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Hello Again!

Hello again everyone! Well so much has happened since I last posted that I'm not even going to attempt to give you a play by play, but I'll give you some of the highlights.

-Probably the most exciting is that I started doing daycare. I started at the end of April and have 5 kiddos that I watch (including Beau). They are all really great kids so they make it pretty easy on me (most of the time ;). Although every day is different and there are always a few surprises we have a pretty good routine down and it goes pretty smoothly for the most part, plus it is so great to be able to be home with Beau on a daily basis.


-The other big news (ok, maybe THIS is the MOST exciting) is that we are expecting baby #2 sometime around January 17th. So Beau is going to be a big brother....he acts excited when we tell him about it but I don't think he really knows what that means.


-Other than that it has been pretty much business as usual around here. Beau is growing up so fast that I can hardly believe it. Just last week he started wearing big boy underwear (or "big wears" as he calls them) in the evenings. It went pretty well, a few minor accidents here and there, he would go to the potty but then be too scared to go. BUT as of last night that all changed. Luke and I had kind of backed off and let it be his decision when he wants to sit on the potty and when to put "big wears" on. Well he wanted to last night and a few minutes later told me he had to go potty....and he did! #1 AND #2...he was pretty proud of himself. So we'll see, we're taking it at his pace right now but with any luck we will have a potty trained little boy before the new baby in January.


And if that wasn't enough growing up for one weekend, we picked up Beau's big boy bed yesterday morning. He absolutely LOVES it. He always wants to go in his room and climb around on it. I was thinking ok thats good but when it actually comes time to sleep in it his tune will change. Nope he was still just as excited and he fell asleep and slept in it all night. He's also napping in there right now....so fingers crossed this will be a smooth transition. We still have his crib set up in his room just in case, but he seems to have no interest in it...he's all about the big boy bed.


Ok, so that's a quick catch up did everyone have a good 4th? We didn't do anything too exciting but still had a good weekend. We went to fireworks in Spring Valley on Friday night, Beau wasn't too sure, but eventually decided that they were ok. On Saturday it rained most of the day but it cleared up in the evening so we took Beau to the parade in Stewartville. Both Luke and I had some reservations because we just took him to the Rochester Fest parade about a week ago and he was terrified of everything (just too much noise and too many people he was beyond overwhelmed... to the point where we ended up just leaving.) This time he was a little unsure at the beginning but warmed up to it pretty quickly. By the end he was standing on the curb and chasing candy. After it was over he kept saying "I like parade". Afterwards we stuck around for the fireworks, and this time Beau loved them. He ohhed and ahhhed and clapped right along with the crowd. His favorite were the green ones, he would keep turning to us and say "I like that one".


We finished up the weekend with ice cream cones on the deck....can you get any better than that!?


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