potty training attempts

Well, Leah is starting to ask to go Pee Pee on the potty but she doesn't actually ever go pee....I just hold her up there or sit her on her mini potty (she picks which she wants). Today I took off her diaper and she was running around and I reminded her that if she goes pee pee or poo poo in the potty, she can have a treat. Well, she comes back about three minutes later and she says, "Teet?" I say, "Ok, but you need to go pee pee or poo poo in the potty." She looks at me seriously and says, "Poo poo!" Then I thought she was going to go in the potty but she leads me to the kitchen and I see that she has taken a dump on the kitchen floor. She points to it and says, "Mama! Teet!" So, trying not to laugh too hard, I had to explain to her that she only gets a treat if she goes poo in the actual potty. The kitchen floor doesn't count. I did take a picture and sent it to Julian, though. I am sure he appreciated the visual.

29 weeks

Today I am 29 weeks pregnant with baby girl number 2! We are struggling finding a name that we love for her and welcome name ideas sent to us! I feel so bad that we don't have a name for her yet, but we think about it every day.

I am starting to get things ready for the new baby...we have all Leah's little clothes out so wash (eventually) and today I started organizing Leah's room to make room for our next little one. I found things I did for Leah like my belly cast, pregnancy journal, and this blog that I didn't do for the next little one. I am debating doing a belly cast just so she doesn't feel left out but honestly, I don't know what anyone will do with it. Part of me thinks that I should just do it so that she can't be upset about it later and part of me thinks that I will just do something else for her that I didn't do for leah. Any second children out there that have an idea how she will feel? I am sure my little sister would say to do it, but it WAS a pain in the butt and it will sit in our garage for years to come. It did remind me that I need to 1. keep up this blog so that I can update things about her as well so she feels included and 2. do some special things for her to have as keepsakes when she's older. Also, any ideas send them my way.

Leah has been clingy and emotional the last couple of weeks but she's so much fun too. She's talking more and able to play a little more by herself. Today she ran errands with me and then we went out for frozen yogurt. She sat in her own chair across the table from me like a big girl.

One of her new things is saying "mama. YEA" she says "Yeah" in a really high pitch and that's her either mocking me or pretending to be me. I'll go with the latter although Julian laughs that it's the first. She falls a lot now but getting mommy's kisses seem to fix every boo boo. I wonder how long that will last.

we spent the 4th w my fam in donner...she mostly loved playing w Oreo, my brother's cocker spaniel. She follows that dog everywhere.

I asked Julian what else I should add and he said that she is starting to go down the slides at the park by herself and that she pretends to talk on the phone like Julian does. She'll say "Uh huh. Okay. yeah. Yeah. ha ha ha (very fake laugh)" Right now she found my makeup bag on the counter and she has it beside her and is going through it all by herself. I just bought new makeup and put my old stuff in her own bag but of course, she only wants the stuff I use now. She has a 40 dollar eye brow pencil/highlighter set that she's shaking around. I swear, she's going to break everythign in that bag, and yet I send Julian over there to take pictures instead of taking it away from her. I guess it serves me right.

Then she moved on to find the Britta water pitcher and tried to fill up our glasses. More than once, she's done this and spilled water all over our carpet. It's pretty cute, though.

Ok, time to get her off to bed.