The month of May brought us maternity leave and Phineas... but Finn decided to stay in longer than the due date. And, it was fine by me. I had a whole week and a bit of maternity leave just like Oliver's. I got to sit around and clean the house and play with Oliver. It seems like we did sooo much in those 9 days. I did a lot of sitting around so Oliver sat with me in the living room and instead of just sitting on the couch he sat on his toilet. That week before Phineas we stopped using our diapers so often and went pretty much naked. The week Finn came home from the hospital and we did more sitting around Oliver only wore a diaper at night and for a nap and went naked. Week 3 of potty training was more sitting around, but a little more activity and so we went out of the house and wore underwear. Oliver successfully mastered the sitting down and peeing and graduated to standing and peeing. He made this move on his own, just decided to stand one day. Pooping is still a problem. Oliver says "oweee" and "huerrrts" while he runs to the toilet to poop but wont stay seated. We have one accident a day. Either in his pants or on the ground. Week 4, Oliver, after 3 hours (1 before church and 2 after) of sitting on the toilet Oliver finally went poop in the toilet.
Now that I think back. We started with a lollypop for every pee, and two for each poop, and after a week of such success we have forgotten those rewards. Now it's just a fun celebration. And, to switch things up a bit we taught Oliver to pee on trees. He loves peeing outside.
One more story. We were at church (ok, two more stories) the other week. This would be 4 or 5 weeks of this casual potty training. At church I was hanging out and talking to people after church, Oliver was sort of standing nearby and playing, eating, watching. He suddenly walked away, and I didn't think anything of it for a second, then realized that's his classic -heading towards the toilet move. I turned around and he was climbing a large planter/seat, pulling his underwear and shorts down just enough to stick out his penis and, whoallla peeing into the dark, tree covered planter area. I screamed "Ryan, look" and Ryan looking, along with everyone else around us responded by calling out "I am so proud of you". What a success.
The other story. Oliver has gone two sundays in the toddler room with just underwear on. I'm overdoing the preparation a little with three pairs of shorts and underwear as a replacement. These proved unnecessary. Last week, he just didn't pee. This week, he told Amy Uklea (who was working in the room) "pee" and headed towards the toilet... they have two sweet little toilets in the room. And he did it! Peed with someone else when we weren't around!!
Next steps: comfortable pooping. We're also talking a lot about peeing on an airplane and how fun that would be. We'll see. We're going to try underwear for the air travel. But... that's super getting ahead of what has happened in these pictures.
Ryan's nesting during maternity leave was to tear down the roof over the stairs and fix the leak. Our house has leaked since the first home-ownership rain. So while we waited for the baby Ryan opened up the roof and figured it all out, got it closed up beautifully again before Finn. To switch things up Oliver and I sat on the roof helping Ryan. During the demolition, Ryan tore down drywall and beams and roof and Oliver stood by the trash can and picked up large pieces to throw them in. He filled up a whole big trash can. After demolition Oliver learned how to sweep up after Ryan and to screw in screws using the battery powered driver. He could screw them into a piece of wood, flip the switch, and bring the screw back out. He was pretty good with a hammer too.
This busy boy didn't stop with construction, but took breaks to sit with me and fish off the roof. A few weeks before we met Eric and Aimee at the Belmont Pier and actually fished, we even saw a sea lion and threw fish to him. Since then, Oliver has wanted to fish everywhere... off the roof, out the car window, in the living room. He catches yellow fish, sometime purple fish. And after the sea lion, I found Disney's Oceans on Netflicks and we've been watching the sea lions and other underwater creatures.
This is us fishing. Oh, so scary off the roof, but we kept reasonable regulations of distance.
Oliver has only snuck up onto the roof once on his own. Just joking about casually saying that. It scared us soo badly. We teach him too well how to open doors, locks, and other dangerous independent access points. Thank goodness he listens to us and is mostly obedient about following directions. No major casualties so far.
And, now that we love all nature, Oliver can't wait to find another snail like this one. He has no fear of picking up bugs or snails. I guess disgust at slime is a learned response.
I don't know where April went this year. Since these blog posts are all guesses of the right date somehow April got squeezed out. What we missed wa
Ryan's nesting during maternity leave was to tear down the roof over the stairs and fix the leak. Our house has leaked since the first home-ownership rain. So while we waited for the baby Ryan opened up the roof and figured it all out, got it closed up beautifully again before Finn. To switch things up Oliver and I sat on the roof helping Ryan. During the demolition, Ryan tore down drywall and beams and roof and Oliver stood by the trash can and picked up large pieces to throw them in. He filled up a whole big trash can. After demolition Oliver learned how to sweep up after Ryan and to screw in screws using the battery powered driver. He could screw them into a piece of wood, flip the switch, and bring the screw back out. He was pretty good with a hammer too. 
This busy boy didn't stop with construction, but took breaks to sit with me and fish off the roof. A few weeks before we met Eric and Aimee at the Belmont Pier and actually fished, we even saw a sea lion and threw fish to him. Since then, Oliver has wanted to fish everywhere... off the roof, out the car window, in the living room. He catches yellow fish, sometime purple fish. And after the sea lion, I found Disney's Oceans on Netflicks and we've been watching the sea lions and other underwater creatures.
This is us fishing. Oh, so scary off the roof, but we kept reasonable regulations of distance.
Oliver has only snuck up onto the roof once on his own. Just joking about casually saying that. It scared us soo badly. We teach him too well how to open doors, locks, and other dangerous independent access points. Thank goodness he listens to us and is mostly obedient about following directions. No major casualties so far.
And, now that we love all nature, Oliver can't wait to find another snail like this one. He has no fear of picking up bugs or snails. I guess disgust at slime is a learned response.
I don't know where April went this year. Since these blog posts are all guesses of the right date somehow April got squeezed out. What we missed wa
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