Trace and potty time

Update on the potty training. For the past few days he has been going to the potty on his own. Without saying a word he goes into the bathroom.. finds a way to reach the lights, takes off his diaper and sits on the potty. A lot of the times he goes but a few times it had been too late. I guess he is a self taught kid. I have showed him what he is suppose to do now it is up to him to learn the rest of the way. If i pressure him too much then it is not on his terms and he will take longer to get results.
Last night was a first. He got up an hour or so after bedtime and said he had to potty. Jason took him to the potty and he did go. It was a nice thing he had told us. We think he is getting the idea and just learning about what the signal of a full bladder is.
He also os constructing more words and more sentances . it is awesome

Child 2.0

the namming is here. We have chosen Dannon Tyler
Dannon was just a name that sounds right. It stuck in our minds. Jason had chosen it. And Tyler is the name of one of our favorite songs.
Trace is growing and thriving well.
He is doing good even though he has had to endure an emotional time in our families' life. I will not go into detail but i feel sorry for what had happened. I know this will not affect him in a negative way. It might be a great thing for him in time, but he does not need to see something happen to his parents like what had just happened. he is confused but ok.
He playes well.
He is doing great with his new cousin. She is still a newborn and he fusses so much over her. he is such a gentle creature when it comes to her. he is affectionate to her.
this makes me feel better. makes me feel like he will be the most wonderful brother.
Jason is trying to teach him now that his mommy is important. never leave the house without kissing mommy, always say please and thank you. Mommy is a gentle person and not to roughhouse with a girl.
it is a great lesson to learn. and it saves me. i will be in the house with three men and i need the smallest things that remind me that i am of the fair sex.
his sleeping habbits are somewhat better now so that is nice.
we have an appointment tomorrow for Dannon. I hope it goes well considering i have been rather ill. basically stressed beyind belief and bedridden from stress and illness.
i have lost weight and have become to the pint where i am not eating like i should. some days i go a long time without food ony because it makes me ill to eat. I had a bought of severe dehydration that i am trying to overcome.
we will see what the doctor says tomorrow.

Trace amazing again-and new height

Well he finally figured out door knobs a few days ago.. has not utalized this knowledge since he knows that i come running when he knocks on the door. Oh well he will get there in time. He did figure this out when i had the door shut for a shower. He came right in.
Aslo last night was the first night he slep through the night. YAY! i just kepted on popping into his room at unexpected times through the first two hours of bedtime and tld him to et back in bed until eventually he got bored and fell asleep.
Today he did look a ittle slimmer in the legs so i measured him.
He is now a whopping 34.75 "
he is now around the 50th percentile. which is good. he is about average.

Trace being cute and smart!

He is so cute and so smart!
He was cute this morning becase the first thing he did when he got up was walk around the house looking and asking for daddy. He came up to me and asked where's daddy.. I told him daddy was at work. He dropped his head and looked sad, then he looked up with a smile and said Daddy firefighter. it was like he thinks and takes pleasure that when daddy is not here he is out being a firefighter. Even though daddy was at his day job it still was cute. I will wait a while until i tell him daddy is not just a firefighter.
But then today he was getting into all the things he should not be getting into. there are totes of computer and electronic things in the computer room that he was going through. he found a speaker we use for the computer that was put away. after 5 min of looking at it he took it into his room and automatically went to his tv and plugged it into the sound output!
he was amazed when i turned up the volume and the sound was coming from that speaker.
SO SMART!

ticker

Off the Bottle

I am so happy.
We had suck a big weekend being a nice 4 day weekend for jason. We went shopping one day where i got trace a cup with a straw built in. He liked it. and he had been drinking out of other sippeys for a week or so.
one morning he was on the sippey and straw cup more than normal so i just told jason to make the bottle disappear. It has been two days and two nights with only a few meltdowns but relativly productive without the bottle!
we did it ! IT IS FINALLY GONE!
i just guess it was all with the timing. he has increased his vocab and his mimicking words and sounds ahas increased a lot.
he only woke once last night for the bottle but soon he wil prolly sleep all night long. this is a big event. and i am glad that it has happened before the baby arrives. trace is such a wonderful little guy.. i love the way he looks at us. his eyes are so aware.