Oliver and his family of Bobots...

Oliver built this family of bobots out of legos. He made a Mim one and a Daddy one and a Wyatt one and an Oliver one and even a Jasper one! Of course, there were extras so he said those were Wyatt, too.

Oliver/poop update

I broke down and called the doctor on Tuesday. She told me to give the boy Miralax and fiber. She also said celebrate every poop no matter how small.
I tried it and it worked almost immediately! He's back to pooping without screaming! He's not afraid of the potty!
The only downside is that now he wants to go poop all day long. I have stopped giving him laxatives so hopefully that'll help but yesterday he pooped 6 times!
Anyway, he's back to normal and hopefully he'll stay that way.

On another good note Oliver's potty issues have helped Wyatt get more interested in the potty. Every time Oliver goes he wants to go, too. He had a dry diaper most of the day yesterday and has only pooped in his diaper today, no pee!

I got the bluuuuues!

Bob gave Wyatt his harmonica to play with and he loved it. He did really well figuring out how to blow in and move it to make different sounds. He was too cute carrying this thing around. Needless to say it was VERY slobbery when he was done!!

playing with "squish"

Oliver's potty troubles have made me be more creative with his sitting on the potty time. Today we got out "squish" aka playdough. Oliver made this smiley face,

this bobot alien (yes, BOBOT - it's not a robot!!)

This is excited Wyatt, he puts his hands up like that and squeals. It's so cute!

Here's Oliver playing with the fish I made. The one on the left is Squish Fish and the one on the right is Daddy Fish. He's making them smooch. As you can see by the look on his face he was making the sound, too. Smoooooch!

making Valentine's cards...

Oliver wanted to do a craft project so we whipped out some markers, stickers, glitter pens and construction paper to make Valentine's cards. Oliver drew smiley faces and flowers, I was quite impressed! He even "wrote some words" on one of them - although it is just squigly vertical lines it was really sweet.

Wyatt drew on the cards, too but more haphazardly. He looks like he'll be a lefty, too, just like Oliver. He seemed to have fun picking out stickers and drawing.

Oliver told me what he wanted on each card and I wrote it in. He was very proud of the end product.
Now I just have to find some appropriately sized envelopes and get some lovey stamps...

Another post about poop

Oliver has been having poop issues. He holds the poop in until he's so grouchy and in such pain that it comes out whether he wants it to or not. That's usually every three days or so. In between times he's very grouchy and has no energy. After he finally poops he's the happy little boy we all know and love, but then after a few hours it's back to the grouch who refuses to poop.
We've been giving him laxatives to try and help him. It also has a stool softener so it won't hurt him when he does go. It makes him need to go but he's so strong willed that it still takes three days of grouch to get it out.
He says it's scarey to poop. He said it doesn't hurt, he just doesn't LIKE it. We make a huge deal about the poop when he does it - the song and dance, the treats, the fun activities that are reserved for after poop. Nothing seems to help.

look at that face!

Wyatt has a sweet face, but why is it always dirty?!

random cuteness

Wyatt's Christmas jammies

These are the jammies that Aunt Rachael got Wyatt for Christmas. They are very warm! I just wish the boy would keep socks on.

Little painting Wyatt

Wyatt also painted, he did a bird house. He had fun sticking his fingers in the paint and getting it EVERYWHERE. He also really liked dipping the paintbrush in the paint. He was not so interested in getting the paint on the wood pieces.

Here is his finished product. Very pretty!

The painter..

One of the things Oliver and Wyatt got for Christmas was a set of wooden models that they can paint. Oliver painted and put together a car. He was very careful with the brushes and did a great job painting!

He's definitely loving arts and crafts. Here is the finished product!

Little piggy...

I made strawberry yogurt for the boys. I guess Wyatt liked it!

Also in eating news:
Wyatt was munching on a banana when he stopped mid-bite, held the banana up to his ear and said "hello?" I wonder who was calling him at breakfast time!

For the record we've never pretended a banana was a phone, he thought of it all by himself!!

Wyatt in training...

I put Wyatt in training pants for the first time since he's been doing so well peeing on the potty. Unfortunately he decided to mess the pants shortly afterward. I put the training pants project on hold until he's trained a bit better.

He's just too cute in these little pants, though!

It was warm a few days ago...

It really was quite warm so we went outside (with no jackets!) to play for a while before Bob got home. The boys wanted to do yard work, go figure! Wyatt tried to rake some leaves with the tiny rake but really he just ended up moving them around. Oliver pretended that popper thing was a mower and off he went up and down the yard. It looked like hard work!


Oliver is such a poser. This is Bob's hat so it's way too big but he wore it after Wyatt threw it off. I wonder what he's thinking...

new washer and dryer!!!

Wednesday after a long hard day at work Bob went to pick up the new washer and dryer at Sears. He then spent several hours getting them in the house, building the base and installing them. Finally they were done and they look fantastic!

The next morning I ran the test cycles and they seemed to be fine so I washed everything I could get my hands on. I even washed our bed pillows to see how the bulky/bedding option works. My pillow smelled so fresh last night!!

Today I'll be finishing the laundry and finally dressing the boys in clean fresh clothes. I'll also have to go out and pick up more laundry detergent. bleh! Maybe we'll make a trip to the toy store for the boys, too.

New year's resolution

One of my resolutions this year was to cut out all artificial sweeteners. It's turning out to be insanely hard - a lot harder than I thought it would be. There is High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything!
One trick I've learned is to shop the edges of the grocery store and make short "away missions" into the middle for items that are really necessary.
There's not a single gum in the checkout aisle that's not made with aspartame. There's even HFCS in jelly! I finally found a low sugar jelly that's only made with sugar and it's the best jelly I've ever had! I've found them in spaghetti sauce, pasta dishes, frozen entrees...all kinds of things you would think were safe really aren't. I've actually cut down on all types of sweets just because they are all made with those artificial sweeteners. Now a treat is a banana, an apple, maybe a sweet potato with cinnamon. Instead of waffles with syrup we have waffles with berries or yogurt. Instead of boxed macaroni and cheese now we have homemade - with REAL cheese! We still have sandwiches but with less sugar. No more sodas in this house, just 100% juices - and we water those down 50/50 to reduce the intake of regular sugar.
I've already lost 3 pounds on this "diet". I just read an article that says adults eat 22 teaspoons of sugar every day. Do you think that's impossible?! Keep track for a day - every 4 grams is equal to one teaspoon.