more success

We are having more success with the potty here at the Giles' residence. Drew has now not only gone #1, but has successfully gone #2 as well. Unfortunately, Drew will only go for Doug, he for some reason won't go for me. It must be that he Doug knows how to teach him and I don't! Hopefully that will change since Doug isn't around during the day! I'll keep trying though!

Ok, so my friend Kristan put this on her blog, and it is the absolute truth. The weather man said that it was 15* this morning, but with the wind chill it was almost -20. This is seriously what it feels like!

excitement

Something great happened last night...I mean really fantastic, and I missed it because I was in class. Dum, da da dum, Drew peed on the toilet! Doug sat him on the toilet last night for try numero uno, and of course, nothing happened. So Doug decided Drew needed a little demonstration and showed him how it was done. So after a nice warm bath and playing with his foam letters, he got to sit on the potty for try number two. Doug said that this is what he heard next, "Daddy, I go poop! I go poop daddy!" Doug said that he looked in the toilet and saw no poop, but pee! So Doug did a happy dance and told Drew what a great job he did, and Drew gave himself a nice big hand! While in class my phone rang, so when I had a break I listened to the message left and it was Drew. "I go potty on the toiwet mommy!" I was so happy, and sad, all at the same time. Sad that I missed his great achievement, but happy that we are possibly getting to that big milestone I've been dying to get to...no diapers!

movie date with mom

I took Drew to see the new Veggie Tales movie, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, and he loved it. He sat there and watched it and then at the end he was dancing to the music! He also enjoyed the fact that his friends Ella and Mailee were there as well. It was fun for me to have this little date with Drew. He and I seem to run errands lately and this was perfect for us, especially for him since he loves movies!

thank you

I have to say a big thank you to Erica. She is the one who gave my blog the new header! I don't want anyone giving me the credit for it since I have no idea how to do it! I've asked her to come to my house some time and teach me how to really use my Photoshop, and lucky for me, she agreed! So THANK YOU Erica for your help, you are great!

story and song time

We went over to the Waukee Library today. On Thursday mornings they have a song and reading time for young children. The girl who was in charge this morning was so cute. She got the kids to sing do the actions to the songs, and to really listen to the stories she was telling. I think it's so great for these kids to learn to sing and interact with others, plus to sit and listen to an entire story. We'll definitely be there next week.

Drew and Owen

This is Drew and his cute friend Owen! Last night we were invited for pizza and football at the Wilde's house! Drew and Owen are playing in Owen's "Cars" tent! This is them looking out the window of it! Those two boys played so well together, we adults couldn't stop laughing at them! Thanks for the fun you guys!

What a week!

What a week! It's been so crazy that I haven't had the chance to blog. Doug and I made it home safely from Utah. We left Tuesday morning at about 10:30 am and got to Iowa Wednesday morning at about 5 am. Of course we did make a stop up in Park City at the outlets! Drew didn't drive back with us...there wasn't any way he would fit in the car after we packed it up...so he got to fly home with his Grandpa Quinn (thanks again dad for doing that)!

We had such a great time in Utah and Idaho with family. Christmas was great and Drew now has WAY too many toys! I think we'll be going through them all and boxing up some! Drew did get to go sledding for the first time in Utah and absolutely loved it! In fact, every time he would sled down the hill he kept saying, "Again, again!" He wasn't very happy when we told him just one more time and then it's back to a warm house!

Up in Idaho, Drew got to help his Grandma Giles make gingerbread cookies, but he had more fun eating the dough then the cookies I think! And he also learned to kick the snow off of the really talll bushes at my parents church!

But the most fun thing now, he is talking in full sentences! And he jabbers all of the time! He sings the ABC's thanks to Leap Frogs magnetic abc set! And his favorite song that he's been singing is Santa Clause is Coming to Town! You'd have to hear it! I'll try and get video of it sometime! Well I hope you all enjoy your weekend, I know we will!