Sluggish...

This weekend we cracked open a potty training book.  It supposedly helps you potty train according to your child's disposition, so before the nitty gritty, you take a quiz to help you determine what type of personality your child has and therefore, the best way to move forward.  Piglet is apparently sensory-oriented.  We're still figuring out what the heck that means to the adventure we're about to embark on.

Truth be told, Piglet has been ready for some time...some months actually.  He started out telling us once he'd pooped and then he'd tell us before he pooped and now he tells us all that and also that he wants to go "up" and be changed.  The kid is READY.  

Who isn't ready?

MOI.  

I bought the potty *months* ago but it's been sitting unopened in the garage.  I knew the time was coming...I just couldn't pull the trigger.

It isn't that I love changing diapers, but come on - they are soooo convenient!  And potty training is actually kind of a hideous phase.  And I am exhausted just thinking about it.  AND, I cannot imagine being out and about with all three kids...wait.  Let's just pause and have a good laugh over the likelihood of THAT happening anytime soon.  Ok. So anyway, I cannot imagine being out and Piglet saying he needs to use the potty and WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!  By the time I find a restroom, unload and put the twins into the snap n go and get inside with all three of them, Piglet is sure to have had an accident by then.  

Certain. Potty. Fail.  

But -- I don't want to be the one to hold back my child.  I'm not going to push him to do this, but I'm certainly going to encourage it.  Sit with him, cheer him on, be ready with a new choo choo or gumdrop as a prize.  I'm planning to start after Mr. K and I get back from our upcoming Babymoon.  

I would say wish me luck, but that would be too cliche.  

Instead, I say, wish us POOP! And PEE!  

And not on the floor!!!!!!  

Months Six and Seven Updates...a little late :)

Month Six

Stats: 27 inches - 50% for height, 18.5lbs - 60% for weight, 50% for head circumference.  

Piglet LOVES

• rolling all around the nursery
• taking baths
• being outside 
• touching any and all interesting (or uninteresting) surfaces and fabrics
• being held
• playing with blocks
• cuddling
• Sandra Boynton books 
• pureed apples
• his highchair
• the jumperoo
• the mirror
• you making funny faces at him
• making smacking noises with his mouth, especially when he sees you eating something
• bubbles

Piglet is OVER

• the changing table
• lying still for a diaper change
• taking off / putting on clothes that go over his head
• the booger bulb 
• the bouncy seat
• the BOB
• anyone who is not mommy after 5:00 p.m.
• being low to the ground e.g. the Bumbo

Month Seven

Stats: 19.2lbs and we assume the rest are roughly the same!

Piglet LOVES

• long morning naps 
• sleeping in your arms 
• when you sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
• snoring
• being tickled on his belly
• laughing with other people
• watching the dog run around
• avocados
• Gymboree class (as long there's that long morning nap beforehand)
• other babies
• putting his head on your shoulder when someone new says hello
• smiling back at you
• when you click your tongue
• stacking cups
• smacking away at keyboards
• a sip of anything you're drinking
• giving kisses
• throwing things on the floor
• YouTube

Piglet is OVER

• restaurants - mom and dad are learning to eat very quickly or order take out!
• having lotion put on his face
• putting on pajamas at night 
• you leaving the room without him
• bottles (yes, still...)
• sounds made by the blender, vacuum, and Cuisinart
• sweet potatoes
• large stuffed animals that sound like mommy pretending to be Yogi bear
• mommy using her laptop without his "help"
• teething
• the binky

Happy Seven Month Birthday Piglet

Today at 10:01 a.m. marks exactly seven months since Piglet entered the world.  How time flies. It's all going so quickly - too quickly for my taste.  Here's proof.  This was my and dh's conversation when he came home from business travel last week.

DH: He's getting bigger.  It's like when we got the dog and I'd come home after a week away and she changed from a puppy to a dog.  Piglet is growing like that. Next week I'll come home and he'll be talking in full sentences. 

Me: (sobbing) No.  I don't believe it.  He can't be growing.  I need him to stay a baby forever!

DH: Babe - That's impossible!  Kahuna Matata - it's the circle of life!  

Me: Dude, that's NOT how it goes!

DH: (Happily singing "Kahuna Matata" while brushing teeth.)

(For the record, dh always gets that all wrong no matter how many times I tell him Kahuna Matata isn't even the right phrase much less meaning!)

Piglet, please stop growing or at least stop growing so quickly because it is making mommy very sad!  Then again, please do grow because you have a closet full of fall clothes I cannot wait to put you in!  :) Happy Seven Months, kiddo. We love you.