Santa Clause
A few days ago I took Lachoneus and Tiberias to Walmart with me. Santa Clause was there! Walmart was taking free pictures with Santa for the customers which is awesome! But both my boys had a cold and said they did not want to sit on Santa's lap. So we just watched Santa for a minute from a little distance. Then we moved onto our shopping.
Luke asked me "Mom, is Santa real?" I replied after a moment, "Some people believe Santa is real and some people believe he isn't."
Luke thought for a moment then said "I think he's real."
He's five years old so I would hope that would be his answer. He's so cute!
Twins
Last night while enjoying our last night at the Roundy home with Kelly, Denise, Travis, (Hannah was at school/college and Maria had just moved out and gotten married while Abi is on her mission)Trevor and Simone; Luke was sitting by me.I am seven months along in the pregnancy and I have tried many times to get Luke to feel Athena kick from inside my tummy. Every time she does though he claims he can't feel it. She has never kicked him extremely hard but he should have been able to feel it atleast.
Luke said "Mom, I want us to have twins." I explained to him how we know we are not having twins. Luke went with us the first time and saw only one baby in the ultrasound.
He was very disappointed. He said "Well, next time we have a baby we need to have twins. A boy and a girl." He was quiet upset because he wanted to choose how many children are in my tummy and I wasn't giving him the answers he wanted.
Potty Training
About two weeks ago I started night potty training Tiberias. I used the pee alarm we borrowed from Jon and Emily.
When Luke night potty trained, few months ago,he had quite a few accidents in bed! But he learned to get up and walk to the bathroom and go potty in the night. Then he learned to hold it all night. He no longer gets up and goes to the bathroom but does not have any accidents either.
Tiberias is a lot younger learning to stay dry at night. He won't get up and walk to the bathroom. He has said "Leave me alone. Let me sleep" many nights. And he started refusing to stand and pee for a while...he'd fall to the ground whining to go back to bed. So I took him to Toys R Us and let him pick out a brand new toy that he can play with after each cooperative and successful night. That was a good encouragement for him. He picked a blue car that you pull back and let drive.
But now we are to the point where I have to carry him from bed to the bathroom and sometimes struggle to get him to cooperate. Then I carry him back to bed.
Well, last night he did not even want to pee before bed time. So I told him that if he used the toilet before bed I would not wake him in the night. He could sleep the whole night through. I was optimistic that he could go all night without an accident and without a bathroom break. He had a successful night.
I believe it was only two to three nights, at the beginning, that Ty had accidents in bed. With Luke it was soaking the bed for about a week before he learned to hold it.
So now I will stop getting Ty up during the night and see how things go from now on.
