Oatmeal and Eighty Year Olds

Avery had her first bite of oatmeal this week.  After not calling once in the last six months, Becca's work asked her to work while we were gone to Savannah, GA a couple of weeks ago.  They called again this week and Rebecca went in for several hours.  She was concerned, but Avery did well without the mommy milk for a couple of hours.  Since then, Becca has been making it a point to feed her oatmeal nightly.

Sunday, we visited with Nana and Poppy (Taylor and Avery's great grandparents, my grandparents on my dad's side).  Taylor warmed up quickly and thirty minutes in was doing this:



Avery took a little longer.  Specifically because Nana scared the crap out of her by peaking into her carseat at the exact second Avery woke up from her nap. By the end of our time there, though, she had warmed up nicely.  Our little girls are growing up!  We need to make visiting their great grandparents more of a priority.

Update: Taylor's Three Major Milestones

I wanted to provide an update on how Taylor is progressing on the three major milestones.  Remember that post?  If not, here you go (click here).

Bottle
Let's call this one closed.  No issues whatsoever.

Potty Training
For the most part, we have been successful on this.  Well, other than when she STOOD OVER THE TOILET LIKE A MAN AND LET IT FLY!  She said, "I'm peeing like Daddy".  I ran over there screaming NOOOOOOO!  However, I was impressed that she got it all in the potty except for two drops.  That's better accuracy than I have.  Hopefully, that issue has been addressed.  Other than that, we've not had many issues.  Progress my friends!

Concentrating on the task at hand:

Big Girl Bed

This Wednesday, I put the bed together (with the help of PawPaw Jody).  We gave Taylor some presents to go with it to make it a really big deal for her.  

It looked like this when we finished:

I hear what you are saying.  It's a pretty sweet bed, but a little low.  Well that is because we didn't have any box springs and the mattress is laying on the floor.  Or rather, I have box springs, but they didn't fit on the bed.  I'm going to spare you the long drawn out story about how I thought the bed was made to the wrong size and tell you that it now looks like this.  Thanks to PawPaw Jody for helping me put the bed together . . . twice, and a curse to you, Baby Appleseed, for making weird bed rails.

Taylor has slept all night long in her bed for the last three nights, albeit with me by her side.  She's only waking up for a few minutes a night, so as soon as we can break her of that habit for a few nights, I'll start to try to transition out.  

What's that?  You want to see another cute pic of Taylor?  Ok.  Here she is after she got in the makeup.  I'm digging the Joker look: