Got a BFP!!

Well, I got a suprise last Friday, it turns out that I am pregnant. I think I was in complete shock over the weekend, but now I am so excited. I am also so nervous as I do not want to lose this baby. My first apointment is not until Feb 11th, so I will have to wait until then to see if everything is alright with this baby.

Turning 3!!

Daniel had his third birthday. Where does the time go. I cannot believe he is that old now. He has his own personality, is trying to be Mr. Independent, by picking his own clothes, trying to get his own food out of the fridge, he has a great memory and having his own attitude as well. Here are some pictures of his third birthday.

I just love the look he had in the pictures. It was like he was saying to his little friend, ugh o.k., o.k.




A picture of his cake, which I made. Acutally made two, one was chocolate and one was vanilla. He loves cars to death and not just the Cars movie cars, but any cars, trucks and trains.

Playing Pin the Nose on the Clown. He did pretty good.

We let the kids make their own pizza. They had fun doing this.

Playing in the Snow!!

We finally had gotten some snow in the begining of March. Daniel has been waiting to go sleeding and playing in the snow. Here is a picture of him sleading. He loves to go sleeding.


He was having so much fun playing in the snow. He loved throwing snow at us.

It was great to finally get some pictures of him with a big smile.

Daniel and his snowman. We did not have much snow left, so we built a little snow man. He was so proud of it.

Big Boy Bed!!

Daniel had been a horrible sleeper in his day bed. He said he was scared, saw monsters, ect. We figured that his bed was not the most comfortable and that he was ready for a big boy bed. Since getting the big boy bed he is now sleeping in his bed most night (he use to be in our room every night) and he has taken naps two days in a row. Her is a picture of his big boy bed. He is a huge cars fan.

Christmas

I had a friend remind me that I am a little behind on posting on my blog. I cannot believe that Halloween is the last time I blogged on her. We had a nice Christmas in Florida, but it just did not seem like Christmas being so warm. Here are some pictures:

Posing for the camera:


I thought he was so adorable on this sleigh:

Here he is with his cousin. She is three weeks younger than him, but a couple inches taller:

Him with his Santa hat on:

Daniel got a bunch of toys for Christmas. I am happy as I needed the new toys to play with him with, as I was getting board of his old toys. We had a great Christmas though.

Sabrina

Halloween!!

This year he was a little golfer. Yes, it was a daddy influenced costume, but he actually picked it out himself before daddy ever said anything. When we went looking at the store he wanted to be superman or spiderman, but they did not have any in his side, so we decided that this would be the last year that we would be able to get something cute that he would not argue to much with, so we decided to order the little golfer outfit. He loved it, especially since it had some minature golf clubs.

He is too cute in this costume. I love the smile.

This look was one of no more pictures. Let's please go trick-or-treating. This year he did a good job of saying trick-or-treat, even if it did not come out too clear all the time. It was chilly outstide, which was upsetting as we had to put a coat on him, so it covered up some of his costume.

These are the pumkins that we carved. This is mamma bear pumpkins, papa bear pumpkin and baby bear pumpkin. Sounds like we watch the bernstein bears. He loves that show.

This is Dave and Daniel cleaning out Daniel's pumpkin. He loved helping carve the pumpkins.

Finally Potty Trained!!

Well, Daniel is finally potty trained. I thought this day would never come as he had just been so no, no, no about it. I know that there was no need to really worry as he was not three yet, but I still worried he was going to be in diapers forever.

I did not really believe it when people would say that one day they will just say that is it, no more diapers. But I do now as that is what Daniel did. One morning he woke up and I went to get a new diaper and he said no diaper and since then, except for when sleeping he has been in underware. He has only had a couple of accidents and one of them was number 2 (lets just say that pair of underware got thrown away). He has been doing really well and telling us when he needs to go when we are out. I am happy he is out of diapers and that Dave and I get a pay raise.

Fire Fighter

We found out that they were having an open house at a Fire Station near where live so we decided to take Daniel there because he loves firetrucks.

He was so excited to see the firetrucks and to actually get to go into them. He also loves to pretend drive all the time, so he really really loved getting into the firetrucks and pretend that he was driving. Can't tell her is happy can you?

They had little fire fighting outfits tht they could get in. I think he looks so adorable in his outfit. Maybe he will be a fire fighter when he grows up.

Pumpkin Patch!!

We decided to go to the pumpkin patch earlier this wear than when we went last year. We were glad we did because it was a beautiful day out and it was warm. We went to the same pumpkin patch we went to last year. Daniel was so excited to go, he kept saying we are going to get pumpkins.

