Carly is 9 months old and Caleb poops!

Caleb is now officially a big boy.. he pooped on the potty yesterday for the first time! Read here for the complete story.

Carly went for her 9 month checkup this week, and is now 17 pounds. That's about 20%, a vast improvement from three months ago when she was just 13 lbs, 12 oz, and 4%. Both kids got flu shots, as well as Greg and me, and everyone is feeling good. Here are a few pictures.

Carly's face thing.

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see how it stops at the midline on her nose? weird.

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Caleb in his "unnerwear"

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Caleb's poop reward

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Carly walking behind her push toy. Caleb is talking in the back ground about his pajamas and underwear.

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Another walking video. The commentray is not as good in this one.

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Update on the skin weirdness

Today was a pretty normal day. Carly's face did that same thing once in the afternoon, after she's been crawling around on the floor, then had a poop and got changed.. she is currently in the hate part of the love/hate with the changing table, so she was pretty worked up. I'm thinking now maybe it's sleep/stress related. But thank goodness each one has been very short-lived. This evening Greg noticed her little nipple on her left side was swollen a bit bigger than the other one... related or not, we do not know. I'll check her again in the morning, and then probably call and ask if we should be concerned. I now little girls have hormone surges, but I thought it was only at birth. And one-sided? Weird again.

Nerves and Faces

Carly's face broke out into a really weird rash this afternoon, only on the left side of her face, stopping at the midline, and her eye got swollen and weepy, so I called the doctor, and at first he prescribed something and told me to bring her in first thing in the morning. I drove up to CVS to get the prescription he was going to call in. They didn't have anything, so I picked up some Motrin and came back home. In the meantime, while I was at CVS Greg took the kids outside for a walk, and Carly fell asleep sitting on his arm. That is not normal for her, although she did have a short-ish nap today. Just after I got home the doctor called back and said he'd talked to an associate in infectious diseases and he decided he wanted to see her right away. This was at 6pm! Gotta love the small town family doctor! So I ran her up there and (of course) by the time I got there the rash had almost gone away, but he could see where it had been and her eye was still swollen. He wasn't sure what it was/is, but wanted to rule out some things. His best guess is that her fifth cranial nerve got irritated somehow and caused the left side of her face to get red and blotchy. The strangest thing is he showed me in his anatomy book where the cranial nerve runs, and those were the exact spots her face was red. SO WEIRD. She also has a mild ear infection, which he said possibly irritated it, but long story short -- we have no idea. Her face blotched up for about an hour and a half, then went away. My family is always having some kind of skin/face issues it seems.

Seriously!!

I am feeling really beat down today. We started trying potty training today in full force. No more diapers. My stubborn kid refuses to pee on the potty. He can control himself, so well, in fact, that he can hold it for HOURS to avoid peeing on the potty. Around naptime he had drunk a full sippy of juice and needed to pee so bad he was crying that his stomach hurt. So I figured it was his bladder about to burst, so I put him back on the potty, and he trickled a little, for the first time EVER, then did it two more times. I put a pullup on him for nap time, then he started freaking out again saying he needed to potty. By this time he was hysterical and standing in the bathroom and squirting every time he let his breath out. He just couldn't hold it anymore. So back in the pullup he went and I closed him in his room, about to cry myself with frustration. (This was the after fifth pair of underwear in one morning). Minutes later he came to his door and his pullup was FULL. I mean the guy held in a whole bucket of pee for about two hours.

Anyone have any advice on how I can get him to just let go and pee on the freakin potty!? I don't understand why he won't do it. When he did pee, his little potty makes cool noises and he got about 100 hugs from me, stickers, AND goldfish. With all that good loot, why won't he do it again? Someone who has done this before help me out! I am at my wit's end, and it's only been 12 hours.

I am right now listening to a repeat performance at bedtime. He's already 30 minutes past bedtime, and hasn't peed in almost 5 hours!

Up to no good.

Draw your own conclusions.....

Ok, so they weren't really up to anything, just playing together. But aren't they so stinky cute!

A couple more:
Goofy face:

Carly's favorite place:

"Hmmmmmm, maybe I'm stuck. It's kinda hard to move with my cheeks weighing me down."

Carly's second favorite place:

I love this

And then, the East Texas State Fair:
Caleb petting a goat:

Caleb petting a goat's butt:

Carly thinking how lame the ducks were.