2nd time is a charm.

2nd time equals success in the potty training world, at least for Lukas. It all started on Saturday when he came into the living room and out of nowhere announced he wanted to go pee pee in the potty. I said okay and he went. Then I put him in big boy undies and told him that we don't like diapers and he was a big boy now. Well there has been no turning back and he has done AWESOME! We are now down to about one accident a day. He can hold it for hours now and even tells us about half the time that he has to go. I do make him go if it has been a while and sometimes he fights me but we usually end up with him going. We have even gone out to the store and he has stayed dry. He even went to the bathroom at Sams Club today even though he said the toliets were scary and loud. He just covered his ears and went like a big boy. He even managed to stay dry all night last night and immediatly asked to go to the bathroom this morning when he woke up. He sai,d "I went a lot daddy." It is sort of funny because on Thursday I asked the pediatrician about this. He said he would come to me and not to worry about it until he was four. I was thinking WHAT, four! He said don't make diaper changes fun change him on the tile ect. I never thought he would actually come to me and then keep going at it. I am so proud of Lukas and his progress.

I think Lukas should be the next guitar hero model. What do you think? ;) Yes, his mattress is in our living room. He is refusing to sleep upstairs and since Dan threw out his back we weren't able to have him get use to it this weekend. Hopefully in the next few weeks. However, he might just be using his room to play in for a bit.

Lukas got a superman/batman cape for his potty training reward. He loves it and thinks it is super fun. He looks adorable in it.

Acid reflux

As most of you know Blair spits up a TON! It is pretty obvious she suffers from acid reflux. Luckily she is a happy spitter though and rarely cries. We had her on prevacid and the Dr. told me it would help with pain but not the actual spitting up. Sense it was kind of expensive, and she never cried, and didn't seem to need it I took her off. I just figured why give her unecessary medicine if she isn't crying and will possibly grow out of it soon. She hit her six months and was still spitting up a lot and I just figured I would give it a little longer. Well she is still spitting up like a champ. I got to thinking and thought maybe this is why she is such a horrible sleeper. Nothing seems to help her sleep and she RARELY even takes a nap. I ended up calling the Dr. and taking her in. We decided to put her on Zantag. I am really hoping this works and helps her sleep better. She has only been on it since Thursday night so we haven't seen if it will actually help the sleeping and actually help her spitting up. He said it would probably take a few weeks to see if it helps. I am tired of the spit up though that is for sure. I am glad we are trying something else. He said if this doesn't work then I will have to resort to the special formulas designed for babies who spit up a lot. I don't feel extremly happy about that since this will cost twice as much as her Gentle Ease formula she is now on. Hopefully this works and we can get her improving some.

Both my kids got their flu shots that day too. They were really brave even if Lukas was a tad bit dramatic by making me hold him afterwards while he proceeded to hold his leg up in the air.

On a little different not Blair LOVES wipes. Seriously if she finds a container of wipes she goes to it and gets some out and then puts them in her mouth and holds them there and crawls around with them in her mouth. It seriously cracks me up.

Lukas's kids

For a while now Lukas has been telling us he has two kids. We would ask him what their names are and he would say, two, four, six,seven and eight. We just sort of laughed and said okay. Well we "caught" Lukas talking to one of his kids the other day. Appraently he has a few imaginary friends. One of his kids/imaginary friends name is Thomas. It is really cute. He tells us he doesn't know where Thomas lives but he is his kid. He asks Thomas if he wants to eat and if he wants to take Tubby's. Dan and I act like he is real and include him in our family activites. Lukas's imagination is starting to sky rocket and we love it and think it is hilarous.
On another note this boy is learning how to give GREAT prayers without any help. He prays every day at dinner time. He never forgets to thank Heavanly Father for the food and bless it. He also prays for others which include his grandma and grandpas, Blair, mommy and daddy, his aunt Staci and his aunt Suzanne. One time though he prayed about medicine and prayed he wouldn't have to take it anymore because it was yucky. We have NO idea where that came from because it has been a while since he has had any sort of medicine. Silly boy. The praying sure does make me a proud mommy though.

New Room

We cleaned out our "Storage room" aka room where we put all the things we didn't know what to do with and made it into Lukas's room. Blair and Lukas sharing a room just wasn't going over too well. Not when Blair is such a horrible sleeper, no matter what I have done to change this. Lukas has started refusing to go to bed and has resorted to temper tantrums. We haven't been able to at least take him to his room and say goodnight and try to get him to sleep because we were worried he would wake Blair (she is in bed before Lukas's bed time.) up with his tantrums. It resulted in Lukas sleeping or at least falling a sleep on the couch a lot. We figured we needed to give Lukas his own room. So we went to work. Well mostly Dan did he cleaned it out and I found room for things and went through a few boxes ;) I did scrub the walls though. Lukas helped Dan a lot cleaning and finding treasures. We figured the more he helped the more excited he would get about having a new room. He loves his new room and loves playing in it and hanging out in it. Sleeping in it not so much. He said he was too scared to sleep in there. We did put him in there after he fell a sleep last night. He stayed in there till he woke up at three in the morning screaming for Dan. Dan ended up sleeping by him. Tonight he said he wanted to sleep on the couch. We will let him sleep on the couch till Dan is home again on the weekend to help him get use too it. I can't be by him and Blair so I am okay with that. I am sure he will get use too it and enjoy it. He doesn't do well with change so I am surprised at how well he likes having his room up there too play in. Now I just need to get some decorations for both kids rooms since Lukas can have a boyish room and Blair can have a more girly room.

Lukas loves this race track. I bought it for Dan our first Christmas after we were married. This is one of the treasures he found. Now he is always asking to play his vroom vroom car game with daddy! He keeps it in his room so Blair won't get it.

7 months

Little miss Blair Bear is 7 months old! She is growing so much and is cuter and cuter everyday.She is crawling all over and causing mischeif. She is also now pulling herself up on anything and everything she can get her hands on. She is starting to cruise on the furniture. She loves to eat and will eat anything you allow her to. She is always begging for food. If your eating you better believe that Blair is right there trying to get a taste. She loves her "Puff its" (This is what Lukas calls gerber puffs.) and baby num nums. She is very self entertaining and pretty much just crawls around and plays with whatever toys Lukas is sharing at the moment. She loves her big brother and he loves her too. She is also very tolerant of his mean moments as well. Lukas is lucky to have such a a patient sister. She loves bath time and splashes and laughs and has a good time. She still spits up a lot, it seems to be getting better but not as much as I like or hoped. If she is still spitting up this much we will be talking to her ped at the 9 month check up. She is starting to sleep better and take better naps. We still have night time troubles but the past few nights she has been sleeping better and we are getting sleeping through the night a few times a week. I will take whatever I can get! We sure do love our Blair Bear and can't believe how big she is getting.

She loves watching Lukas.

One handed!

This is pretty much all we can find her doing lately. She thinks she is so big crusing and pulling up.

Caught ya!

Today after church I fed Blair and put her in the crib for a nap. I could hear her in there playing but I knew she was tired and just left her in there. It got quiet and I went to check on her and I found her completly standing up in her crib. She looked at my like she was saying you caught me mom. She is so silly. I guess it is time to lower the crib mattress.

sleeping

Lately we sure have been loving it when Lukas has been doing this. He has been on one lately thats for sure :) He has been fighting nap time and bed time and so when he is finally sleeping we let out a big sigh.

I love it when he sleeps like this it is so boy!