Here he is sitting with his pumpkins. He picked the tiny one. He wanted one that was small, so it was easy for him to carry.

So many decisions, which pumpkin should I get?

He enjoyed feeing the sheep. We tooking him to the petting farm at the pumpkin patch to calm him down as he was having a major tantrum because we took him from the play area, which had a play car and if you know him you know he loves cars. All he wanted to do was play with the car. So we dragged him kicking and screaming to see the animals and after a couple minuts he calmed down and forgot about the car. Then all he could talk about was the hay ride, which we did next.

He is sitting on a swan in the picture. I like this picture as he has a smile.

Dosen't he look so sad in this picture. I think he looks cute though. He wanted to pretend drive the boat, but a bunch of bigger kids kept running before him, so he could not.

He wanted to sit at this table, so I figured it would be a cute picture.

He loves going down slides, so when there was one at the pumpkin patch he had to go on it.

We did have a good time and it is amazing how different it was than last year. He has grown up so much in a year.

My Birthday

On my birthday the best gift I got was hearing Daniel say Happy Birthday Mommy. He even tried to sing Happy Birthday to me. Last year he could not say Happy Birthday.

Potty Training Progress

Well, I think we are finally making some progress towards potty training. Not really sure if it is just a couple day thing. I hope not. I have so worried that he is still going to be in diapers until he is five. I know that boys are more difficult to get potty trained than girls, but ugh. His cousin who is three week younger has been potty trained for live five or six months.

Yesterday and today he went poo in the potty. Today he went pee in the potty once. We have used a little bribery like you will get M&M's if you use the potty and that has helped. I know they say you should not do that, but please if it works why not. He also likes to be just like mommy and daddy, so tonight when daddy was going potty he ran to the other potty saying go potty like daddy.

Oh, Daniel will love when he grows up to know I discussed this with so many people.

Long Time No Post

Well, it has only been ages since I posted on here. I guess life took over. I plan to start posting on here more often now. I will post soon.

Peed on the Potty!!

Today Daniel peed on the potty all by himself. I was getting his bath ready. Daniel had already taken off his pants and diaper. I heard him in the bathroom and I thought he was getting in trouble, but he came out and said pee-pee. I went into the bathroom and looked in his potty and he did go pee-pee all by himself without any prompting from me. I was so proud of him. At this point I do not know if he is truly ready for potty training as he will only be 22 months old soon, but we will see if he shows more interest in the next couple of days.

What is Daniel Up to?

Daniel has changed so much over the past couple of months. He has had pink eye in both eyes, poor little guy. He is now better from that. He is growing so fast. He is getting so tall and his feet are big. He is now in a size 8 shoe. He was just in a size 6. He was in a size 7 for like a month. Oh, well, I guess we will just be spending money on shoes, since he does not grow out of clothes that quickly.

Daniel now can open doors. He can open everydoor except for the front door. He can even open our sliding glass door, which I wish he could not do. He can now turn the faucets on in the bathroom sink. He can take off all his clothes by himself. He can put on his pants all by himself, he can put his shirt on by himself sometimes. He is doing pretty good at using his utencils to eat. He just tried using a spoon to eat soup and did a pretty good job.

In the morning the first thing he does when we come downstairs is go to the refrigerator and say juice, juice for his apple juice. If we are having pancakes or waffles he will go in the cabinet to get the pancake syrup.

He can help take the dishes out of the dishwasher. He helpe me feed the dog. He will pour the dry food into the bowl and then get a spoon for me so I can mix the moist food with the dry. He then takes the bowl of food to the dog for him to eat. Also, when the dogs water bowl is empty he will get it and give it to me to put water in it.

He loves books so much. We must read or look at at least ten books a day. He has to have them with him in the crib when he takes his nap and when he goes to bed. We usually have to take one or two when we leave the house. He can pick out and say what a lot of the animals are in the book. He can also pick out alot of the other things in his picture books. We are working on his colors, but he is not doing that well with them. He is starting to pick up knowing what some colors are, but not that many. He knows how to turn the TV on using the remotes. I know great skill there.

He also has a love for the keys to the mini-van. He always goes keys, keys to get them. On the subject of talking he is doing pretty well there. He is saying a lot of words now. He is saying to many for me to list. It is so cute that whenever he sees Elmo he says Elmo. He also just starting saying Dora when he sees Dora (funny as we really do not watch Dora and he only has one Dora book). The way he says please is so cute as it ends up sounding more liking he is hissing. He has been saying I love you for the past couple of months, but he says it so cute as he says I "ove" you and then rambles something else after that, that we have no clue what he is saying.

