Potty Training Aria

We are now on day 6 of potty training. It was been a particular kind of torture for mother and child alike. Aria is the most stubborn child even to grace this world. I have done everything to make it a pleasant, rewarding experience for her. I have wrapped presents on the toilet. I have bowls of m&ms and jellybeans nearby. Yet she refuses. She even went so far as to sit on the potty, holding an m&m in each hand and finally I told her that if she was just playing around and not going to go pee pee that she needed to put them back. She gladly dumped the seemingly tasty treats back in the bowl to be free of the dreaded potty. She used her magical almost 3 year old powers to only pee one time, ONE time all day. She went to bed dry and woke up dry, 16 hours of holding her pee in. After my mother freaked out believing she must have an obstruction, I caved and gave her a diaper and told her to pee pee wherever she pleased. She peed in her room. She also managed to not poop for 5 days. Now, Aria is usually quite regular, so this was quite an oddity, again causing concern on the adult parties of this endeavor. When she finally did poop yesterday I attempted to use it, as the book says, as a training experience. We went to the potty, under where full of crap and sat on the potty. I then attempted to flick the poop into the toilet water, which was way more difficult than the book made it sound. I finally just had to dig my finger on the backside of a poop lump and scoop. All this poo scooping being done while a toddler leaned on me for balance in the big toilet. Of course my success at dislodging the turn was quickly squelched by the turd causing a backsplash as it plopped into the pool. A splash of delightful chemically blue toilet water that went directly into my eye. I let Aria down and pulled her soiled undies off just in time to notice I'd missed a chunk and it unceremoniously tumbled onto my bare foot. Poo water in my eye, poop on my foot.

Yesterday at about 9pm I knew Aria had to pee. I was determined after 5 days of living and breathing pee and day dreaming and real dreaming about the moment it went in the potty that this would be my shining moment. Finally at her breaking point, she literally couldn't stop holding her crotch without a little pee escaping. It was time. I took her to the potty, the big potty upstairs, as from what little I could tell, it was preferable to her over her own personal sized potty. I told her we were going to go and that it was going to feel so much better. Just real quick, let's do it. She resisted. She began to cry as I sat her on the potty. I held her there. Her cries got deeper and loader. As she bit her fist in a shriek of terror. The pee came out. Her other hand reached to block the stream. Then she was done. She refused her potty gift. Somehow it didn't feel like a win.

Happy 1st Birthday!

Well it is here they find anyone and Lisa made it through an entire year we just ended the party it's 10 PM and I'm laying in bed with Arya Patrick and Jamison honestly they had a lovely cowboy themed evening banana King dad meatballs salad rice ordures Carbocaine Emily and Josh Carey. I'll update more just wanted to say happy birthday to my big baby boys!!!

Easter, Egg coloring, Chickens, Aria Making Friends, Boys 1st Birthday Preparations

Hello there lovely,

My has the year flown by. We are closing in at one year already. Can not believe it. My sweet boys are so grown up. They are a little pack of all trouble. They crawl around the house getting into EVERYTHING! Jamie still speed crawls even though I'm fairly certain her has the ability to walk. He also site on his knees and hops across the room. Patch is my strong boy, he is getting faster at crawling and he also has started the knee hopping. Jamie can stand for long periods of time not holding onto anything and he can stand from the ground with out any help. I'm counting the days before he is fully mobile.

Aria learned how to blow bubble yesterday. It was so cute. She has tried for a while but never quite got the blowing motion, rather more of a lips together spit/blow. But Carlo came over and we played with bubbles and viola. Guess she just needed a little incentive to show of to her favorite boy.

Aria is talking a bit more now. Still not on level with where she should be, but she is saying a lot of new words. She said bubble and goldfish yesterday.

Aria loves the movie Frozen. It's really the first movie that she has actually shown a preference toward. Funny how it struck a cord with so many little kids. She is going to have a Frozen themed 3rd birthday party. She loves to wear capes and gloves now because Elsa does in the movies. She also loves braids in her hair, (like Auntie Dobby has), which Anna sports in the film. It's pretty adorable hearing her muttering away the song "Let it Go" all day long!

Let's see… I'm still not sure what color Patrick's eyes are, they are blue with brown in the middle, but a darker blue than mine, almost slate. We will see. Jameson definitely has brown.

I just sat down for a minute to update all y'all and the beasts a reeking havoc. Patch in the trash with dirty diapers and coffee grounds all over the kitchen and Jamie taking the fine china out of the cupboard. Alas, life. Kevin is getting a breakfast burrito with Aria. I wish I could up and just take one kid somewhere sometimes.

Steven and Kira are getting married on Saturday!! Aria is going to be a flower girl and Kevin and I are part of the bridal party. It will be a juggling act with all the kids but my parents and Billy, Gabby and Raph will be there to help!

Lauren and Mike asked me to be their baby girl, Hannah's, Godmother! I'm so excited! This is my first Godchild! Her Baptism will be July 27th in Irvine, CA. I'm hoping we can make a Disneyland trip out of it as well!

