Cute Cabooses

Potty Training update :

Nathan puts his own underwear on. (he likes to see the majority of the characters on his...can't really see that from the back now can ya ?   And other than Woody and Buzz, Ryan calls all other character underwear Elmo :) No wait, he picked them out, so he calls them...MY Elmo !

Nathan.   The boy is baaasically potty trained.   He pooped in the potty 3 times today, and only requested me to follow him in to watch once.   He yells for me to wipe him and watch him flush.   Well that is unless Ryan hasn't already flushed it all down....which pisses Nathan off to no end.  someone usually gets hit and then there is crying.   Flushing is a big deal at our house. 
I took him out of the house 3 days in a row last week with underwear on and he didn't have any accidents.    I was gone for several hours each time too.    He even went poop at Barnes and Noble.   He peed in almost every store we went to. (ugh)  there were 8 stores if you wanted to know. 2 the first day, 3 the second and 3 the 3rd.  He was super great about it.   Not afraid of the big flush like the other 3 were.
He did pee in his pants today once.   I'm not sure why...and I expect this is normal and he'll still move forward.  Mostly he's had to be naked to be fully potty trained so this is great progress.  I'm so proud of him.



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 Ryan.   As long as I remind him to go to the bathroom every so often...he's potty trained.   He is totally potty trained (- pooping) if he's naked.   Put underwear on him and it's a 50/50.   Today he peed, washed his hands and then 2 minutes later peed on the kitchen chair.     He was in underwear.
If he would have been naked, he'd have run in and peed on the potty.
I have NEVER been a fan of the pull ups.   but for this kid, I think we'll be doing pull ups.   He can pull them down and go if he wants to, but I don't have to hover over him and worry about him having an accident AND it's "buzz woody mama".  
Again with the....it'll happen when he's ready so why stress about it now.
Any ways.....if we are home, he usually doesn't have anything on below the waist.   But going out he's doing the pull up thing.  I suppose one good thing about this freezing cold weather.  It keeps us inside.

Neither one is wearing underwear at night.    I won't even PUSH that issue for a while.... at least until they start showing me signs that they are ready.   (we have them in nighttime diapers they pee so much.   they pee out in those darn things all of the time too) 

Sooooo, the boys and I made honey wheat bread tuesday.  
I used yeast that had expired.   I had it in my freezer (mostly forgotten about) and figured, hey what the heck.   When I talked to my mom I asked her if we would die if we ate it.   She said that she would be surprised if it would even rise but it wouldn't hurt us.     
She was right.  After it barely puffed up (after sitting for 1 1/2 hrs) ....I kneaded it and put it in bread pans to see if it would again "puff up"   The boys were so excited that I couldn't stand to just throw it away.   and then. I had the most wonderful idea to make scones out of it for dinner.
OH MY GOOTNESS MARSHA THEY WERE SO GOOD !

Grocery list :
milk
eggs
cinnamon
wheat thins
lunch meat
egg noodles
yeast
more honey butter