Its a Learning Process

Skating Lessons! Luke is in dark gray/black coat with lime green and Liam is in orange coat
Luke and Liam are the two in the back

More Skating

Coloring with Markers on the Ice

Daddy and the Boys

On Friday, we started potty training Luke and Liam. We have been talking about this for awhile with them and purchased our big boy pants, bought some candy for bribes, watched a couple of Elmo potty movies, and read several books about going to the potty. Both boys were more than ready to do this. In fact, as I read a book about how to potty train them, I realized that we were already on about Day 3 of the training process. We understand the concept of going to the potty and we can do it ourselves, but we are still working on when to go to the potty. If I take them every 45 minutes to the potty, then we don't have any accidents. If we get distracted or try to go places, then we run into some issues because they don't quite know how to tell us that they need to potty.

We are also learning how to skate and finally managed to get a few pictures at our last lesson. The boys have really improved in the last two lessons. They are now standing without assistance on the ice and moving a little. The teachers are very helpful and have lots of fun games that they kids really enjoy on the ice. They color on the ice and throw little balls to get them into the lessons. The hockey helmets, by the way, are courtesy of our cousins Zach and Seth who both play hockey. The boys like putting on the gear more than anything else right now.

Aiden is getting closer and closer to walking. He is still not walking on his own, but he will stand for a second or two and is not sure what to do next. He walks behind all of his push toys and will walk while holding your hand, but has not quite taken a step yet on his own.

Luke, Liam, and Aiden all had their three year and one year check-ups recently and they are doing well. Suprisingly (or maybe not), Aiden has almost caught up to Liam's weight. Aiden weighs 24.8 lbs. (31 inches) and Liam is 27 lbs.(35 inches) while Luke is a hefty 39 lbs.(38 1/4 inches). Aiden is 2 ounces heavier and a half inch taller than Luke was at the same age.