Self Portrait

He got a hold of the camera...

St. Pattys Day

Well, my St. Patrick's day wasn't all green beer and lucky gold, I got two sick kids instead, and a St. Patrick's day party with my mommies group. Colin had to stay behind with his grandpa but Lucas and I got to "party."

Cute little leprechaun, isn't he?

The Good, The Icky and the Green

So we had a great day yesterday!

The Good: COLIN WENT PEE PEE IN THE POTTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! YAY! We've been talking to him about it for quite some time, read books about it, we watch an Elmo DVD about it, etc.

We ask him every night before bath time (when he's already naked) if he wants to go pee pee in the potty. He always says no and we're fine with that. But last night, he was IN the tub and told us he wanted to go pee pee in the potty. So we got him out, dried him off and stood him in front of the potty training urinal we bought him. He stood there, grabbed his pee pee like we've showed him and said "Wait." He didn't seem to know what to do, so I told him he had to push out the pee pee. So he said "Momma help." I laughed and told him I couldn't help, he had to do it on his own, so he turned to Dadda and said, "Dadda Help." And then...he peed! We all clapped and we made a VERY BIG DEAL out of it. He got to put a sticker on his chart. (Every time he goes pee pee in the potty he gets 1 sticker, poo poo gets 2, when he gets to 10 stickers he gets a new puzzle.)

Colin's sticker chart, and a proud boy!

The Icky: 2 minutes after going pee pee in the potty, he went poo poo on the floor. One battle at at time.

The Green: Lucas had his second day of peas and he seems to LOVE them, which makes me happy because I love all kinds of peas! So far the little monkey hasn't turned down anything we've offered, he has now had: rice cereal, avocado, and peas YUM!

Baker Park Play Date

Last week we went to the park with our good friends Johanna, Camden and Grayden. Johanna took some great photos (she usually does...and we love her for this) and I wanted to share.

(Most of the captions courtesy of Johanna as well)

4 Bakers, 2 Swings

Monkey in a Swing

Here comes trouble...

Romeo, Romeo, where for out thou, Romeo?

Four Bakers

A Moment I've Been Waiting for for 2 Years and 3 Months

Colin told me, "Love You" all on his own last night. I laid him down and tucked him in and just as I was leaning in for a kiss he said it. It was kinda funny because at first I thought he said "yellow." So I asked him "yellow?" and he said nuh huh. I said "love you?" and he did his little giggle that means "yes."

I left the room with a tear in my eye.

Then and Now

This is Colin with some of his best friends from our mommy group. The one on the left is one year prior to the one on the right. Same friends (minus Alec), just one year later, look how much they've all changed! Thank you to Johanna (mom of the twins, Camden and Grayden) for this wonderful photo.

Big Brother, Little Monkey

Here a few photos I've taken of the boys together during February.

Sweet Bubba Kisses. 2/2/10

Gramma! 2/19/10


Hold Bubba. 2/23/10


Baker brother's bubble bath! 2/28/10