It's Potty Time

 
Potty training weekend was unfortunately less of a success than we had hoped for. There were endless hours spent with Henry sitting on the toilet in the bathroom with us reading books to him or with him on the potty in front of the iPad, in addition to multiple accidents and outfit changes, and seemingly little forward progress. Henry seemed to enjoy the one-on-one attention and "game" of it all. The good news for us is that Henry is transitioning up to preschool over the next week. We are hoping that peer pressure with work to help convince Henry it is time that he gets rid of the diapers.

 

Lucas is now 6 months old and started on "solid foods" of rice cereal and sweet potatoes. He too seemed underwhelmed with the changes we are trying to implement. 

Regardless of the frustration of the McRitchie parents internalized this past weekend, Henry and Lucas continue to be adorable and sweet with one another and very loving to their parents. 

Growing boys

Lucas mastering sitting up

& waiting for spring.

Wintery Duck Pond

Snowman Fred

Henry has recently been pointing out snowmen on our drive home from daycare every day. He decided that we also needed a snowman at our house. I was really excited with the project and personally had visions of a snowman around 4-5 feet that towered over Henry. I knew it would take a while to make, so I started on the project during Henry's nap. Unfortunately the snow from our most recent snowfall is quite dry, and not great packing snow. After spending around 1 hour on rolling together a snowball that was not quite the size of what I had envisioned for the middle section of the snowman I knew I was either in for an all night project, or just needed to accept defeat on my first snowman challenge in 25 years and adjust... so, this is our snow blob, Fred! (Needless to say, Henry was just as excited about Fred as he would have been about the perfect snowman I had envisioned).

Our Valentines

Birthday party

We had a fun time celebrating Henry's 3rd birthday with friends at the Minneapolis Firefighters Museum. Henry and his friends were able to play in and on old fire trucks, demonstrate a bucket brigade and slide down a fire pole (in addition to being completely terrified by the docent giving us the tour whom very bluntly told them that if they were to catch on fire and did not "stop, drop and roll" might be severely injured or die). Henry and Lucas have also been very excited that cousin Jon came to spend the weekend with us and join in the festivities from Chicago.