Anyways, I don't think he's ready to potty train by any means (he's not even 2 yet!) but he doesn't mind spending some time on the potty reading books and it's a time for him to sit quietly and for me to do the same...and that in itself is precious.
Elijah is learning how to catch a ball with Daddy
One of his favorite stuffed animals, named Sheep (how clever, eh?). Sheep can do stunts, dance, jump on the big ball, read books, ride on the bike, and he gets LOTS of hugs and kisses from Elijah...especially when he falls down from all his stunt work.
Funny story from a few nights ago: Elijah very very rarely wakes up in the middle of the night, and when he does we just ignore him and he goes back to sleep within a few minutes. But a few nights ago we could hear him at 2am whining and crying in his bed. After about 20 minutes we went in to see if he was cold or sick or what was wrong, but he was dead asleep just whining. Tucked him in again and told him to shhh. No kidding, this went on for another hour off and on. Eventually Bruce went in there and turned on the light to wake him up fully and ask if he needed something and try to figure out why he was whining. Elijah started full out crying and was so upset to be woken up (Hey, so were we!) After than he fell asleep again and was quiet. The next morning we were laying in the bed reading books, and I asked him if he remembered crying in his bed last night. He said "Yes" in this little voice and I asked him what happened. Then in the cutest little pitiful 'how-could-you' voice he said "Daddy turned on the light" as the reason for his crying last night. WHAAAAT?! What about the hour and a half before that?! We still don't know what was wrong...maybe a bad dream. But now we know what to do next time!
At the request of some of you...Morgan, 34 weeks preggo.
