Can I hold him (Tucker)

Brandon has become obsessed with holding Tucker and will even ask "Can I hold him please?" How can you say no to that? It's the cutest thing:)

Potty Training

Sooooo Brandon is getting closer to being potty trained!!! This past weekend when we were home we had 1 accident in total! He can successfully go #1 in the potty:) He will even let us know when he needs to go...... and then after he goes he is super excited and says "I peed in the pot!"! We wash our hands and high five as our celebration.

This didn't just happen over night so here is a little back story:

Starting back when he turned 2 in October, he seemed so interested in the bathroom process so we decided to buy a mini toilet and a seat for the regular toilet. (Basically anything you could find for potty training) Well that interest lasted about 1 day.... Even though we kept encouraging Brandon to go to the bathroom on the potty he kept saying "no" then it turned into "NO, I don't want to!" So when I was on maternity leave for Tucker I decided that I would revisit potty training. I kept him naked all morning and that basically turned into a meltdown every time I tried to sit him on the potty. (I tried this 3 seperate times) The end result was him running up to me with a diaper saying "I want this on." So once again I decided that it's not the right time and would revisit when he was ready. So recently we have made some progress......Wednesdays at Grandma's he has been peeing in the potty a couple times so we decided that this past weekend we would go full out with underwear. Finally.... we have had progress!! 

Obviously he isn't fully potty trained, but we are getting somewhere:) YAY!!! Cheers to less amount of diapers soon (i hope)

Tucker's Baptism

Tucker was baptised March 9 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Gainesville, VA. It is the same church Brandon was baptized at. Tucker's god parents are Auntie Kendell and Uncle Jarred. We had a wonderful celebration with some family and friends! We truely are blessed to have such great people in our lives.

Tucker 3 months old

Tucker is 3 months old and he certainly is starting get quite the personality. He is really tickelish, especially when you tickle his sides and under his chin. The coos, smiles and laughing are the best part about 3 months old. Plus he is so cuddly... it really is so easy to just cuddle up next to him on the couch and take a nap. Those naps are hard to come by these days since Brandon has been running around like crazy. Brandon loves his brother a lot! He will sit next to him and touch him and gets a kick out of him smiling back at him. Brandon also loves to say "tuck stinks" when Tucker has a dirty diaper. It's funny:) We are also working on potty training with Brandon, he has successfully pottied a few times in the potty but has had many accidents! Hopefully by the time summer rolls around he will better trained. Can't believe that Tucker is growing so quickly, you forget how fast they change in their first year of life! Sometimes I would like to just freeze time.

Brandon Counting

Brotherly love

Brandon has taken lots of interest in his baby brother Tucker more than ever before. I think he is starting to realize that this little guy will be playing cars, running around the house and being his "partner in crime"before we know it! He certainly loves to hold Tucker and will actually say "i want to hold tuck, please, please, please" It's so cute:)

A little update on Brandon- he has really started stringing more sentences together and it's incredible that you can have a conversation with him now. It seems like over night that happened. He can also count to 15, we are now working on the ABC's. I must say a lot of the apps on the I-Pad help him a lot with counting and spelling. I think he works the i-pad better than Josh and myself. He actually will play Tiger Woods golf and I'm sure he will be better than his daddy soon.

Tucker is going to be 3 months old tomorrow, it's so hard to believe that he will sleeping in his crib soon:( He has started "talking" and smiling a lot and I love this stage where they start recognizing you and your voice. So precious.

The pictures below were taken Feb. 18, so I'll update some pictures of Tucker tomorrow:) Now that I'm back to work, it's quite hard keeping up with the blog- but I'm doing my best!