Here’s Tom and Dylan on Father’s Day! Dylan and I tried making a special breakfast — banana flapjacks and chocolate chip pancakes with strawberries served with some fakin’ bacon — but I’m just not as good a cook as Tom is (poor fella), so not only was the meal totally unworthy of a picture, it was also kind of mediocre. Not to fear, though. Since we spent most of the day celebrating Father’s Day with the family in the Bay Area and attention was “diffused”, we’re hoping to have a “real meal” and more focused celebration at Millennium this coming weekend! The real daddy’s day treat is still to come…!
We had a nice lunch at Sweet Tomatoes with mom and Grandpa Mike, Christina, and Cindy and Jeff and the kids, followed by some hanging out time back at Lola’s house…Dylan and Tyler just loved playing with each other, especially hide and seek!
Dylan also seems to have knack for making some solid progress on an important milestone whenever there’s an occasion…This time around, he did stellar on the potty and he’s been requesting to stay in cotton undies! He wore a cotton undie to bed on Saturday night, used the potty on Father’s Day morning and pretty much all day, including using it while we were at the restaurant (using the potty while we’re out and about is a huge deal right now).
He has continued to do extremely well these past few days. He’s even used his potty at school for the past two days in a row (another very big deal), and he took himself to go poop (pooping in the potty is another very big deal) on Monday after school.
Since Father’s Day, he’s been wearing cotton undies at night (if he wants to stay in cotton undies, he’s required to go pee before we go to sleep) and he continues to wake up completely dry in the morning. Now, he’s also being very good about going pee before we leave the house.
I’m not sure what the underlying motivating factors are in his sudden change of heart, but he clearly is now more definitely identifying as a “big boy”, even going so far as to suggest he sleep in his own room and in his own bed (he did fall asleep in the Pink Room, but he woke up around 1am looking for me and spent the rest of the night with us…).
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: hope this time the potty use sticks!!
