Bryce 27 Months

Bryce has made some good progress with potty training. When we are home he still does great. However, when we were out I would put pull-ups on him and often he would go in his pull-ups and not think much of it. A couple of weeks ago I decided to do away with pull-ups and put him in "bigs" padded training pants. He's had a couple of accidents while we've been out, but overall is doing really well. I thought as a motivator I'd buy him real underwear. He now has fire truck and heavy equipment underwear and Thomas the Tank Engine underwear. If he makes it through the day without going pee in his bigs he gets to wear real underwear the next day. This seems to be a good motivator as he has had less accidents. A few times he has started to go in his bigs, but stops himself and runs to the potty. More and more he is forgetting to ask for a treat after he goes potty, which I like.

Bryce has been on an on again off again nap strike for the past couple of weeks. He'll lay in his been for 1.5 hours and play or sign. A few times he has eventually fallen asleep after over an hour of being in his bed. This is almost worse than no nap because it throws his night time schedule off. If it keeps up, I might try pushing his nap time back until 2ish and see if he goes down easier.

We started another session of Music Together. Once again Bryce really seems to enjoy it. He is participating more and more and asks for the music at home.

Bryce is talking about Faith more and more. I'm really trying to prepare him for her arrival. I tell him every day that Faith will be here very soon. I'm also trying to prep him for my hospital stay so that he knows Mommy will be gone for at least one night and that he'll stay with Nanny and Pawka. He seems excited to have a baby sister. Let's just hope his excited continues once she arrives.

Bryce continues to love trains, tractors, and truck with trailers. He points every truck, trailer and tractor we see while driving. Every time he gets in his car seat he says, "I do my part" and proceeds to latch the middle strap across his chest. While I love that he is trying to help it also takes a long time because he explains that, "this little part goes in this little part" and then he'll actually latch it. He definitely likes to repeat himself and make sure we understand him and what he is doing.

When he goes down at night he still wants his door open. Now, instead of leaving a light on in the hall, Nathan bought two blue LED night lights. One is in his room, the other in the hall. They are not as bright as a regular night light, but much safer than a regular night light. We figured if needing a light was going to be a regular thing we'd get permanent ones that are safe. He also wants me to sit-sit on the floor for a couple of minutes when we first put him to bed and then he tells me, "Mommy check on Bryce" so that I'll come back in a few minutes and make sure he is okay.

Here are some pictures of Bryce helping Pawka dry his truck.