Easter & A Poop Party!

This year for Easter we went to Ted's Auntie Jane's house. Originally, we had planned on doing that every Easter and for one reason or another we always changed plans. I am glad we didn't this year. The menu was amazing! Everything and everyONE was taken into consideration. It was a great day with wonderful company. Eliot had such a great time playing with all of Russell's toys (Ted's cousin's son who is almost a year old) and with his cousins, Lilla & Beatrice and later, with some 2nd cousins who are older and who he'd never even met before; it didn't bother him! He played with them like he's known them forever. He had so much fun. We wanted to keep him awake on the ride home so we told him not to close his eyes. When we were about 15 minutes from home he asked "Mama, I go to sleep in the car?" (How can you say no to that!). I think he ended up resting his eyes some, but he never fell asleep, but he did sleep good that night!

After his Easter morning bath:

In his Easter outfit that Nana got him:

Onto other (more embarrassing) topics. We have been laying the foundation for potty training with Eliot. He will often pee in the potty, but pooping was a whole other issue. He's scared of putting on underwear and rather attached to his "diapy" so I don't want to FORCE the issue; just encourage it. Finally, I told him if he pooped in the potty we'd have a party. That very day (of course), he pooped in the potty for the first time. He said "Mama, we go to the store and buy a cake now?" I was done for. We went to iparty and got a Dora balloon and a new digger to put on the cake we later made together. He was very excited to bring his friend (who lives downstairs from us) a piece of his cake! It was a BIG deal!

Reading the recipe:

After that time, Eliot wasn't so enthusiastic about pooping on the potty so I took some advice I got from a friend and just yesterday started letting him watch digger and dump truck movies on my phone while he's on the potty; that did it! NOW, he's interested :)