Jax is potty trained! It is amazing watching him and his super colon live on his all fruit and fiber diet and know that for once I will not bear the brunt of it's violence.
We introduced him to the potty 11 months ago, just on the off chance that we didn't realize it, but he was ready for potty training and just wanted us to push him in the right direction. We quickly realized that this was not the case, and so after many unsuccessful attempts and countless celebrations of "movements" and a bottomless pit of potty bribes we have finally achieved a victory on the porcelain front. Enough of the potty talk, lets move on...
Ivy has expanded her vocabulary to dada, boof (Jax), mmmmmmmmm, babababa, and gagagagagggggg, anytime I try to get her to say, "mama" she just smiles and laughs in my face. At that moment, I have psychic visions of her teenage years and I am not excited. I think that when the time comes, I will let Jax potty train her.
She has finally started eating solids and she isn't really that thrilled about it. I thought she would love a little variety in her diet and yet whenever we feed her she gazes wistfully off in the distance thinking of simpler times when she didn't have to try and chew before she swallowed. However, once we introduce a newer 'new' food, if we revert back to an old 'new' food it is like she is experiencing a meal at a 5 star restaurant. Other than finding a sensitivity to squash it has mostly been your run-of-the-mill introducing solids to a baby stage.
We went on a little family adventure about 2 weeks ago. Ivan had a doctor's appointment down in sunny Florida, so we as a family packed up and joined him for a 3 day trip down to the sunshine state. He had a day off between appointments, so we woke up early and drove down to Orlando and spent the day at Sea World. All was going well until around 4:00 when the sky decided to open up and give us a whole year's worth of rain in a very concentrated hour and then continue to storm until we left at 9 that night. The boys were dressed in their bathing suits in preparedness for sitting in the infamous "splash zones" during the shows, Ivy and I were not so well equipped and I still found myself soaking wet after a 3 hour car ride back to the hotel (we changed Ivy into some dry clothes when we got back into the car).Even with the storm , we still had a great time there and I am excited we went. Jax got to see his beloved alligators and Ivy was entranced by the jumping orcas.
