It has been a very busy month in the Calon house. As usual lol. I am hoping it will slow down, but I know that as the kids get older things just get more hectic. So where do we start... Here are some updates on how the kids are doing.
Ally is growing by leaps and bounds. Everyday is a new adventure with that little spark plug. She is FINALLY potty trained. We have been working at the potty thing since last August and were getting seriously worried. She was completely refusing to go. No matter what we did, if we put her in panties she would pee and poop in them. No panties would result in lots of messes for Mom to clean up :( But at the end of May we resorted to horrible and blatant bribery. There should be a lot of shame in these actions but hell they worked when nothing else had lol. We told her that if she went poop in the potty she would get a boy barbie (she desperately wanted a new one). So accident after accident we would remind her that if she went poop in the potty she would get a boy barbie. Well the peeing in the potty came first and after almost 2 whole weeks with only 2 pee accidents the wonderful day came! When she finally went poop in the potty she was SO proud of herself. She had to phone Daddy, Grandma M, Grandma L and Grandpa R. She was especially excited because as soon as she was finished we went straight to the toy store and bought her a boy barbie!! We were very optimistic and even though she still had a couple poop accidents we pulled out another bribe (lol). If she went poop in the potty twice in a row with no accidents she would get a baby boy barbie. Well she thought that was great and tried really hard and voila it happened very quickly! That was almost a month ago and she has only had 1 pee and 1 poop accident in that whole time!! And on the 10th of July if she has no more accidents she gets a Barbie car! The really awesome thing is she goes all by herself. She just runs to the bath room and is SO PROUD of herself. It is very wonderful to see.
The bonus of all this potty training is a content and happy 3 year old. Ally and I were having a really rough time seeing eye to eye when the whole PT thing was going on. She didn't like me very much and I was less than impressed with her attitude. A couple of times she went as far to ask "for a new mudder!" "you are not nice Mommy and I want a new mudder! One that won't be mean and get mad!" It really took all I had to not laugh my ass off at the time. But all that tension seems to be behind us and she is once again back to my sweet little angel!
Now Mr Joe. He is a wonder of wonders! He is rolling like crazy these days. Tummy to back, back to tummy. All day long! He is also trying very very hard to crawl. When on his tummy he gets his knees under his bum and pushed with all his might. He is actually learning that he can get around just by doing that and moves around the living room very quickly. He is also sitting on his own for short periods of time! I asked Dr. Keller about it and he said that it was very early for him to be doing that. (Shameless Mommy/Daddy bragging ;P)
Since he is moving around so much lately I was keeping a close eye on his weight. So at the beginning of June he was 14lbs 8oz and when I went to weigh him again he had not gained any weight! So I made an appointment with Dr. Keller and although Joe is still in the 97th percentile for height (he is freaking tall!) he actually dropped from the 61st percentile to the 50th percentile for his weight. For those that don't know Alex did this when she was around 5-6 months. Only with Alex she dropped to below the 5th percentile and we had to endure months of specialist appointments, ultrasounds and blood tests. So I was very concerned that Joe would follow the path of his sister so I kept a very close eye on his weight gain. So after examining him, Dr Keller concluded that it is just genetics. Both of the kids were very active very early and while most babies have the ability to put on a lot of weight before they get active and burn it off, ours don't. The funny thing is Joe still looks chunky! He has fat little rolls and chubby cheeks but is getting so tall!! So to put my mind at ease Dr. Keller and I decided to start little Joe on rice Pablum. I was very nervous to do this. I wanted to wait until at least 5 1/2 months because studies have shown that there is a greater chance of allergies if you start solids too early. but Dr. Keller assured me that if we stick to rice for a longer period that everything should work out great. And boy was Joe ready to eat solids! He can pack away a feeding in no time flat and actually grabs the spoon and pulls it towards him mouth! So after 2 weeks of rice cereal we went back to get him re-weighed and he is back on a growth curve, still the 50th, but at least he's not dropping!
I have lots more news but I'm going to do it in a couple of posts ;)
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