Where have we been?

Well, nowhere exciting, that's for sure.  Just holed up in our house, trying to stay warm and dry.  Dan is especially trying to stay dry because we potty-trained a couple of weekends ago.  I did a version of the 3-day method and it seems to be working pretty well.  He's in underwear all the time (except for naps and nighttime) and so far he hasn't had any accidents when we're out and about.  Around the house, he gets so busy with playing or reading that he occasionally forgets that he has to go until it's too late.  But I feel really great about his progress and I'm thrilled that he was ready to be trained at the same time we were ready to train!

The weather has been pretty cold and dreary here--about six inches of snow a couple of weeks ago, which shut down coastal Carolina for a few days.  I think our county has maybe one snowplow, so we just had to wait for our street to melt.  Thanks to Granny Rash, Dan can play in the snow in boots now, instead of wearing trash bags over his shoes!

Ben is five months old today and on the verge of rolling over.  Personally, I think he can do it and is just lazy.  He's also working on sitting up, but I think we're a couple of weeks away from that one.  He's a lot more interactive and he loves to watch his big brother.  I cleaned up and assembled Dan's old Exersaucer so I have another place to plop Ben when I can't hold him.  But he definitely prefers to be held, that spoiled buddy!

For some reason, I can only upload this one picture from today!  Dan put the pacifier on Ben's head and it actually stayed there long enough for me to snap a picture.  I'll keep trying with the other pictures from today, but Blogger isn't being cooperative at the moment.