our charming (little) man

alicia painted dylan's face today...cute!
Originally uploaded by coffywoman.

I didn't want too much time to pass before posting another little update on little Dylan (who is now declaring daily that he's a "big booooy")...! He started wearing undies -- we just swapped out his cloth diapers for some cotton training pants from Tiny Tots! And he really likes them, so much, in fact, that he didn't want to wear anything but undies to bed tonight (so, we put down a waterproof covering on the bed, doubled the undies up, and wrapped a diaper shell around him!).

He wakes up dry, probably 9 times out of 10, so we're hopeful he'll make it until morning...and then, hopefully, he won't delay peeing (as he sometimes does when he's too cold) until it's too late!

He's been making great strides in just the past couple of days. On Wednesday (our library day), about 5 minutes from the library, he told me he needed to go pee (so I asked him to wait, to which he responded, "I am waiting, mommy"!) and as soon as we got there, we whipped out his potty and there he went!

At school, the teachers have also told me that he's now telling them when he needs to pee and he's coming home in the same pull-up we sent him in!

The other day, he also put himself on his potty to go poo...twice!

We're, of course, thrilled and hopeful that the end of diapers may soon be near. And, we're very proud of our little guy. He just continues to make us smile every day!

playing in the dark

playing in the dark
Originally uploaded by coffywoman.

It's tough to see, but within the confines of Dylan's magnet tiles building, is a potty (and a few random "action figures").

This past week has been an eventful one. Among many other things, Dylan experienced his first power outage where he was actually awake and aware of it happening. At first, he really didn't like it and kept saying, "it's too daaark...turn on the lights," but once we got into the whole, "it's just like camping" thing (we used our camp lantern), he got comfortable enough to play just as if it were any other evening at home (can't even tell he's playing by lantern light in this picture!)!

Aside from that, he's been making huge gains recently with his own potty! He's even using it at least once while he's in daycare -- he says pooping is "tricky" and still mostly wants a diaper for this, especially at school. He did poop in his potty on his own initiative just last week, though. And, he's now using it pretty reliably in the mornings and before bedtime. We don't always catch the first pee in the morning because he's often too cold to want to sit on the potty, but he's been really good about using it before we leave the house.

Ok. This time, we really do hope it sticks. I hope I didn't just bad juju everything by mentioning it here!!

oh, yeah. we went to Tahoe

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Originally uploaded by coffywoman.

Holy smokes. It's been eons since I've updated, but it's not really for lack of news -- I won't bore you with the details.

We made it to Tahoe in late January -- Dylan's first real "memorable" trip to the snow. He loved it, except for when his little hands got so chilly because he didn't like wearing mittens!

He was so obsessed with scooping snow with sand toys, he ignored sledding for hours. When he finally tried it, I missed the photo op. =(

Anyway, it was a 4-night trip with Mark,Yu-chen and Ellie, and Heather, Assaf and Taliana involving a few trips out snowshoeing (Dylan had his own and was able to successfully walk around in them the second time out in them) and a lot of luck with the weather (we arrived to rain, got 2 good days of snow, and left in clear weather with no need for chains on the I-80).

Tom even got a chance to ski...!

This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip, taken on a brief snowshoe excursion to the lake from within Sugar Pine Point State Park. Aren't those faces so sweet??