Fresh Beat Aidan

On Nickelodeon there is a show called, "The Fresh Beat Band." It is a show about a band of 4 (2 guys, 2 girls) they sing vibrant sounding songs, do more hip hop type dancing and wear very colorful outfits. Aidan LOVES them. There are pretty caliber with "The Wiggles." I mean in the way that you wake up at 2am and have their songs rampaging your head. Yeah, that kind of music. Well, Aidan's singing has progressed from inaudible words and clapping to actual words, clapping, some dances moves and jumping. Now some of his words are slurred, you know just like what we do when we forget or don't know all the words to a song. :-) Today after dinner he was sporting his Fresh Beat tunes and drumming on the drum. We are sitting on an air mattress...

Roxy/Potty Training Update

Andrew and I visited Roxy last night. The vet was pretty busy so we couldn't stay long. She was a little freaked out and wanted to run even though she had an IV connected to her kennel. This morning when I got the update from the vet she said Roxy is doing fantastic. She is amazed that she had the TPLO surgery yesterday. She is moving around but relaxed in her kennel. She is pulling the people around when on potty breaks too. She said it would find for us to visit her that she doesn't seem too stressed out. So, we packed up the kids and the potty and dropped them off at my Parent's house. Aidan showed Grandma and Grandpa he willingness to use the potty and awareness very well. He is a peeing machine! Our accidents are minimal. The resistance to take potty breaks only arises know when he is tired. We don't blame him. We are so very proud of his progress and willingness to try. He is extremely proud of himself. Right now he does best with no pants on at all. (For those skeptics out there, don't knock it until you try it.) So we are hoping to start getting him used to underwear next week if all goes well. Right now when he feels there are underwear there he reverts back to diaper time and pees/poops right in them. He is much more aware without the skiivies. Roxy looked great tonight!! She already is putting more weight on her leg than before surgery. She is much more relaxed tonight. She also was suckering everyone in there to give her treats. They said she has been a very good girl and very eager to go outside and check everything out. We cannot wait to bring her home tomorrow. She'll be bandage free too. We are interested to see what it all looks like without the bandages.

Gurgly Giggles

Tonight Logan and Andrew were having a time together. I could not help but to try and capture our Silly Logan. I love these deep belly laughs he does. He also started to copy Andrew. It was hard to catch it on all tape. Of course like normal we start to tape and they stop doing one of the things we wanted to catch. Still pretty entertaining though!!

Busy Week

First off, "Happy Birthday Dad/Dan!"

June and July are full of Birthdays. It gets a little hectic.

Let's see. Aidan began potty training today. We did a half day yesterday and finished the day off at Carrie's Sister's house to celebrate Ansley's latest dance recital. Today we began full force potty training. Yesterday was better than today. The power struggle was tough. He knows what he is doing just needs to want to make the time to stop and take care of it. He has done well enough but we got a little more resistance today with wanting to take a potty break.

Potty training is a good distraction. The days are counting down until Roxy's surgery. She has a torn cranial cruciate ligament in her left knee. We have known she has bad hips, elbows and a subluxating knee cap. However, she has had xrays it turns out her hips are as the vet said, "Bad does not describe how horribly bad they are. I am amazed she can stand let alone run around like she does." However, since she is fully functional with her bad hips they are not clinical or a worry at this time. If we do not fix her knee then our freshly turned 5 year old girl will put undo stress on her "good" hip. So, we feel we have no choice but to fix her. Right now every step she takes her left shin bone continues to move forward creating a horribly unstable knee. She is a good candidate for "TPLO" surgery. Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy, meaning they are going to descrease the angle of her tibial plateau (top of her shin bone) my sawing into her bone and readjusting the angle and securing with a metal plate. She will be confined to a crate and cannot go potty on her own for 8 weeks. That is 8 weeks of leashed potty breaks. Until the osteotomy is healed she cannot have any unsupervised activity. YIKES!!! Right now she hobbles around with a lame rear left leg. She is miserable and we can't have her miserable with two babies running around and add a third to the mix.

The potty training is posing for a good distraction for sure! Roxy also will need us to perform PT for the next at least 8 weeks also. She is scheduled for surgery Wednesday morning and will not come home until Friday.

#3 Bulge

11 weeks 5 days

Andrew and Carrie headed out to a wedding tonight. After some yummy super salty foods we decided it would be fun to take a shot of the bloated baby bulge. Don't don't if I would call it a bump quite yet but it is slowly maintaining it's size after meals and first thing in the morning. Clothes sure don't fit, regular or maternity. Hopefully we get out of the limbo stage here soon.

Grandpop's Birthday!

Today was Grandpop's Birthday. Aidan and Logan helped Carrie make a pound cake for dessert. Aidan helped crack the eggs, add the flour and sugar too. He was a very willing taste tester of the batter. Logan of course wants to be part of everything too. Logan enjoyed looking in the mixer and very slyly trying to stick his hand in there. Don't worry he never did! He had a grand time helping out too. We then packed up everyone to head to Nana and Grandpop's for dinner. I think the boys enjoyed dessert the most. We had to sing "Happy Birthday" a few extra times for Aidan too. We then feasted on pound cake and fresh berries while the boys helped open the presents. Aidan and Logan also helped decorate the wrapping paper too. They had a fantastic time and then we had to pack up and get the tired ones to bed. Logan fell asleep on the way home and did not wake up until morning! Birthday's sure are exhausting!!

Handy Man Aidan

Today Andrew tried to mow the grass. He then remembered that for some reason on of the wheel height adjusters wasn't working right. Instead of mowing the grass he spent that time trying to get the adjuster bent back into place. Aidan woke up from nap and was very happy to help. Andrew asked him if he would help and Aidan's response was, "How about a hammer?!" Logan missed out on the fun because he was still napping. Here's a video clip of our Handy Man Aidan.