The novelty is definitely wearing off, so Mel and I aren’t going to force the issue. She still goes everytime we put her on her potty which is really only once or twice a day, but now she wants to clean it up quickly after. She hates to have anything in her new potty. She immediately says, “DIR-TY” and wants to clean up her “mess.”
I knew after last night, McCanless would never use her potty again. I was wrong! This morning, before Mel dressed her, he sat her on her potty and she went again!!!!!
She also said, “I love you” for the first time today! It actually sounded like “I-lus-shoe.” Mel was walking out of the door and yelled out, “I LOVE YOU” and McCanless just yelled it back to him!
Mom says that this picture looks just like me as a child…so I had to post it! (Finally, she is beginning to look like I could quite possibly be her mother)
I really didn’t expect this at all but lately, McCanless has been telling us when she goes “poo” or “tee tee” in her diaper. (Sorry about the baby talk) So just for fun, today I hauled the baby potty out of the attic. (Sarah gave it to McCanless a while back when I assumed potty training was far, far away)
I thought she would just play with it and think it was a new toy, so tonight when she actually used the potty, I just about had a stroke! It was the first time she sat on it with her diaper off. I’m sure it was pure luck, but nonetheless, SHE USED THE POTTY! I almost cried. I jumped up and clapped and she clapped and kept repeating, “tee tee in potty, tee tee in potty!”
I’m almost 100% positive that this potty training thing can’t be this easy, so although she has used the potty once, it may be 4 years before she does it again. I’ll keep you posted…
It is quite the fancy baby potty with a magazine rack and TP holder!
We spent the 4th of July in Hilton Head with Mimi and Bobpa!
McCanless’ first fireworks show! She loved it! “BOOM” she would say!
This was earlier in the day. We went to a children’s show on the harbor. She had a great time singing and dancing with all of the children.
McCanless loves to play with her “jewels”
Little piggies…
She gets so silly sometimes…she loves to hear herself laugh.
McCanless and I have been so busy this summer. I have many more pictures to share with you, but these days I’m finding very little time to do anything. I’ll get them posted at some point.
McCanless is all over the place! She is growing so tall and is beginning to put words together to form sentences. Today, she was attempting to shove her doll in her stroller and became very frustrated. (I’ve noticed lately that she has NO patience) She looked at me with a very stern face and said, “Baby too big.” She loves to find bugs and look at them, but wouldn’t dare touch them or get too close. She says, “oooooooh gross!” and “BUUUUUG”
Today, as we were about to flush a spider that we found, McCanless said, “Kick, Kick, Kick in POOOOOOL.” I guess she thought the spider was having a nice swim in his pool.
She is a social butterfly and such a chatterbox! She waves and speaks to anyone that passes her. She will suddenly stop anything that she is doing and say, “HI DADDY…HI DADDY…HI DADDY..etc…” until Mel looks at her and says, “HI McCanless.” When she tells you hello, you must look at her, acknowledge her and return the gesture! What a little bossy thing she has become.
McCanless loves to dance and Mel says she looks like a drunk performing an African tribal dance, but it looks like beautiful, graceful baby ballet to me!
She is so sweet and loves to give hugs, kisses and zerberts! What a fun, cutie pie she is! We love her so much!
First, you start with a bit of paint…
and get it everywhere!
at least we were on the front porch!
