Summer Fun

I wasn't really planning on potty training Tyler until he was closer to 3, but he has been giving me indications that he may be ready sooner. He knows when he has to go and will sometimes tell me beforehand. After a week in the nursery at VBS, where they encouraged him to sit on the potty, he's been sitting on the potty almost everyday.  He hasn't done anything on it yet though. I am sending him to preschool one day a week this coming school year and the woman that ran the nursery during VBS will actually be his teacher. It's just one day a week, but I hope being in a classroom where the kids are encouraged to try the potty will be good to help advance our cause!  At that point, I may start to make more of an effort.

We've been having a lot of fun with friends over the last week.  We've had a playdate, or pool date, almost every day.  Last week, we headed into Arlington to meet my girlfriend, Regina, and her son, Frankie, at the pool.  This pool is located at one of the Northern Virginia Regional Parks, which is part of the system to which we have a summer pass.  We had never been to this location, but it was great!  They have two big slides, but unlike our usual pool, which dumps you out into 4 feet of water, these slides end in their own shallow slide paths.  That allowed Brennan to go on them!

Brennan was so excited to give them a try.  He was a little nervous the first couple of times, but then got comfortable and spent the majority of the time going up and down the slide.  For the first two hours we were there, the place was almost empty, so he didn't have to wait in line or anything.  It was great and he was loving it!  We have plans to go back tomorrow.

We met up with a few of Brennan's preschool friends for lunch at the mall yesterday to celebrate Kelsey's birthday.  Kelsey is having an all girl party at the end of August, but then had second thoughts and begged her mom to plan something for her boy friends.  We were supposed to meet up a sprayground for water play, pizza and cupcakes, but had to go for plan B - meet at the mall, due to rainy weather.  The kids still had fun and enjoyed seeing each other!

Yesterday was an errand day as well.  We ran up to the allergist twice (to drop off school forms, then to pick them up.)  We made returns at the mall, had lunch with Brennan's friends and got Tyler's haircut!  I have an appointment at Bubbles for Brennan on Saturday, but for Tyler, we headed to Cartoon Cuts.  I was so happy that he did so well again!  Hopefully this means he is officially over his fear of haircuts.

Our little guy is all cleaned up and ready for Uncle Pete's wedding in a couple of weeks!  Check out the potty picture above for the "before" shot!  What a difference!