Aria enjoyed coloring eggs this year and hunting for them. She made friend with one of Craig's little nieces at the Easter party. They seriously played the entire time and Aria cried when her friend Iris had to leave. Iris was exactly Aria's age, her birthday is June 17th.


Until next time (hopefully be updating soon with 1st birthday festivities),
xo Rosie

Boys birthday invitation!

 My fancy return addresses ;)

Easter Pictures <3

11 months

Tubs can stand!!! He decided to stand for the first time while I was away for my first night ever from them at Kira's bachelorette party. 

Stats

Patch at 11 months

22.4 pounds

29.5" long

18.5" head circumference

Jamie at 11 months

20.0 pounds

29" long

19" head circumference

Aria at 34 months

34 pounds

39.75" long

19.5 head circumference

10 months

Patrick got a tooth finally!! It's his top right tooth. Funny that Jamie and Aria got bottom teeth first. This explains why he's been being so beastly all night long. He actually is cutting through a bottom tooth now too. Patrick is crawling now like a normal baby. He progressed very quickly from when we arrived here at Solomon he couldn't even sit. Now, just a month later he is sitting, kneeling, and crawling on hands and knees. He went though a small phase where he just pulled himself around with his arms and it was hilarious. He is still my rough boy. He loves to slap his hands on my face and grab things away from his brother. He is very loud. He loves to be held and I find myself avoiding eye contact as I pass him because he will insist on being picked up. Patch still has bluish eyes with a brown splash in the middle, we will see. 

Jamie is standing with no hands. He is very independant. He is starting to sleep for longer stretches at night, which is wonderful. He loves to make spitting noises with his mouth all the time. He is exploring many different kinds of food, including yogurt, bananas, and cheese. He still loves to much on Ritz crackers the best. He is so cute, whenever anyone picks him up he stares analyzing them in the face for a good minute or 2. He is less shy that his brother Patch. Grandma and Grandpa Corcoran are in town from VA and he let Grandpa (weak from a stroke) hold him without struggling for about 30 minutes. It was so cute. He was enjoying chewing on his cane handle, so that may have played a role in his contentment. 

Jameson Paul

 Patrick Christopher

We had our first outing to the park swings just a few days ago. They were a little tentative in the beginning but ended up loving them. They crawled around on the grass and had a blast.

Patrick and Jameson my Irish boys on St. Patrick's Day!

Can't believe my baby boys will be 1 in just a month and a half. It's unthinkable, how freaking fast this year has flown by. Amazing, crazy, hardest most beautiful year of my life.

Until next time, xo Rosie

9 months and counting...

Hello there lovlies. Patch and Jamie are 9 month old, almost 10. They are BOTH mobile! Jamie boy can crawl like a pro. He goes from sitting to standing with ease. He cruises on furniture, barely holding with one hand. Until last week, my boy Patch was still immobile. But low and behold, he started sitting, kneeling and army crawling all in a  matter of a few days. He is so very excited that he can finally play with the activity table that has been eluding him for months!

It's funny that even though Jamie is faster and more able, Patch is the boss. He literally drags his body across the floor like a baby paraplegic but when he gets to Jamie, he manhandles any toy Jamie has away from him. Poor Jamie it left crying many times a day because Patch decided he needed that shiny thing Jamie discovered. I'm not quite sure why Jamie doesn't just crawl away, as he definitely would win in a race. Maybe he's just doomed to be the submissive baby boy B for life, lol.

Jamie now had 4 teeth, 2 top and 2 bottom. I think he is teething more. Patrick has 0 haha.

I attempted cry it out the last 2 nights and I think it's backfiring. Patrick now wails louder than ever during the night. I even tried leaving them both to cry and sleeping, myself on the couch. Yet an hour later, the shrieking was still going strong. Life is exhausting, I'm at my wicks end with their sleeping habits.

Today is Ash Wednesday. I am going to try and not eat sweets for Lent. Day 1 so far so good.

I'm excited to take a St. Paddy's Day photo of the kids. I'm hoping to get some over suspenders and little shorts to go with their Irish shirts and clover baby leggings…. I haven't done a photoshoot since Halloween really, aside from 1 photo each for the Christmas card. I can't believe they will be double digits (in months) in 4 days! Ahhhh!!

I need to do a measurement and weigh in… soon.

We just moved into a new, bigger, house. Hopefully things will settle down now that we know we'll be here for a while.

We had our first play date yesterday with Emily, Carlo and Lucia (and new little baby Reginelli (circa Oct '14). It was so great seeing Aria running around and having fun with Carlo. Having a bigger space to play made it so much nicer! When they arrived, Carlo handed Aria a dandelion that he had picked from his yard. It was adorable, quite the charmer!

Until next time, xo Rosie

weigh in

Patrick 21.6 pounds
Jameson 18.8 pounds