Oh the joys of the TERRIBLE TWOS!

Yes, someone has taken over my sweet little man and turned him into one heck of a prize fighter. Our newest hobby - hitting or should I say punching anything in his way at the time he is not happy. This could be a wall, a door, the blinds, or the bathtub. I just know we are one fit from the ER! In the midst of the Terrible Twos we are also trying our hand at potty training. Patrick can tell us "I'm wet" or "I pooped" so we figured it's time to get a potty and some training pants along with additional stock in Pampers (have you seen the price of Pull Ups!). So I figured on the weekends at home we would use the Gerber cloth training pants....9 pair should be plenty for one day....I'll just wash at night....WRONG! We went through 9 pair in 3 hours! Also, it is much cooler to pee all around the potty but not in it! Oh the joys of having a son! During the week he wears Pull Ups and has gone a few times on the potty at school. So we have had some success.

Oh, and now we can open doors...we discovered this when he was throwing a tantrum this weekend when we put him in his room for time out. We leave the gate up at his door, so I just put him over the gate and walked away. Well he closed the door and then opened it. I figured he must not have closed it all the way. Well later as the tantrum continued and I attempted to give him a bath, he opened the bathroom door and try to make an escape. So we are going to have to deadbolt the exterior doors now.

We hope everyone is doing well. We are anxiously awaiting the birth of our newest nephew - Ben. Only three more weeks to go. We have been practicing with Patrick - "Baby Ben" and he just about has it down. Though our phrase of the week - "Go Mama Go". I never said he wasn't demanding!

Love
LeAnna, Matthew, and Patrick