Morgan Our Big Girl

Well we decided to just "go for it" this week. we moved Morgan into her toddler bed. She is doing great so far; we are on day 3. We feel so lucky to have 2 kids that stay in their beds! I have heard some real nightmare stories of how some parents try to keep their kids in their rooms. She seems to like it and wakes up really happy in the morning. Merritt thinks it is pretty cool too. When I came home last night from work, both kids were playing in the bed, laughing and rolling around. Merritt was picking Morgan up under her armpits and carrying her into the bed. She'd giggle and fall down only to get up again and ask him for more. In headline news (which I will try to get Mark to write about in more detail) Morgan pooped and peed on the toilet yesterday. She told Mark and then led him to the toilet. I am considering it a fluke...something she thinks is "the in thing to do" since she's been watching big brother. It was exciting anyway!

Morgan

He Loves to Sing

Merritt really loves to sing and can actually remember most of the words to his favorite songs. A lot of the time he slurs words together because it is more a sound to him than 2 separate words. This results in some pretty funny lyrics on his part. One of the many memories that I love about my childhood is that my mom always sang to me at night and one of my favorites was a Scottish Folk Song. I sing it to Merritt often. Here are the words below if you don't know it. What I love, is that when Merritt wants to hear it he asks for and sings "Bunnies by the Ocean." I wonder what the mental picture he gets looks like!

My Bonnie lies over the ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me

REFRAIN:
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Bonnie to me

Last night as I lay on my pillow
Last night as I lay on my bed
Last night as I lay on my pillow
I dreamt that my Bonnie was dead

REFRAIN

Oh blow the winds o'er the ocean
And blow the winds o'er the sea
Oh blow the winds o'er the ocean
And bring back my Bonnie to me

REFRAIN

The winds have blown over the ocean
The winds have blown over the sea
The winds have blown over the ocean
And brought back my Bonnie to me

REFRAIN

Potty Day #3

Today has been a fantastic potty training day-dare I say..."I think we are potty trained." We had a dry night last night. We did wake him at midnight to take him to the bathroom, but the sheets were dry and we have not had any accidents yet today. We will keep our fingers crossed and the 409 ready! Here are the photos I promised yesterday. Sorry that I just got to them, but the kids did not nap yesterday...argh!


These are photos of Merritt's first "poopy party." He has since had a few of them.


Morgan Showing off her sparkle jelly shoes.
I think you can kind of see the curls. Also, note the shoe selection.
Another one of Morgan's shoe selections and by the looks of it a sour apple!

Day #2

We had a great day yesterday. Only 1 urine accident in the morning! I think the whole thing started to "click" for Merritt in the afternoon. He would be playing and all of a sudden say different variations of "quick run to the potty" or "I have to go potty." He even pooped in the potty in the afternoon. We had a "poopy party" for him with doughnuts and kazoos. We took some photos, but I think I left the camera in their bedroom last night. I will post them later this morning.

Morgan thinks this has been great! doughnuts...juice boxes (we don't normally give them juice), new toys... She is starting to show herself to be every bit GIRLY! She has started going to the shoe bin and picking out what she will wear...SEVERAL times a day. Last night after bath time Mark was trying to get her dressed, but she refused to wear her sleeper. She wanted to wear her onesie with he glitter jelly shoes. I will also post some photos of that. Also, get a load of those curls...

A Non-Potty Blog Entry

Since post of you don't come to the blog to hear about Merritt's bathroom experiences, but rather see photos, I thought I would add a couple. Merritt's buddy Laine came over the other day because her mom and dad were at the hospital after delivering their second child. This was pretty cool for Merritt because he got to stay up until almost 9pm watching Curious George with Laine. The second photo is of Merritt hard at work after one of our little snows.

Reflections on Potty Training Day 1

Well...Merritt, Morgan, Dorothy and myself made it through day #1! As I have been saying over and over to Merritt "I am so proud of you!" I could not even imagine the amount of energy it take to encourage, remind and praise on a regular basis. Mark was working, so Dorothy graciously agreed to come help with Morgan so that I could focus a little better on Merritt. Merritt did great, he had a couple urine accidents and a couple #2 accidents, but in the end he pee'd in the toilet more often than he didn't and we got one #2 in the toilet! He wet the bed once last night, but when I woke him up at 5am to go potty, he was clean and dry...and so was the bed. Hopefully when he wakes up at 7, it will still be dry. If you read this today, please keep us in your prayers. Mark will be home the next two days to help and we would like to try and make this as fun an experience as possible (for everyone).