When we are getting ready to go, he will go to the closet and get my shoes and Dave's shoes. Well, he is doing so much more that I could go on and on and on, but that would be way to long.

Third Time the Charm!!

Well, I guess the third time is the charm. Today we took Daniel for a way overdue hair cute. We have been avoiding it as the previous two times have let to crying fits and him looking traumatized after each haircut. Today he did great. He did not cry or move that much. I was so happy that he did so well. Maybe now I do not have to worry so much about taking him to get a haircut. He looks like such a little man with his new hair cut. I guess he really is growing up. I will have to post some pictures when I take them.

Loves Books!!

Daniel loves books. Now when most kids have a blanket or stuffed animal or something like that, that they call their binkie, Daniel has books. I knew he loved books when starting around 16 months or so he would always bring us books for us to read. Starting recently now he has to take a book with him everywhere we go and he has to have at least two to three books in the crib with him when he sleeps. For ahwile there one Clifford book he had was his favorite book and we had to read it to him 3-4 times a day. He does have his favorite books though. I loved books when I was his age as well, so I guess he got it for me. I am happy that he loves to look at books and have us read to him.

Pictures from Christmas!!

Now I was so excited for Christmas this year, as I knew that Daniel would be able to open his gifts this year. On Christmas Eve we did the whole leaving cookies for Santa. We let him pick out the cookies and put them on the plate. It was so cute as he picked out exactly four and said that was plenty.

This is a picture from when he first woke up and saw his stockings. It was so cute, he got a big small on his face and looked at us like are these for me. The dog of course had to be in the middle of the action.

Here he is looking at the play tool bench and tools my mother got him. He loves to play with tools. He loves to run around with his play drill.

Here he is opening one of his gifts.

Here is the gift that his grandparents got him. It is a whole tunnel/cube system. He loves it, but it takes up our entire basement as you can see it is hudge. He really loves the ball pit (the tall cube in the back).

Here he is playing with his new vacumn. It was like he was trying to clean up the mess. He loves to help me vacumn and he loves his doggie vacumn as it barks when he uses it.

Christmas went great, but it took forever for us to open all the gifts as everytime Daniel opened a gift we had to take it out of the box. Now any parent knows that to get any child's gift out of a box involves untwisting five million ties and removing ten pounds of tape. So needless to say it took us ahwile. Daniel had a great Christmas and that is what matters.

Christmas Family Pictures!!

Here is a cute picture of Daniel from our Christmas pictures. I love the look he had on his face. He was such a great little poser for all his pictures. Such a change from the would not sit still child from a year ago: Her is a family picture:

Santa Claus!!

Here is Daniel's picture with Santa. He was unsure of Santa, but at least he did not cry.

20 Months Old!!

So what is Daniel doing at 20 months. He is starting to get more and more interest in the toilet. Well, he should definitely know what it is used for since he thinks that I need help going to the bathroom and needs to be in the bathroom with me everytime I go. Yesterday he actually told me he had to go potty, so when I asked him if he needed to go he was trying to quickly pull down his pants. I got him on the potty and he went on the potty. He got to flush the toilet and he was so proud of himself. We are not potty training him yet, as we are waiting until he seems that he is truly interested in it.

He is my little helper and he loves to help me mop the floor. Also, he has this thing about dirt being on the kitchen floor. If there is a big piece of dirt on the floor he will uh-oh, uh-oh until I pick it up. He loves to help get the dogs food ready and then he will carry the food to the dog. He will help me bake cookies.

He will tell on the dog if the dog takes something he should't. It was so funny one day he just kept saying dog, dog. I was like yeah he is in the othe room. Well, he kept going on and on, so I went to look and of course the dog had one of his toys.

He is usually good about picking up his toys if asked, well that is except for his blocks. For some reason he hates picking them up. He usually listens very well, but he is a typical toddler and gets into a lot of trouble.

He loves, loves books and always wants you to read to him. I am very happy about this.

He has these two big dog stuffed animals that he loves and just recently has started to want to make sure that they are in the room he is.

He loves baths. We are working on his colors. The one color he defintely knows is blue. He is getting better and better about putting the items back into the shape sorter.

When you ask him how old he is her puts up his index finger to represent that he is one.

He has a interest in the sky at night now and loves to look at the stars.

He has changed so much over the past couple of months.