FINALLY!

At one week shy of 16 months...

Wonderful communication!

Logan can nod! Technically he can rock his body forwards and backwards, but we know that's a nod and it means yes. Logan, do you want to eat? (rocks) Do you want a banana? (shakes his head no) Do you want yogurt? (rocks) It's fantastic! We're that much closer to true communication with the little guy.

She's a girl.

On our way to Miss Shahnaz's this morning I was asking Brody if he was excited to see his friends after being away for a long weekend. He said yes and then wanted me to name them. I started with Richa, a sweet two year old who's been Brody's best buddy since starting with Shahnaz. He said no, shes' not his friend. So then I went to Brady, who completes their pack of three, the quiet kids who stick together. Brody said yes, Brady is his friend. I kept going and named some of the other kids, noticing a theme. I asked Brody why Richa wasn't his friend and he replied "She's a girl and I'm a boy and Brady's a boy." And so it begins.

"I like to go on the potty"

How many times have Jacob and I scoffed at other parents who said their kid just woke up one day and decided to use the potty? Clearly that wasn't going to work for our 3-year old who screamed every time he sat on it and would rather pee in his pants, or on the floor, anywhere other than in the potty. But Saturday, out of nowhere he told Jacob that he didn't want to wear diapers anymore because they're for babies. That's huge progress but he still wouldn't let himself pee on the potty Saturday. He went once in his pants, once in his diaper during nap, then he held it until bathtime. During bath he was visibly uncomfortable and begging to get a diaper on so I said here, and put a tupperware container in front of him, pee in this. And he did. No hesitation, no crying. Then I poured the pee into the potty and flushed it. We talked about other ways to sit on the potty instead of using his Diego seat. He could sit on the potty without Diego or he could stand on his steps. He seemed open to trying something new.

Sunday he was amazing! He wore big boy underwear all day except for naptime. He had one very small accident on our way to dinner and another right before bedtime. But that's it. He used the potty the rest of the day, including a "quick" trip to Target that turned into an hour-long trip because he needed to use the potty 3 times while there. All successfully. He also made it through dinner at the Japanese Steakhouse with 5 or 6 potty visits. Our next project will be to get him to hold his pee a little better. I'm all for praising him when he goes on the potty but every 15-20 minutes is a bit ridiculous. It's hard to get excited when all he has are drips.

It's up to Miss Shahnaz and Shazia during the day this week to keep his momentum going. He'll be back in big boy underwear in the evening. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks we can start to phase out diapers at daycare and get him into pull ups or big boy underwear- very exciting. We've had two in diapers for so long, it's going to be nice to be down to one!

Hot

This morning as I pulled Logan out of his crib I noticed that he was really warm in his fleece pajamas. It wasn't as cold as I was expecting it to be when I dressed him last night. I said, whew, Logan, you're hot! To that, he started blowing out of his mouth like he was cooling hot food. I thought, no way, that must have been a coincidence. So, I waited a few minutes then repeated the test telling him my shirt was hot. He responded the same, blowing out of his mouth. How cool! He knows that when something is hot, you blow on it. Not bad for a barely one year old.

Pulling Himself Up

Well, right on the heels of crawling, Logan is now pulling himself up to a standing position. He did it first at Miss Shahnaz's on Wednesday, then repeated the feat several times at home. He'll pull himself up and cruise for a bit or just stand there until he lets go and falls back down. Two milestones in one week- that's a good week.

Peek-a-Boo

Logan played peek-a-boo in the car all the way to Shahnaz's house yesterday morning. He was cracking himself up, which was a lot of fun. Last night I came home to discover that Logan must have played peek-a-boo at the dinner table too... while eating pasta with tomato sauce. He was covered in sauce, from his mouth to his hair and even behind his ears. It took two wet wipes and a bath to get him clean but he was a happy boy.