Gamera the Brave

So, Lane introduce Max to a lovely movie this weekend.

Gamera the Brave



Seriously. It isn't like I don't suffer enough having to watch "Max and Ruby" and "Dora the Explorer". Now, I get to watch a Japanese monster movie that is aimed at children. It has its cute moments, cause Gamera is a tiny turtle called "Toto" to start with. Then it just becomes very typical Godzilla like and starts to annoy me.

Max is OBSESSED! I think Lane is just retaliating because I got Max to enjoy Beauty and the Beast. Oh well, I guess there are worse things in life. But this flying turtle certainly is not my favorite thing right now.

Have loved you...

...every minute of the past 3 years. Will love you even more tomorrow. Happy Birthday sweet baby boy.

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!