Recent Shots of a 4 Month Old!!!

I don't know if I blogged this, but he is over 4 months now, 1/3 of a year, he has been here for that long!

Oh and he is just sofa king cute. and getting cuter and more fun everyday. He loves to laugh and is so talkative, just like his brother was. He can tri-pod himself up well and can't wait to sit up more on his own.

He is loving toys and entertains himself for longer stretches, laughing and what not. He loves seeing his reflection in the mirror or metal bowls for that matter.

and oh how big he is, growing so much. He is very long, I think that he will be taller than A is. We are pretty sure that he is responding to signing, he arches his back and gives us his hands when we sign up. And he is rocking the elimination communication as far as we are concerned. He wakes up in the middle of naps, pees, and then goes right back to sleep...
All and all a pretty awesome boy.

A Little EC Talk

I have discovered that as elimination communication has become a part of our life, typical baby clothes suck, which really sucks as we have all the clothes we need for R from A- the special bonus of having kids at the exact same time of year. But EC is different, we need to have pretty easy access to the diaper to remove it to quickly respond to R's cues, this means on most days I don't dress him, but I am trying hard to downplay the white trash look of my baby and he drools so much that one onesie wasn't really suffice for a day... enter my first t-shirt. I modified a pattern that was a little girl cardigan and added a cute tree aplique.

The neck is a little wide, but this was the prototype. Now my baby can be cute in a t-shirt and diaper. And really isn't that what it is all about? Being cute. And trees just rock. I am working on an owl for a yellow shirt.

Super easy project, craft nigth success, it is rare these days that I get to finish anything. I also completely paid all of our bills today. I have been trying so hard to do that since Friday, it only took 15 minutes and it felt so so good to sit down and start something and then be able to finish it.

Peeing on the Potty

You may have expected with a title like that, that Asher would indeed be the star. But this post stars our other little one. River has been loving our new baby bjorn potty and pees on it about 5 times a day now. We may be setting a new record today though as he has already peed 5 times and pooped once on the potty and typically he goes more on the potty at night.

Elimination Communication is something we came across when A was probably 3 months old. I had once read a little bit about incredibly early potty training in a book at the coop and dismissed it. But then I met a couple of moms and dads practicing while A was a babe and was interested but going back to work didn't pursue it. Prior to River being born I got a book and while it was incredibly lenthy with essentially the same thing being said in different ways I began to understand the concept and decided to give it a go with River.

I am not a diligent person, so I didn't think anything would come of it unless Ben stepped up, but with minimal work, we have had a pretty magnificent response. Plus he just looks so cute on the potty.

Asher is humoring us by sitting on the potty. I hope to have him potty trained by the end of the summer but am getting no sign from him that that will be the case. He did pick out the potty chair and is proud of River for going potty on it, but he himself does not want to pee on it. Hopefully that will change as we spend more time naked outside this summer. He has bee holding it longer and peeing in bigger pulses, requiring additional inserts in his diapers, and actually woke up dry this morning. I think these are all signs of his readiness. Fingers crossed.