Family Life – Page 64 – a hippie with a minivan

Diaper Free… (mostly)

Of course now that I went and bought some new covers that actually fit, Colin decided that his potty strike is over and that he wants to use the potty again on a regular basis… Hey! it is cool with me!!!
So he has been going diaper free more and more and is getting potty independant… he still can’t get underwear off by himself but leave him bare butt and he heads for the potty sits down and does his business…. there are some misses of course but less and less and some bad positioning at times but he is happy to be going diaper free… and so am I….

I didn’t keep up as much as I wanted to with EC… and then when Colin started his potty strike we just lost the habit… he would scream, cry and arch his back whenever he was on the potty… the only time that he wouldn’t was the morning pee, so I kept the morning one for quite a while but he refused at other times in the day…However, I can see that even though we lost the habit of going often he didn’t lose the habit of knowing when he needs to go and he still has control over it… something that Xavier has to relearn because of contant use of diapers.

Next baby will be a different story though. EC from Birth and Diaperfree as much as we can.

Pics to share….

Last weekend I found umbrella’s on sale and bought 2 for them… this came at the perfect time since the rain is comming (though you wouldn’t guess with the snow we are having today) and Xavier has been asking for an umbrella…. the same day that I bought it it rained a bit and he went outside for a few minutes to try it out…

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Here is Simon doing some housework with Colin….

When he bends down Colin’s feet can touch the floor LOL

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Xavier and Colin got some bath toys at X-mas…. one of the toys had bath crayons with it… Colin is great with them and Xavier… well he gets a bit “over-zealous”…..

Notice the big “A”‘s

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Like I said, Last Sunday was Simon’s Birthday… Xavier asked if he would have a Darth Vader on his cake like the Cake Xavier had for his birthday last year.

So Simon asked me to put the Darth Vader on the cake for Xavier and also wanted me to put the little “Dora” figurines that we have to make Colin happy…

Well… It wasn’t that big of a Cake and they didn’t all fit so I decided to just put Vader and Dora….

So I had a Vader figurine in one hand with his lightsaber ready to go… and I Dora in the other hand with a Party hat and her Hands up in the air… and decoration icing in the pantry…..

it was just too perfect and I couldn’t resist….

and of course Boots….. poor boots….

Long walk…

This morning we went to a recreational park that isn’t too far away from here… we had gone there a few times near the end of summer/early fall and then stopped for whatever reason… I plan to go quite more often….
It was a really nice day today… though there is still quite a bit of snow on the ground the weather was quite mild and you can just FEEL that spring is coming… Feeling spring is one of my favorite feelings… It just feels like new things are coming, life is coming back… I really think that I do suffer at times from seasonal depression… my moods are always very in tune with the weather outside… the last week the mild temps have given me a new found energy that I lost for a while…

So we went on the walking trail (there are a few cross country skiing trails also) and we started walking… Colin was on my back and Xavier was just walking next to me most of the time… when we got to the end of the trail I took Colin off my back and let him walk.. he walked about 7/8ths of the way back, a few times I stopped and offered to put him back on my back and he didn’t want to… near the end he started stagering and falling more often, I again offered and again he refused…. he played along the way, getting a stick at times and “drawing” in the snow, colapsing onto snowbanks and examinin trees and animal tracks, both boys were having fun… finally Colin fell while walking and just stayed on all fours for a few seconds… I asked if he wanted to go in the backpack, again he said no… but then laid down on the ground, face down in the snow… I picked him up… he cried a bit… he wanted to walk more but jut couldn’t… I told Xavier to run and I would catch him and that made colin laugh and we walked back to the car…

Xavier was also getting pretty tired near the end…

Just before we got to the car I checked the park map to see how far we had gone.. I seems that we walked about 3 km which means that Colin walked a bit over a KM over hills and everything… pretty impressive I think….

A little walk in the Park….

We had fun this morning going for a walk in the Park..

First we got to the park and played in the structures a bit and then went up the hill and found a little “house” that some kids made with branches…

Xavier thought it was really cool…

He made up a little story that he was the Daddy and that he had to build a fire… so he stacked up a few branches infront of the “house”… he then found a stick and went back into the house to find Marshmallows…

Colin stayed around a bit and watched Xavier attentively for a while… and played in and around the house for a bit…

But then went off to explore by himself… he actually went pretty far, once in a while looking back making sure that we were still there…

We then walked a bit more and and followed Rabit tracks and ski-doo trails, bird prints and a fallen tree… While we were following the Rabbit tracks Xavier found a Rabbit hole and we stayed there for a few minutes while he hoped the Rabbit would pop out…

Walking back home Colin fell asleep on my back… and I had an issue of Mothering waiting for me in the mailbox so I sat in the snow while Xavier played on the “mountain” in the front yard and had fun jumping off the Cliff…