Tim & Laurel's Blog

We've been having some potty issues with Seth lately.  I don't know if it's regression, distraction, testing boundaries, or what, but we are trying to figure out how to get him to stop wetting himself.  We've had to put him back in Pull-Ups to save our furniture.  Anyway, we talked to him about making a potty chart with stickers, and if he can go 4 days without wetting his Pull-Up during the day, he can go back to wearing big-kid underpants.  He was very excited about this idea and told us to go and buy him a chart at Charts-R-Us!

-Laurel

Zeke started really walking about a week before Seth's birthday (which would have been the end of July).  He has really taken off since then.  Now he can walk pretty well across a whole room in one try, and yesterday I saw him stand up from a sitting position without holding onto anything.  He is very excited about and proud of his new talent!  I think he is hopeful that he will be able to keep up with the sibs soon, and we're just hoping we can keep up with all 3.

-Laurel

Seth's fifth birthday was Thursday.  We started celebrating Thursday by eating pancakes for breakfast and then getting him a bike.  It wasn't very expensive, because he'll outgrow it soon, but it's good enough for him to learn on.  We had lunch at Chick-fil-A, so the kids got to play on the playground there.  Then we went to a hotel here in Tulsa that has a small waterpark (really just a shallow pool with a couple small slides and some floating "lilypads" the kids can walk across).  Friday we ate at Chuck E. Cheese for lunch and then came home to get ready for Saturday.  Saturday we had lots of family come.  Grandma, Grandpa, John, Kathy, Bailie, Emma, Caleb, Elias, Tim, Theo, and Theron arrived first followed shortly by Grammy, Grampy, Aaron, Guenevere, Carder, Cody, and Cori and then Charity, Gabriel, and Lydia.  We ate lunch, had cake, and opened presents and then headed to the Jenks Aquarium.  It was crowded!  I guess there aren't too many places to go in the Tulsa area on Saturday with indoor entertainment.  Some of the kids got pretty tired and a couple even napped, but I think everyone had a pretty good time.  It had been a while since we had been there, so it was fun to see some of the new exhibits, and the shark tunnel is always great.  Now we're thoroughly exhausted, and I have no creativity left for Tim's birthday.

-Laurel

Tonight while I was changing Zeke's diaper, Seth decided he wanted to watch.  As I was applying diaper rash ointment, Seth was asking me questions about what I was doing.  I explained to him at one point that Zeke even had a little redness on his "peepee bottom", a phrase Seth invented himself to describe his own boy parts.  Unbeknown to me, Tim had taught him the real word, so Seth said, "You mean his p***s?"  I said, "Yes, that's right."  After we discussed where he had learned the word, he said, "I'll show you a p***s."  He proceeded to pull down his pants and then exclaimed, "Now THAT'S a p***s!"  I took that opportunity to discuss a little modesty and stranger danger.

-Laurel