Audrey's 2 month update and Potty Training

I don't have the pics on the computer to post yet, but I figured I would get the typing out of the way...

This past month has been very eventful for Audrey. She took her first airplane ride, found her hand (last week), and has not stopped smiling, cooing, and laughing. She was an awesome traveler and was awake for almost our whole flight from Portland to Ontario, and slept the ENTIRE flight and ride home from Ontario back to Portland. Raleigh traveled well too, but not as good as he used to. On the first half of the flight back home, Raleigh was SUPER tired from not having a nap and playing non stop all day, so he was a little annoying. He kept trying to sing the Darth Vader song as loud as he could! Anyhow, at 6 weeks Audrey started smiling and has not stopped since. She is a VERY happy baby and loves watching all of us. She will sit in her swing while I cook and she goes down to sleep (most of the time) on her own. She sleeps about 4-5 hours at night and takes a 3 hour nap with Raleigh. We moved her into her crib a couple of days ago and she seems to be adjusting well! Last week, she officially found her hand and was entertained by it for half an hour. She just kept looking at it and laughing and squealing. It was really cute! She loves her pacifiers which is good and bad, but she doesn't seem to need them as much as Ral-man did. She seems much more independent, but is still loving and cuddly. Raleigh has jealous moments, especially at naptime. If mommy is holding Audrey, then he suddenly wants to cuddle me. I use it to my advantage now and whenever I want him to cuddle me, I pick up Audrey and start paying attention to her!

As for Raleigh, we are in INTENSE potty training with him. We threw away his pull ups (except the nighttime ones), put him in big boy underpants, and have been following him around nonstop asking if his underpants are dry. I can tell he gets annoyed, but today (day 4 of what was supposed to be 3 days) he actually did a WHOLE pee in the potty. He stood up, aimed his gun and shot "like daddy." He did a poop with Trevor on the first day, but I haven't been so lucky and I have been cleaning poop out of underwear (which has to be the worst way to clean it), off of floors, and one time off of our bathroom cupboard (I still don't know how it got there). We are so proud of him and he was SO proud when he did his pee pee today that we had to save it to show Trevor when he got home. Since we have not been able to leave the house for longer than 30 minutes for fear of having a huge mess on our hands, Raleigh has been getting really restless. I feel sorry for him, but I know this will be totally worth it! Hopefully it won't be much longer before his accidents become accidents and not just the way it is. We are pretty tired of cleaning accidents, but our floors have never been cleaner! Oh, and a funny story...Raleigh had an accident in front of our french doors that lead to our deck. So, Trevor cleaned it up and as he was walking away, Gwyn came over and peed right over the spot where Raleigh did! I guess she thought Raleigh was trying to take over her territory! She hasn't done it again since then, but she has tried to lick it up (EEEWWW), so I don't recommend letting our dog give you kisses! She is a strange animal!

Speaking of Gwyn, she has adjusted to having Audrey in the house and she is no longer the nervous, crazy dog she was before. For the most part she ignores Audrey and me, and spends her time bugging Raleigh for the snacks he constantly has in hand.

Okay, it is really late and I have to get to bed before Audrey wakes up again! I can't wait until she starts sleeping through the night and our routine becomes easier to handle! It is tough running on no sleep!