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| We started the birthday weekend at the Farmer's Market where he got this blown up shark! |
His actual day was not too exciting since we were airplane and airport hopping, but the week to follow was spent at Disney World! (more to follow in another post). He is familiar with some of the characters so that was pretty exciting.
Other big things happening with Preston! We (finally) got him potty trained. I'm mostly going to put this note here for myself to laugh at down the road, but believe it or not we got the to the point where we reached out to a professional this time for help. As there are sleep experts/consultants, we discovered there are potty consultants as well. Earlier in the year Preston did not take to the training as he was scared to even sit. I looked into a consultant as we needed help with his outright refusal to sit this time around (not that he scared, now he just didn't want to sit). Josh was the first to get him to be able to do so, and once we discovered he cared for a particular potty seat to use then it started to come together.
Preston had been at a small preschool program before that allowed non-trained kids, which was good for us, but ultimately I wanted to get him into a program with kids more his age and where I could drop him off. Once he was trained, he was good to go! All of December he went to his new program, which I'm also thankful for the fact that he seems to LOVE it. No tears, bribing, nothing. He will continue to go there three days a week for 2-3 hours each day.
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| New school |
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| ...with a new backpack! |
Preston is still taking swimming lessons. He's so close to moving up another level. We took a break in December but hope to start back up in January.
The other big thing that happened with Preston is...
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| ...a new BIG bed! |
Gone are the crib days. Preston never tried to climb out of his crib so we were not anxious to switch him out of it, but the boy was growing too long for it to comfortably sleep. We are SO thankful he continues to not get out of his bed! We were astonished that he did not try to get out. We expected, like our others, that we would have some time of playing the "put him back in bed over and over" game. We think waiting until he was 3 years old instead of 2 helped. Even now he will just call out when he wakes up.
He is your typical, very active boy. He loves to ride his balance bike, he can balance and ride a Razr Scooter (he basically wants to keep up with his brothers). He remains a pretty good eater most of the time. His vocabulary is increasing, which is good for the most part ;) He has his moments of cuddle time. Growing to be such a sweet, smart boy!
