Future Soccer Player

He's a kicking! The baby has been kicking me so much. I now feel him everyday and he is kicking harder and harder. For about a week now, as the kicks have gotten harder, I kept saying that any day Adam would be able to feel them.

Yesterday at work, I had my hand on my belly and I felt him kick! He doesn't kick enough in one spot for me to have time to get Adam, but last night when Adam was praying for him he felt him kick! How fun is that?!? Adam only felt Jacob kick a few times (how quickly I have forgotten how miserable I had started to get early on) and so I'm looking forward to Adam feeling this one kick more.

He still doesn't have a name. I have the name books and have started the process, but it overwhelms me and so then I stop. It is a major decision! I promise he will have a name before he is born, but it just might be the day before. =)

Family Pictures

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Potty Training

A few months ago we tried potty training. I was fully committed and was going to make it work. My goal has always been to only have one child in diapers at a time and I was determined to make this happen....it didn't happen. Jacob wasn't ready. When he would pee on the potty, he wouldn't even realize what was happening. I figured it wasn't time and I would try again later.

Well it is later and I still haven't tried. If we had all wood or tile floors, I could just let him run around in underware and I know it would work better, but I just can't handle cleaning pee off my carpet all day long. School has been crazy and I have been putting potty training off. I have a week between semesters and I think I'm going to try again then.

In the meantime, I figured I should start putting him on his potty more, so he has sat on there twice now before bath. The following conversations took place...

Potty Time #1:

Jacob: It spray? (looking at his boy part)

Mommy: Yes Jacob, go pee-pee on the potty. Spray.

Jacob looks at himself very perplexed

(What happened next was encouraged, or rather not stopped, by me as I thought I knew where he would take it and I just had to find out)

Jacob: turn on?

And then he pushed himself. As if he were pushing an on button.

It didn't work, but I got a good laugh and then told him to stop.

No pee.

Potty Time #2:

Jacob: It spray.

Nothing comes out.

Jacob: Mommy, it broken?

Mommy: Jacob, go pee-pee in the potty.

Jacob: Fix it. It need batteries.

(Oh my goodness, I almost fell over laughing!)

No pee so we take a bath. After bath he asked to go on the potty again.

Jacob: It need batteries. Daddy fix it later.

Still no pee-pee.