Janet Evanovich Rocks

I am so excite that the new Stephanie Plum novel is out. I am lovin' finger lickin fifteen. All night Ryan was asking me what was so funny. I was crying I was laughing so hard. And I hate to read. But I can fly through these books. It's just so sad that they only come out once a year. I need to go to bed but it is so nice to have time to myself to just laugh and get caught up in their crazy world. I don't know how she thinks up this stuff but I hope she doesn't stop writing them any time soon!!!

Potty Training

I guess potty training is also a phase. I hope you only have to go through this once per child anyway. But this phase has turned out to be very entertaining. Other than constantly following my son around to see if he is going to do "the pee pee dance" because he is not at the point where he will actually tell me he has to go. We keep an Elmo potty in the back of our van. He is good at going in public bathrooms, but there are some I just don't want him sitting or touching anything in. So we were in a parking lot at one of those places and he was trying to go on the Elmo potty. There were people walking by but we were blocking him as best we could... not that he cared. When he didn't have to go we told him he was going to have to hold it until we got home. He jumped off the potty, stood up with no pants, grabbed himself and shouted hold it like this???? We laughed the whole way home.

How many phases are there?????

I thought all the baby phases were enough. Atleast they are cute and exciting! The toddler/preschool phases are not as much fun!!! We are almost through the nightmare phase... staying up late afraid to sleep, sleeping with every light and nightlight on, etc. I would have thought he was making it up except for the fact that he screams and cries every night in his sleep. I think this has played a part in the crybaby phase. I am about to loose my mind with the constant whining and crying. And the only advice I get is that "it is just a phase" So back to my question... how many phases are there????

Brothers

Ryan loves Owen so much... he actually gave him a big hug yesterday and said "I love you Owen". That is the best thing a new mother of two could hear. I was so worried about how Ryan would be with his new brother. He has never been jealous of him. He just keeps asking when Owen will be able to walk and talk. I think he can't wait for the days when they can play together and chase each other around. Ryan is always asking me to take pictures of the two of them together.