Talking Dog

Mom training the dog to answer questions. The mess you are seeing in the background is the bathroom being finished, we think ; ).

Bunch of Potty Mouths

Camlyn's potty training has been on hold for the past couple of weeks. Potty training the puppy has been the highest priority because I would rather not buy diapers for both. Oh yes, you can buy puppy diapers. The other night on the way up the stairs after his bath Camlyn informed me he was about to have an oops. I whisked him up the stairs and deposited him on the potty. Then the whole family became involved. Caeden came into the room to join in the potty fun as well. There was a bunch of talk about snakes and stinks and when Camlyn announced that it coming Caeden started a rousing round of "She'll be coming around the mountain." When all the excitement was over Caeden ran downstairs to inform his daddy what Camlyn did. What did he tell Moises? Not that Camlyn used the potty, on no. "Daddy, Camlyn pooed great big!"

Back Of Our Cereal Box

Not so long ago Lani shared with us what was on the back of their cereal box. At a recent milk run to our grocery store I found this. My boys are not big cereal eaters normally except for the occassional craving for "CheeChos." Caeden has been on a football kick lately and this really turned his head around. Cyclone Crunch has replaced his beloved "butter and jelly" as breakfast of choice. Certainly a lot easier to produce when breakfast is demanded before the coffee is made. Wonder what happens when I keep the box but replace the contents inside?

A bunch of little changes...

• big boy bed
• appearance of pull ups
• potty chair is moved back into the bathroom, and daddy isn't complaining
• highchair sitting idly in the corner
• mommy listening in on little boy conversations, one of which went something like this, "Happy, Caeden? Yeah. You?"

All this adds up to a boy who is about to have a birthday. He voted today to have a kitty cake, just a little tweak from the puppy cake that he had last year. What will Xuo Xuo say?

At least the boys are excited....

So we have already been outside this morning to play in the snow. Caeden had very lofty plans of making tunnels and snowmen. Camlyn was a bit more on the realistic side. He wasn't outside for more than a minute, "It's cold out there." He was content eating his breakfast at the front door watching Caeden wallow around in our frosted grass. Now that we got that out of our system we will see what the rest of the day brings....