Yesterday I told you Ryan was just days away from walking on his own. Well, ladies and gentlemen, here is proof of how close he really is. Some might even say that he is already walking. I'm not ready to say that just yet, but it's close. Very close.
In case you were wondering what that noise is in the backgroung (no, not Sophia's voice, silly, the noise from the TV), it's Elmo's Potty Time DVD. We are simultaniously trying to get Ryan to walk and potty train Sophia. Multitasking at its finest.
We've been very busy these last few days. Ryan is quickly learning to walk and Sophia is taking to the potty one baby step at a time.
In his zombie-like stance, Ryan will stumble half-way across the room and gleefully fall into whosever's arms are reaching out to him. The joy on his face while he's walking is absolutely priceless. I wish I could bottle it up and share it with the world. It's a mixture for pride and joy and I absolutely love it. It's only a matter of days before the big guy is chasing his sister around the house.
Sophia loves helping her little brother walk too. But sometimes, just sometimes, she gets a little jealous of the attention Ryan is getting by walking and will pretend to be a baby and walk slowly at one of us and fall into our arms laughing.
Another potty training breakthrough happened this morning on the way to daycare. Sophia started complaining that her belly hurt about a block and a half away from daycare. I asked her if she had to use the potty and she said a very firm YES. I raced the rest of the way while begging her to hold it. As soon as we got to the classroom, I told her teacher she said she had to use the potty and they took her to the bathroom. Five minutes later, the teacher came out and told me she went on the potty. Hooray for Sophia! Now we just have to keep it up.
Since she's been sitting on the potty, Sophia has also noticed her girl parts and has put us in the predicament of what to call those parts. As fate would have it, the lovely Sue from Happy Meals & Happy Hour just addressed this topic this week. Today she has made a list of the names her readers have suggested. Go ahead, go there and take a peak, some of them are hilarious. Before I had kids, I was strongly for calling those parts their "correct" name, but now that I'm a mom, somehow telling my 2-year-old about her vagina seems far less appealing. So does anyone have any ideas on what should I call Sophia's girl parts? I need help here.
I dropped Ryan off at my parents house Friday afternoon and while I was there he was trying to roll over from his back to his belly. This is tough for any baby to learn. It's hard to get the momentum going enough, so in order to roll over the baby has to actually want to get there.
