Mommy and Daddy's Birthday Celebrations

Ryan and I have birthdays within 15 days of each other, mine in May, his in June. About a month ago, my family came up for my birthday weekend to celebrate with me. Ryan took me out on a date Saturday night, and then Sunday was spent with my family eating birthday cake, opening presents, and reupolstering the chair. Here are a few pictures from that weekend.







Then just two weeks later, it was Ryan's turn to celebrate. Hazel's parents decided to take on the Orin challenge for the day so that Ryan and I could go on a date. We had to get some shopping done for vacation, but then we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening at a movie and dinner. Here are a few pictures of Ryan opening his presents the next day with his little helper.

Orin

New Props

Playing with Mama's new props! I have a new floor, rug, ladder, and basket/container to work with now. And in a few days I will be receiving many new newborn props...now I just need a baby! :)

Orin isn't a very still subject to practice on, but he still makes it pretty fun!

Going Poopy

This ornery little boy has pooped in the potty 5 times over the last 6 days. We missed Sunday morning, because we were in a rush to get out the door for church.

I started putting him on the potty during the first week of June when I realized that he was pooping every morning right after breakfast. And since it is a much easier and less time consuming clean up if he goes in the potty instead of his cloth diaper, I decided to try it. After just a few mornings of not going or only peeing, he started pooping within the first 5 minutes of sitting on the potty. Success!!! Now every morning, after breakfast, we walk to the potty so that Orin can go poopy. At this point he gets lots of praise and no reward, because he doesn't fully understand what he is even doing yet.

I am no where near ready to potty train him, and he is definately no where near ready mentally. But this is a step in the right direction! Yeah for not having to dunk poopy cloth diapers in the toilet!!!

Muscles

We are pretty serious about muscles around here...can you tell?

Big Shoes to Fill

Somebody has big shoes to fill.
Somebody wants to be just like his daddy!

Young Love

Hazel was Orin's little playmate the other day while her mommy worked. These two are quite mischievous and busy! But they play really well together, and they love to give each other hugs and kisses. We need to keep an eye on these two as they get older!