More Adventures with Zach

I promised my dad that I would not post on facebook about potty training, but I made no promises about blogger, plus this won't make you want to smack yourself in your head.

I had Zach sitting on the toilet trying to go to the bathroom. He said he was getting uncomfortable, but I was not going to put a diaper on him because I knew he had to go. He was on and off the toilet and getting really whiny. Sommer was getting fussy too and I had to go upstairs and lay her down for a nap. Zach said he didn't want to pee in the toilet and I was dead set on not putting a diaper on him, so out of frustration I told him to pee in a cup. He walked around for a while holding a cup up very close to his boy parts. I went up stairs to tuck Sommer in and I heard him rustling around in the bathroom. I was swaying with Sommer to get her settled down and was thinking the whole time of all the messes he was making. Then I heard the toilet flush and said sorry to Sommer. She was just going to have to fuss it out because I was afraid Zach was playing in the toilet water. When I came down stairs to check on things Zach came running up to me saying, "PEE IN CUP!!! PEE IN CUP!!"

I said, "Let me see that cup," and Zach proudly handed me the cup. It definitely smelled of pee. While I was up stairs, Zach had peed in the cup, poured the pee in the toilet, and flushed it down. No messes at all. I couldn't have been happier than if he had actually peed in the toilet. But we are not making it a habit.

Other than potty training, Zach and Jacob have been on some fun outings lately.

I went to Minnesota with Sommer to visit my grandma and Zach and Jacob stayed home for the weekend. Jacob wanted to take Zach to a hot air balloon festival, but it was cancelled due to bad weather. Zach got a red balloon instead and Jacob searched for something else to do.

 They ended up in Downtown Boise after unsuccessfully looking for Donuts. Zach wanted to go into the state capital building because he thought it was church. Jacob took him and and they took a little tour.

This weekend Jacob took Zach to the Warhawk Air Museum just down the road from us, just for fun.

Earlier this summer we took Zach to a football scrimage. It was free and we thought he would like it. We probably we're close enough to all the action and he got pretty fidgety. A few kids behind us had some soda and he had to have "juice" too.

 Zach wouldn't keep his tongue in for a picture.

We love this little boy so much. I am going to miss when this fun age is over, but I am also looking forward to seeing who he will become.