What do you do when on the potty?

Ever since we got Jory to poop on the potty, it's a big event. He comes running over to me or Ryan and announces, "I have to go poopieeeeeeeeeee!!!" So one of us, typically me, runs him to a toilet, gets the kid seat on the toilet and props him up so he can do his thing. You would think a child like him would want to poop and get on with life. Nope! He likes to sit there and sit there........ and sit there. Somehow he finds a way to entertain himself. Sometimes he will use his hands, which are really his convienient toys that he calls spiders, and pretends they are on rocket ships and fly in the air. Or they are Superman and they save each other from a fire. A long piece of toilet paper becomes a snake and slithers around his body. He can get quite creative. It's also a nice little break where I know where he is and he is safe. Occasionally he will 'accidentally' drop something small into the toilet and I get the lucky job of fishing it out. Generally, he will sit there for a good 10-15 minutes. He probably would sit longer if I let him.
 
The other day he was doing his thing and I went to go check on him. As I peeked into the bathroom I find him like this but with the entire roll done and holding the brown roll in his hand. 
I asked him in a very unhappy voice, "What happened to the toilet paper? Why did you do that?" and he answers me, "Because I need the roll for Ms Ilene {his teacher at school}. She likes it when I bring them to her in class!"

How thick is moms head?

Today we went to a Bat Mitzvah of our neighbors. We tried to get all sorts of things that they hand out that light up for Jory. They had rings, necklaces, cowboy hats. We were able to get our hands on a light up tamberine. This is not exactly a toy of our choice, but we took what we can get. Jory was playing with me as I was laying on the floor with Mira. She was climbing all over me trying to look at my earrings. Jory takes he tamberine and was pretending to cut all of my hair off with it. He then lays my head on the glowing tamberine, looks at me and then grabs my nose and my chin with both his hands and opens my mouth. As he does this he asks, "Is your mouth lighting up?

See, Cheerios do make you do great things

To our surprise, our little Mira has figured out how to go from laying down to sitting up all by herself! How cool is that? Soon she is going to be running and chasing boys. (Can you see the 20 hairs that just turned gray as I wrote that?) When I went to get her this morning she was sitting in her  crib with a big smile. I think she was very proud that she got herself to sitting all by herself and all before mommy came in to get her.

If I were you, buy stock in Cheerios

Within the past month I started to give Mira Cheerios and other hard mini finger foods like puffs and Gerber cookies. It is quite a show watching her eat them. I will put a small handful infront of her on her highchair and if you didn't know any better, you would think that this child is never fed by the way she dives into them. When the Cheerios hit the table, her hands move like the speed of light to grab each and every one. We are not talking one at a time, but she tries to grab all of them in the two, very uncoordinated hands that she has. After she has as many she could possibly hold, she attempts to shove them all in her mouth. Its amazing to watch her try so hard and only get a few in her mouth of the bunch placed in front of her. The rest either find their way on the seat of the chair, on the floor or within her clothes. The ones that she actually does get in her mouth but somehow fell out of her death grip always seem to get stuck to her clothes and it practically takes a crow bar to get them off. When you take her out of the chair the hail storm of little round O's is unbelievable. Its always fun to change her clothes and have a slew of cheerios fly out at you and all over the floor. She has recently discovered the art of jumping cheerios. When she is done stuffing her little mouth with them and wants a little break, she likes to bang her hands on the table and watch them fly in the air. This, to her, is quite hilarious. My dustbuster has been getting quite a workout these days. 

You just have to pick your battles

"Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Yes, Jory?"

"Mom, I just called you Mom, not Mommy. Ok?"

"Ok, but why?"

"You are Mom and not Mommy because I am 4!"

8 Months and 3 days ~ I'm a little late

Mira is now 8 full months old. She is getting really good at her form of crawling and can get from point A to point B in an unexpected amount of time. Its funny how sometimes I will put her on her floor while I run into Jorys room to get him dressed and we suddenly see this little cface at his door peering in at us saying "Hey, I want to join the party, too!"She started to eat puffs and cheerios and I swear you couldn't put enough infront of her. She will attempt to shove everyone in her mouth as fast as she can. She is alway suprised when she finds one stuck in the grasp of her fingers. She is still reluctant to eat as much solid foods as the docs would like, but we are still in the 'breast is best' stage of her life.She is growing up so quickly I barely want to blink. She is now 20 pounds 4 ounces and 27 1/2 inches tall. She is almost the same as her big brother at this age. He had an extra 1/2 inch or so on her.She loves her big bro and no matter how much he tortures her, he always seems to make her laugh. She loves to look around and explore. You can never get her attention in one spot because the world is so interesting She will look at the tiniest thing and use her pointer to touch it very carefully and if it is mobile, it will wind up in her mouth. You wouldn't believe the fun things I have dug out of her very inquisitive mouth. She absolutely loves the bathtub and splashing the water

Who is he talking about?

A few days ago Jory was putting on a monster truck show for me. His new obsession are these trucks and he growls and zooms and drives me up the wall with them. So as he was putting on this show, I had Mira on the floor and she was crawling away. Unfortunately she was heading straight for Jory's show. Now when you watch this video, do you know who he was talking about?