More about potty training....and some about babies and babies growing up

After I wrote my last blog, the day went downhill. Mason kept going into either his room or ours to take his diaper off and then go potty. I couldn't get him to the bathroom. It was so very frustrating. So yesterday I kept the doors closed to those two rooms during the day and he went straight to the bathroom! We had many successful potty trips yesterday and I was even able to keep putting the same diaper on because he wasn't even going in it!!! I was so excited. So, now we shall see what today has in store for us!

Another thing that has changed around here with Mason is the baby gates. We used to have a baby gate up to the bathroom and kitchen. We had one up for the bathroom because we have old doors that while they shut, don't "latch", so Mason could just push it open and would get into everything. We also had one up to the kitchen. The basement stairs are in there and so is the dog's food and water. It was easier to just keep him out of there than to always worry about him going down the stairs.
About a month ago Mason figured out that he could climb the gate if he put a toy up to it to use as a step. Great. The first time it happened, I was in another room with Morgan and Mike was downstairs. Mike heard Mason say," Daddy!", right there in the basement with him. So we got him to stop and thought we were good. Fast forward to this week. Mike has been gone for about week and Mason is constantly going over the gate again! This coupled with his new interest in the potty I decided to take the gates down. So far, so good. While I have to holler for him to stay up here, he has not ventured past the first step to the basement. He does like to play in the animal's water, I caught him driving a monster truck in it the other day, but for the most part the whole house freedom is going a lot better than I had imagined. He's growing up so fast and I can't believe everything that is changing so fast with him.

And now Morgan. He is three months old today and doing great. He is actually on his floor gym right now "talking" to the hanging animals. He sleeps all night, has since he was about 6-7 weeks old, and is in general a very happy baby. He is a little chunk. I got on the scale here at home with him the other day and it said 15.2 pounds!!! He smiles all the time, and I am working on getting that first little giggle out of him. Morgan moved from our room into his crib the night of Father's Day. At 15 pounds he is right at the weight limit for the bassinet part of the pack n play, so the move was necessary. I was VERY nervous having him that far, especially because our movement monitor has gone off once, but so far it has been good. So now both boys are in their beds and I have the bed to myself (well until Mike gets home). I told Mike that when he gets home there will be no kids in our room and he seemed pretty happy about that. You see, Mason has slept with us from just about day one. He slept in his crib until he when he started teething, I would bring him in with us for a night or two because he needed comforting at night. Then Mike left for a week or two for training and I let him sleep with me the whole time. Ever since then he was with us. So now it is huge that they are BOTH in their room and sleeping in their own beds ALL NIGHT LONG!!!!

That's all for now, I will try to update more often as this seems fairly long....