Week in Rewind

It's that time again! Time to rewind the week and see what we've been up to! Brace yourself, this is going to be rather lengthy!

I think Parker is OFFICIALLY potty trained!!! He has been pee-peeing and pooping on the potty for the past week and as a mini celebration of that I took him to target and let him pick out his very own big boy underwear. For the record he chose Cars, Diego and Mickey Mouse! He also conquered another hurtle in the potty training battle today by going pee-pee on the potty at Target!!! I was SOOOO VERRRYYYY proud of him! I know so many people have said boys are harder to potty train than girls and from the many horror stories I've heard I would have to say that is normally very true but I think Parker is one of the exceptions. I attribute much of his successful pottying to letting him do it all by himself! For him I think he needs that independence and to be able to figure it out all by himself. He even shuts the door while he's in the restroom...it's so cute!

This has all been rather bitter sweet for me. While I'm REALLY excited I only have to change one bottom now, seeing my baby in underwear now makes it even more painfully obvious that he is not a baby anymore and is moving farther and farther away from being one everyday. I guess they've got to grow up some time, right?



I started bathing the boys together a couple weeks ago to save a little time during the bedtime routine and I think they both really enjoy it. It's taken Parker a little while to realize he can't splash around as much anymore but I think it's working out really well. (sorry for the flower on the picture but as you can tell Carter's not really so good at the modesty thing yet, haha!)



Carter has finally realized that he can make some pretty neat noises and has been amusing himself (and not to mention the rest of us) non-stop with them. He is really into the fake cough right now and is too funny to watch when he really gets into it. I'll try and get some video of it soon.

Parker has started saying some really funny things lately but it seems like there has been more than usual this week. For instance last night he and Bobby were playing on the floor when Parker notice Bobby had a scrap on his leg and asked "what dat?" Bobby in turn said "a boo-boo." Parker with his little compassionate heart said "what happen...ou pall down?" Another on occurred while we were shopping at Target the other day (can you tell I like Target a little bit?). I was in the women's section looking at shorts and all of the sudden Parker kept repeating (to no one in particular) "I pee pee in the potty! I pee pee in the potty!" Good times!

There will be more details to come, but this past week I was asked to do one of my outfits as a giveaway on a wonderful blog I recently came across called http://www.easternshoremoms.blogspot.com/. We haven't worked out all the details quite yet but I'm am so honored that she thought so much of my clothing to want to do this contest! Check back in the next few days for the low down on when this is going to take place!

This picture has really nothing to do with anything we did this week, I just thought it was cute!

I hope everyone has a GREAT week and see you at the next rewind!

Not Me Monday renamed!

Bobby decided he doesn't like the format of Not Me Monday and since this is "our" blog and not just mine I'll be doing things a little differently. I'm still going to post the little funny/interesting snippets from our week but from now on I'll just tell it like it happened instead of trying to disguise it with a "not". I'll also be calling it Our Week in Rewind! So, here we go!

Parker has been pee-peeing in the potty REALLY well for the past few days! I'm soooo proud of the progress he's been making! He sometimes won't even tell me he has to go he just takes off his pull-up and runs into the bathroom to do his thing. We're still having some problems with number 2 but from what I've heard that's to be expected, especially with little boys.

Carter tricked me into thinking he was making some strides into cutting out his early morning feeding this past week. He went 11 1/2 hours last Sunday and it was HEAVEN! He's only done this a hand full of times. I'm hoping he'll be past it by the time he turns 7 months so I won't have to perform a little tough love on him ;)

I've started making some of Carter's baby food to save a little money and it's working out great! So far I've made sweet potatoes, carrots and bananas. He LOVES them!

Happy Father's Day to my wonderful Daddy!!! I miss you so very much and can't wait to see you in August! I hope your day was a GREAT one!

Not Me Monday!

I bet you all thought I'd totally forgone the whole Not Me Monday thing! Well I haven't, so here is my catch up Not Me Monday!

While Bobby was about to give Parker a bath he did not realize the shampoo/body wash was out and called down to ask me if we had anymore. I definitely didn't tell him to look under the sink in the bathroom b/c I was pretty sure there was some in there. He did not find a bottle, hold it up for me to look at from down stairs and ask if this was it. I in turn did not say yes because it looked like a bottle I've used before. The next morning when Parker got up I could not figure out why his hair looked so greasy even though I knew he had took a bath the night before. Finally I did not decide to investigate further by taking a look at exactly what Bobby used on his hair only to not find out it was LOTION!!!

I was not sitting on the couch nursing Carter while Parker was sitting next to me with his Teddy Bear the other night. I wasn't really paying too much attention to what he was doing until he said "all done". At that moment I did not look over to see him pulling down his shirt. When I asked him what he was doing, he did not tell "feeding Teddy". I asked him to show me how he feeds teddy and he did not pull up his shirt and put Teddy to his bare chest and start "nursing" him. Don't you just love 2 year old pretend play!!!

Carter absolutely loves his baby food! But he's not the only one, Parker has not started asking for the foil off the top of the baby food containers so he can lick it clean. He's definitely not been asking for more, either!

Last Sunday I did not have the worst stiff neck I've EVER had in my life. It was not so bad that I had to miss church and bible study because I could not even turn my head to face straight ahead. It was AWFUL! On top of everything it is still not 100% a week later!

Parker did not have his first day of Mother's Day Out last Tuesday and he did not have a WONDERFUL time! All the activities were focused around fire trucks and if you know anything about my little guy you will know this was right up his alley! It was so cute listening to all the fun things they did! He's so excited about going tomorrow!

Pretend play is not in full swing at the Stinson house hold and I'm definitely not getting a kick out of all the things Parker is coming up with. For instance I was not totally cracked up when Parker put Teddy in time out the other day. I did not also hear him telling Teddy "no ell me no!", translation "you don't tell me no!". I wonder where he's heard that before, hehe?

Carter is not rolling onto his stomach all the time these days! It is also not his favorite way to sleep now. He's definitely not loving his new found mobility, as you can see!

Putt Putt Golf

We took Parker and Carter for their first game of putt putt this evening. Parker LOVED it !!! Carter would have too, you know if he could swing a club, walk or talk ;) We went to a small putt putt place near our house. It wasn't the nicest place I've ever been to but Parker didn't know any better so he thought it was great! They had a lot of big animals figures throughout the course and he was totally enthralled with them. I think he would have been just as happy to walk around and look at all of them as he was to actually play golf. He did pretty good hitting the ball, too! He'd start out hitting it from the tee but then if it took to long to get it to the hole he'd just pick up the ball, place it pretty close to the hole, then hit it in. All in all it was a good time! Here are a few pictures of our next Tiger Woods (they were taken with my phone so pardon the quality)!

FYI: If you're reading this post and live in the Mobile area and are thinking about taking your family to Funtasia please be advised the course is NOT stroller friendly. We ended up having to take Carter out of the stroller several times so we could pick it up and carry it up steps or over bridges that were too narrow to push it over. I think if we end up taking him with us next time I'll either wear him (which would have been way too hot) or just carry him in the car seat. Oh well, live and learn!

On a subject totally unrelated to putt putt golf, Parker used the potty 4 times today!!! I think we're finally ready to start potty training! I've been doing a little research and I think we've devised a plan for how we're going to go about this. If it works fairly well I'll post it but until then I'd love to hear how some of you did the whole potty training thing!

Rolly Polly

Carter has been rolling over for quite some time now but this afternoon he really got into and nearly rolled from the playmat in the middle of our living room all the way to the chair I was sitting in. You can see from the pictures below that a pretty good ways! You might also be able to tell from the pictures that he was pretty proud of himself :)