pictures!

I think Vaughn might rip off ii's head!

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pictures - finally!

It is hard to post pictures for me, because Tony thinks our home computer can't handle such big files. I need to learn how to put them in our back-up storage soon. Here are some pictures from Nana's camera.

Hooray for Happy Meals!

On Sunday night after a fun trip to Lukie's house it happened. Vaughn, Brock and I had loads of fun visiting Nana & II at Karla's. When ever Vaughn is at Lukie's house he and Luke become obsessed with the potty chair. Lucky for Karla, Luke is the younger more impressionable one! :) We left Lukie's house and needed to eat. I hate to cook, so I thought McDonald's was the healthiest option. For those of you who don't know the happy meal toy now is the 6 hot wheel cars. On the way home I told Vaughn - do you know when you need to poop? We discussed what it felt like and I asked him if he thought he could go when we got home. He agreed for the car that he would go poop in the potty. When we got home, he ran inside and found Tony who put him on the chair and the rest is history. If anyone would like to record the date it was October 12th in the PM.

vacation destination - north dakota?

Brock has now successfully made his 1st trip to Nana & ii's house in ND. It was an uneventful trip :) I picked up Vaughn from daycare and we made it to Monticello to McDonalds. Vaughn is all about the car toy with the happy meal (another blog entry to follow with details). My attempts to give Brock a bottle in McDonalds went up in flames. Apparently, it is funny to laugh at you Mom when she tries to give you a bottle when you are a breastfed baby. He kept looking up at me an smiled when the nipple was in his mouth like he was saying - "Mom I am smarter than this - give me the good stuff" In preparation for a long trip to McDonalds I bought Vaughn a sundae which I thought he might share with me. The Danielson food gene has won again. I have successfully passed down the gene to be possessive of food to Vaughn. He downed the whole sundae himself and then went looking for my fries. So, far our trip to ND has been o.k. Brock is fussy. I think he is getting used to the new enviroment. Vaughn and Nana played outside today. They took the wagon out to the sandpile (volleyball court) and left their friend there to play in the wagon. Oh, didn't you hear the scream from ND? Nana found a mouse in the wagon who had been making his new home in a blanket. Now it is II's turn to get the mouse out of the wagon. Many pictures to post soon to detail our trip.

Fort Making

Vaughn has become obsessed with making forts. Lucky for him we have alot of cushions on our couches. He like to make "spaceships". His spaceships will go to Canada, minneapolis, and the zoo. He and Tony will make them on our porch too. On another note, this morning was the 1st morning that Vaughn woke me up and said I need to use the potty! Maybe we are making a breakthrough! I was beginning to lose hope on becoming potty trained. Last night we visited Luke, Aunt Karla and Uncle Dan and it seems to me that when he gets around Luke the potty chair is the cool thing to talk about. Last night, Dan got up to the bathroom and Vaughn already had his pants and diaper off. I think that if you can take your diaper off and put your pants back on it might be time to retire the diaper! One can only hope!

smiling!

I can't remember if I had written this one or not, but Brock has been smiling alot lately. It started about a week or so ago. I think he even has a small dimple too. We went to the doctor a few days ago to get a weight check - for Brock and Mommy! I had my follow-up appt and have lost 26lbs! Apparently, Brock is taking them all away! He has gained 4lbs in 1 month! He went from 8lbs 10 oz to 12lb 10 oz. I thought the carrier was getting heavy!