Thursday, May 21, 2009

It's that time already!

Guess what we're doing!
Here's a hint:


Potty training! We're on day two and that's her travel potty. :) I've been loading her with juice pops and watermelon but discovered that it goes a *lot* better when we're outside. Happily, the weather cooperates.

We've made some pretty good progress. This photo is from tonight when she told me she had to potty in the middle of dinner. Yay! And yes. The potty is in the living room.


For the most part, Autumn is taking this in stride. The whole potty training thing hasn't really affected her daily play. Like dressing up.


On a completely different note, we had a girls/guys night last Friday. The girls and I did Twilight and sangria here while Mike joined the guys at Cathy and Eric's house. I actually just found out that he didn't do it but Mike initially told us he was going to head over there like this:


Either way. I have the moment saved for posterity.

Oh, yeah. Miss Autumn went to the doctor Friday. She's a healthy monkey with a big heed. Autumn's 22 pounds and 32 inches tall. Interestingly, this puts her in the 15th percentile for height and the 3rd for weight. Her head percentile? 50th. The doctor insists that it's just the charting method--a centimeter more and she'd be in the 75th, a centimenter less and in the 25th. But still. We all know she has a big noggin. Her mama does, too. All my ski gear was extra small. Except my helmet. That was a medium.

Monday, May 18, 2009

of birthdays and birthday gifts

Click here to see a few of the photos Elizabeth Wiggs took at Autumn's birthday party. There's some more great ones that I'll probably post when I get them but she's posted a great sampling.

Also, A Very Monkey Tea Party:


Uncle Brad and Aunt Lauren bought this for Autumn and it's been a huge hit with her! She will sit down and insistently pat the floor saying, "Sit! SIT!" until I sit and then she'll serve me tea, quite properly, for a ridiculously long time. Haha.


She'll also take the tea party on the road. Autumn puts the tea set in her backpack or in her doll stroller or the doll carrier and strolls/carries it around, stopping occasionally for a pretend sip. :D


Funny enough, she likes real tea. I think I've mentioned this before, but we have tea almost every morning together. She's graduated to a cup now, though.