Bryson: I turned big!

 Sunbeams + Underwear = BIG!

 

 Can you believe he is in Sunbeams?! (Sunbeams is a children's class on Sunday's at church.) Our Bry has to say good bye to nursery at the beginning of the month and he was NOT happy about that! He cried the whole way in. Nic sat with him for awhile. I was told that he was the "helper." He helped our fabulous singing lady, he helped do the spotlight (on Hannah), he helped give announcements... basically everyone was so, so nice to him and let him be their "helper." He had a substitute that first week, but the next week his teacher was so good with him. She knew his name and let him sit on her lap. He still seems to go back and forth between his teacher and music leaders lap... If not there, he's NOT sitting, but standing around and usually wiggling. I asked him today what his favorite part of Primary was and he said wiggling his ears, stomping, and spinning around... I'm assuming that they were singing Do as I'm Doing! He's just a little guy... but he's getting big!

And since we were doing big, we decided to go really BIG... potty training! We wanted to wait until the holidays were over. Then picked a week that was low key and we could stay home - no carpool, no helping in Hannah's class, not a parent week for music class, no helmet appointments for Easton, etc, etc! That happened to be the week of January 16th. I have to say I was pretty nervous about it. I thought Bry would be extremely hard... but HE HAS DONE AWESOME! I am so proud of him. In fact he has heard me say this so much, that when he goes I'll say it and he would say back, "I'm so proud of you, Mom!" Ohh, what a cute kid. Or sometimes he'd say, "You're so proud of me!!!"

Really?! Bry getting Lightening underwear in his stocking. He really was excited!

He really has been a pro. He's had less than 5 real accidents with "tinkle." As for the other, twice he had a panicked, red face as he realized "it" was coming out. Then we had 3 days were he didn't go "stinkies" at all. The first day we drank a lot of water and had a lot of practice. It all clicked so well. I've been so impressed with how he'll run in from playing outside or stop eating a brownie to run to the potty with no coaxing from anyone. He really is big!

Bryson is so fun to watch and listen to. He loves to pretend to be Lightening or Buzz... and the sound effects are awesome! If not pretending himself, he's down of the floor playing with his gazillion cars. One of his motivations for learning to go potty was a "little Mater" and a Cars dishes set (for him to eat with). He even like to "snuggle" with his cars when he sleep. Occasionally he has ALL his cars in bed with him and after he falls asleep we have to go in and remove them, because we hear them every time he moves at all. Sounds cozy, huh!?

Once he realized I was taking a picture of him, he had to get all the cars in the picture.

Sorry I couldn't choose just one. He's just too cute and this is our everyday! (Notice the sweater too!)

This kid is so active and so into EVERYTHING! He keeps us on our toes. He keeps us moving. Keeps us rolling our eyes... keeps us pretty frustrated. Keeps us feeling loved and needed. And keeps us laughing.

When telling my mom about going potty he said, "I turned big now!" We are so proud of you Buddy! Good job being big. Love you to pieces!