Grandpa's Chain Gang

We have been in MT for a week - and we met Sean's sister Erin and her two kids Sean Patrick & Kade. While Grandpa was in the hospital, the kids worked on getting logs split and piled in the garage up at the cabin.

Here is a video....more pictures to follow of our trip....

Potty Training Update....

Brennan is a real potty champ. He's really had remarkable success - particularily with peeing. Poop has been a little bit slower. We had our potty party on a Sunday. By Tuesday, Brennan still hadn'ed poo'd in the potty, so Sean asked him if he wanted a diaper....he said "yes, papa." Within 10 min of the diaper, he pooped.

After talking with him about it, and reading some stuff on the internet we figured out that he was literally afraid of letting the poop out. When Sean pushes B on the swing, he plays the "Get Out of Here" game. He says "Get Out of Here" and then pushes him as hard as he can. Brennan loves it. Sean explained to him that poop is the yuckies and that his body just wants to "Get It Out of Here." That really seemed to connect with B. On Friday morning, we had several "false starts." Sean went to go take the garbage out, and I went to go shower. When Sean came back inside, Brennan proclaimed that he had pooped in the potty. Sean was a little doubtful until he checked it out - and I came running when I heard him hoop & holler. Now we have a tradition of "running around" with each successful poop in the potty....with Sean and Brennan galloping around the dining room like Honey and Arnold (Grandpa Jack's horses).

We started to use bribes the day B actually used the potty. On Thursday, when Sean asked B what he wanted as a prize if he put poop in the potty, B said he wanted a lawn mower - a real one....so, Sean took him to the Home Depot to look at them. Luckily for us, I guess, he didn't poop in the potty until Friday - and that day he said the prize he wanted was a cake. That was much easier.....below is a picture of him with his "Poop Cake."

Practice with Babies...

Our neighbors recently had a baby and Brennan was very excited to try and hold him....until he started to cry....

Happy 4th of July!

Pouring rain at the Fireworks show - but we went and Brennan love it - although afterwards he said he didn't like the "boomers."
Of course, the flags handed out at the Issaquah Down Home Family 4th Parade were quickly dismantled for the sticks and their drum stick potential.

He absolutely LOVED collecting candy....of course most of it is candy I won't actually let him eat, but whatever.