SPICER FAMILY: January 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Too much t.v.?

Tonight Cory and I were sitting on the couch watching t.v when the NBC chime sounded during commercial break. All the sudden from across the room we hear Kallon say, in perfect pitch might I add "N B C." Cory and I just looked at each other and started laughing. It was so funny, it's not like we watch a lot of t.v especially while Kallon is awake. When he is awake all that's on is Backyardigans, Diego, or Sesame Street. It just goes to show that we really need to be careful what we watch I guess! Or maybe we really do watch too much t.v. !:)

Friday, January 16, 2009

Potty Training: week 1

We started potty training Kallon this past Monday. On the Saturday before we went to Walmart and let Kallon pick out juice and a few treats that he wanted for rewards. He chose pri sun juice pouches (capri sun), pink lemonade, M&M's, honey bears (gummi bears), and I threw in some chocolate covered rasins(which he will not eat). Anyway Monday morning we woke up and I have him sit on the potty, nothing. All day he sat on the potty in front of the t.v. for an hour at a time and nothing happened. Although I did make the mistake of putting a diaper back on him after every attempt on the potty. So everytime I went to put him on the potty his diaper was soaking wet! He only went peepee in the potty one time Monday. Tueday morning same story so I said the heck with it I don't care if he is potty trained and I let him run around the house naked. This seemed to work. I let him bring the potty in the front room again for a while and he was on and off of it all day, nothing happened. There were many, many accidents on the carpet but good thing it's just an apartment we rent! Finally Tuesday night he went peepee once. He was so excited he started jumping up and down before he was all the finished and sprayed our entertainment center and t.v....gross. Wednesday I let him wear his Lightning McQueen big boy underwear and told him if he peed in them Lightning would be sad. He wore those around all day with a tee shirt and I would remind him every 2o minutes or so that he needed to go potty. He did really well. He only had 2 1/2 accidents that day. How do you have 2 1/2 accidents? Well lets just say his eyes went really really wide while eating his lunch and he said "mom, I goin' poopy." What!!! I told him to run to the bathroom so he did, only half of his buisness ended up in the potty. Ohwell it was his first time. Thursday was really good. Only one accident and he would only need a little reminding, I think he was on a sugar high yesterday with all the rewards he got. Today, Friday is going great! I don't even have to remind him really. All the sudden he will stop playing and run to the bathroom and a few minutes later I will hear the little song the potty plays to alert there is a surprise waiting for me to clean up. I just have to go in and help him wash his hands and put his underwear back on. He is doing really well and I am so excited. Tomorrow we are going to have him go on the big potty. That means no more cleaning the dirty little training potty, that thing really grosses me out, I think I wipe it down with bleach about 3 times a day. Kallon is catching on pretty quickly. He is doing a lot better than I thought he would and he is so excited everytime he goes. This is dirty business but somebody's gotta do it, right!?

Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas and Baby Blessing

Our Christmas was fun this year. Cory's family came down for the holiday and stayed for a week and a half. We had fun hanging out together, traveling, playing, and visiting old friends in Austin. Cory's parents rented a house in San Antonio that we all stayed at so we could be together and hang out. Kallon was spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa Spicer and Santa! He was so funny Christmas morning when he saw the presents he didn't know what to do. He was also so excited to open his presents, he especially loved his mega blocks and when he had gotten enough of the wrapping paper off to see what it was he started jumping up and down saying "I love it, I love it." It was pretty funny. We packed so much into the week and half everyone was here. We visited Austin, went to Sea World, went to the Alamo, the River walk, went shopping, and had many yummy meals, oh and also we enjoyed our 70 degree weather!!! We also decided to bless Kate while we had family here to stand in with Cory. We blessed her on December 28th. Cory did a wonderful job. Thanks to my mom who stayed up late fixing my old blessing dress so that Kate could wear it. She looked beautiful! Kallon still loves his baby sister and can't get enough. I have to fend him off all day long. I feel bad keeping him away but he has been sick and so has Kate and I really don't want her to get it again. Hopefully Kallon will get over it quickly so he can really enjoy his sister. We had a great holiday and we are very grateful that we could spend it with family. I am posting pictures to show what we did instead of writing it all.