Snow and Potty Training Success!

Yesterday is the first time that Rylan has really been able to enjoy playing in snow! It snowed here all day and we got enough to build snowmen. He wasn't as into building snowmen as he was chasing me around throwing snowballs at me with really good aim and quite some force! He must have seen a snowball fight on tv or something because he normally isn't allowed to throw things at people and he knew right away this was ok! We had so much fun!

Potty training has been a looooong process for us. I think maybe we waited a little too long to get really consistent with it because it is alot of work for us too or maybe we just have a really stubborn kid. Any way we have had about a week of success so far!

He has really fallen in love with a show called the Koala Brothers. I already blogged about it I think. Anyway it is a show in Australia or at least we thought it was still on because it has a website. But all we have is one dvd that Rylan wants to watch over and over and over. He has never asked us for anything until he saw the airplane from this show in the little pamphlet that came with the DVD. He said that he wishes that he could have that airplane. And he kept talking about it and looking at it (the pamphlet is all wrinkled and worn now) . He brought with us when we went to Quilcene for Christmas so that he could show everyone. Well finally Matt came up with the idea that we need to take away his privilege of watching Koala Brothers until he started going potty regularly. So we went a couple days with him at home going pants less and he used the potty and got his privilege back and we told him that if he went #2 in the big potty we would get him that airplane. Well that worked! Now we can't find that airplane anywhere because the show is no longer on the air and every place that used to sell it no longer does! I just sent a message to someone on Etsy asking if they could make a custom one out of wood. Fingers are crossed!!

Another show he likes to watch is called "Sid the Science Kid" it's a really cool show all about learning things like scientists. He told me today that he wishes that tv was real and that he could take Sid in the car and get the Koala Brothers so that they could all play together. Awww I wish we had it on video!