First communion

We are Episcopalian. Children take their first communion when they ask and when the parents feel they are ready. So... Today Cullen and I went to church. We had not been there in almost two months. He was such a good boy the whole time! He played well in the playroom and even whispered when he joined me in the church! He walked up to the alter, not ran! He held his hands in prayer and said, "I want a bite!" I'm sure if father Craig heard that or just knew how much Cullen had matured since our last visit, but when father Craig got to us he offered him communion and Cullen ate it! He said, that's so shummy!" That's my boy! 

Funder

It has been raining so much lately and he has been interested in listening to the thunder aka "funder". He says funder gets on his head, I tried explaining that rain gets on his head and thunder is just a sound. Then he said funder gets in his ear! I guess he's right about that! Lol so tonight he runs in the room with both hands up in a stop signs and says "wait wait, hear funder!" 

Potty training part 3

Cullen had been staying dry most of the time and recently started asking us to go teetee. He is staying dry all day at school! I think they put a pull on during nap but said he has been dry! He still makes poo in his drawers and when we ask him about where its supposed to go he always says poopoo on potty! We can tell when he needs to poo but he runs away and refuses to sit and try. Making progress! 

Favorite shows

Cullen's favorite shows right now are 

Little Einsteins

Mickey Mouse clubhouse

Wall-e

Robots 

Open season

Dora

Toy story

 

TV

I'm thinking Cullen may watch too much TV. We've been on vacation for 6 days now and each day he watched about 3-4 hours worth. Either in the car or at night before bed. Each night he did not go to sleep until after 10 or 11! Us mommies were very tired and aggravated about that!  He has also been very moody and telling us no lately. I was thinking about taking away all TV, but I really do think he learns some good things from some shows. Maybe we should just take it away before bed. When we travel, it keeps him awake, which we want to do sometimes. But we went to the beach the last two days and he asked to watch TV! I think he's addicted and I don't want this addiction to turn into another electronic addiction! 

Potty training part 2

We went on a day road trip yesterday so potty training wasn't the best but he did use the potty at almost every place we went! We went to target and bought him 14 pairs of new underwear and he got to pick them out! We made a big deal about them! 

Today... Another story! He went through 4 underwear between 11-4! And each time he wet himself he still had more tee tee to put in the potty! It's hard to get mad when he gets excited he is using the potty! 

We also went through storage today and found all the 3-4t clothes passed on to us! While going through them, we found at least 20 more pair of underwear! I think he is set on briefs! 

He filled up his sticker chart so we have started a new reward! Money!!!! He loves to put money in his bank! Grams gave him a new clear train bank so he can see the money he puts in! I guess we are going to have to get a roll of coins from the bank to pay him! Whatever works! Lol

Potty training!

Potty training at home has been going great! He goes almost every time we take  him! Today, after his nap, he said he wanted to go but when we got there, he cried! He wanted to be held for 30 min with no pull up on! So after that spell, I put big boy drawers on him and no shirt! I rolled up the rugs and started vacuuming. He came to play and then tee-teed on the floor! He yelled he needed to change. I made him clean up the tee tee. He was almost excited about that, so not sure if that was the best idea! Lol! I told him no TV since he had accident, he said, "I tee tee on potty!" And he did! He had a lot more pee in him and unloaded on the potty so he was rewarded with the TV! Say a prayer this only lasts a few days!