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I’ve taught my child a lot of words

Nicky now says so many words that I haven’t updated the list on the side of the page in probably a month.  He says “neh-neek” for “technique” when he’s going to sit on the potty.  He says “op-kee” for “ice cream”.  He says new stuff all the time and I can’t believe it. Oh, [...]

Technique

Whenever Nicky sits down on the potty by himself, I tell him that I like his technique.  He started to repeat the word, which comes out “nee-nek”.  Does the cuteness ever end?  (By the way, he says “coot” now for cute.)

Growth spurt

We measured Nicky on October 18th (about 3 weeks ago), and he was 30 inches tall.  We measured him again today, since we’ve noticed that he’s gotten a pretty good reach over the past few days, and he’s just a hair under 31 inches!  That explains why he’s been eating like a piggy and [...]

Favorite words

Nicky says so much stuff now that I can’t keep up with the list on the side of the website.  We all have our favorite words that he says:

Chuck – elbow Jen – pancake (it comes out “papke”, so CUTE!) Nicky – barrette (pronounced “brette” and he says it all the time!) Keanu [...]

Learning

Nicky really blows my mind these days.  Here’s what he’s up to:

He’s putting together phrases more now, usually “more” something or something “please”. We’re spending lots of quality time on the potty chair.  I’ve been having success about once a day, so that’s a start! Chuck brought an alphabet puzzle for Nicky when [...]

More photos

I just uploaded and captioned the most recent photos here!  Finally…

The Halloween ones are at the end.  Enjoy!

Halloween

Happy day-after Halloween!  We had a great day; Nicky and I went to the library in the morning and he got to show off his monkey costume:

Nicky Monkey

We put his costume on again to show the neighbors and trick-or-treaters later on in the evening and got a few photos that I’ll [...]

A world of training pants

Well, Nicky’s not potty-trained yet.  That’s okay with me…he does acknowledge the potty and sometimes he’ll even sit down for a second.  He’s also been making a habit of telling me “potty” when he’s about to go, so that’s a step in the right direction.  I honestly never expected anything like this so soon.

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It’s potty time!

Nicky went potty for the first time today!  I couldn’t believe it – I think I just happened to catch him at the right time.  He didn’t sit for very long at all before he pooped and peed!  Chuck wasn’t home at the time, and I was so excited that I took a picture [...]

So polite!

Nicky learned the word “please” last week.  It’s really cute when he says it – it comes out like “peese”, and he already understands the meaning.  He says it when he wants something pretty regularly, which I love!  I’m so glad he’s developing nice manners!