Birthday Boy!

We celebrated Max's birthday today! He won't be three till Monday, but Lane will be out of town and the celebration wouldn't be same without daddy. Here are some pictures of our day with the little birthday boy! Make sure to be appropriately awed by the homemade Star Wars X-Wing cake. Max was. He said it was "the best cake ever". Happy Birthday to our wonderful son!

Lost Cause

In the interest of raising a non-violent, non-aggressive, slightly less crazy son, we had removed a lot of Max's "weapons". He already, at the ripe old age of 2.99, has a plethora of foam swords, foam blasters, light sabers, nerf guns, etc. Max has a little trouble being aggressive, so we decided limiting that type of play might be a good thing. We took his "weapons" and put them downstairs in the basement to be played with infrequently.

The result:
My son is still 100% boy and has now turned all of my kitchen utensils into his weapons. My spatula became the "flip flopper" and is now responsible for decimating scores of storm troopers. My big spoon became the "spooner" and has blasted an entire army of dragon guys.

I'm thinking his weapons aren't the problem.

100%

...at least for today! We had a great day and Max did a wonderful job doing his business in the potty! We are VERY excited here in the Nelson household tonight!

I know tomorrow he could totally go back to nothing but accidents, but for today, Max is the king of the potty!

Here he is a video of him getting his energy out before bed!

63%

Well, over the course of the last week Max has managed to potty in the toilet 63% of the time. It isn't the most impressive grade. It is a D. Not exactly the grade you want your child to have.

Max isn't making it easy (he cries almost every time he sits on the potty) and he has a lot to say about the process:

1)After being put in a pull-up to go run some errands, Max declared with a huge smile, "I pee and the diaper catches it!"
2)"I don't want to make pee pee in the potty, I'm all done" Then he gets up and pees on the floor within minutes.
3)While dancing the potty dance, "Nope, I don't need to pee pee". Then he proceeds to pee on the floor.
4)After pooping the most horrific poop ever "What's that on your foot? You have yucky poopie on your foot Mommy". He said that with a smile.
5)"I don't want to pee pee in the potty, I want to go pee pee on the floor".

Those sound like the words of a D Student. Uncooperative, a little lazy, and some what sarcastic. Hopefully, we will see more improvement over the next week. I'm pretty sure that this process will eventually be over (hey, a month ago Max was using the potty 0%, so that's a huge improvement). But for now I try not to think about the future, I just take it one accident at a time and thank God daily that we don't have carpet in our house!

Potty Training...

Stinks. It is not going well. I will spare you all the gory details, believe me, you really don't want to know. I wish I didn't have to know.

We haven't given up though. I feel like at this point we can't give up. Eventually he'll get it. Right?

Lord, I hope so.

Day 2 Confidence is Building

Well, Day 2 was a minor success. It started a little worrisome because he woke up and immediately peed his bed but the day only improved from there. Max has actually requested several times to go to the potty and has even made it there on time once. We had accidents and number 2's are going to take a lot longer than 3 days to get under control, but we're doing it.
Max loves his big boys underwear and requests to change them several times a day just because he wants to first wear The Hulk, then he is in a Wolverine mood, and then he feels like being pals with Nemo. I give in, because frankly, it is pretty cute!
Day 3 has begun and we started with dry sheets which was exciting. Of course, we started the day at 5:45am, not the greatest time to wake up. It is going as well as it could be expected and while I know we have a LOT of work left, I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.