We are making progress!

As you probably already know, we have been working on potty training James, and it has been going very well. James has recently developed the attitude of " show me the money". . In other words, "if you want me to stop playing, take the time to walk to the bathroom, pull down my pants, sit on the potty, and wait there until somthing happens, then I need to see how this annoyance is beneficial for me." So..we have begun rewarding with M&M's! Which works wonderfully since he doesn't get chocolate very often. He gets 1 M&M for trying and 2 M&M's for "going". Well...now that you have that tid bit of information, I'll share with you a funny story.
Yesterday morning was somewhat "normal" I guess you could say. I was in the kitchen (no way) tending to some chores and Robby was hanging out with the kids in the living room. Next thing I know, I hear the toilet in the boys' bathroom flush and James saying "eww yuck". I ask Robby to check and see what James was up to. Come to find out, James had gone into the bathroom, completely stripped off his clothes and diaper, climbed on the toilet, went poop, and flushed!!! Without even telling us that he had to go! We absolutely could not believe this! So..after that, we cleaned him up, washed his hands, gave him M&M's and dressed him in clean clothes. He is a very independent child, no doubt about that. We are definantly making progress here!

Josh is continuing to sleep through the night...up to 12 hours straight!...that is if you don't count the occassionaly waking up at 3am fussing a little..He's learning a bit of tough love right I guess you could say. We are determined to stick to the schedule as much as possible, that way his body learns a routine. So we don't caiter to his early morning rises..he falls back to sleep after just a couple of minutes, and sleeps another 4-5 more hours. He speaks to us in his own little language, which is VERY cute. It consists of "bbuuuaaa", "gggooooo", " and "ehhhoooo" :-) We try to imitate his "words" back to him to courage his vocal skills...and he LOVES banannas, cereal, and apple juice! We will be trying sweet peas tomorrow. Stay tuned. dundundun...

Pictures: James and Daddy built a castle, Josh smiling for the camera, Daddy and James helping Mommy make a cake, the finished cake,

and the last one is a piture of my pantry after we left the door opened.. not too sure how it got that way..lol!!