It doesn't always smell like roses...

Overall, potty training is going very well. Miles has peeing in the potty perfected with only 1 accident at daycare when he was playing outside. Going #2 is another story though. He has a fear of going on the potty which results in his holding it for hours until he can't hold it any longer. This makes for a sad and writhing little boy, frustrated (and sometimes impatient) parents, and lots of poop to clean out of little underwear. It's a work in progress though. Here's Miles with one of his potty charts - enjoying his reward of an ice cream cone. Tuesday night Miles was just not himself and we attributed it to the exhaustion of potty training but Wednesday morning daycare called us to say he had a fever and needed to be picked up. Mike and I negotiated and switched our schedules so that I was home on Wednesday and half of Thursday and Mike took the other half of Thursday to stay home with him. Poor guy - his fever was 101-102, he was very lethargic and had no appetite. We did a lot of snuggling and watching "monkey" (Curious George) on TV. Thursday night his fever broke and Friday he was getting back to his normal self. Saturday morning I knew he was completely healed when I came upstairs to find him playing in his Halloween costume.
2 funny things that Miles said this week - he fell down and said "I broke my crown!" We were talking about swimming lessons one morning and I asked Miles if he wanted to swim in a pool with daddy. He said yes and then disappeared into his room. A few minutes later he came out with his sunglasses on and said "let's go to the beach!" I agree - I'm ready to go to the beach too!

I seriously can't get enough of cute, Hadley bath pictures. Here she is with a baby faux-hawk.
This toothless smile is worth a million bucks.
Hadley now has 20 foods in her meal repertoire and eats 3 meals a day. Breakfast is her best meal and she likes her foods (including yogurt) room temperature or warmer. Luckily Hadley hasn't gotten really sick like Miles was...yet... but she does have a cough this week. She coughs so hard at night (lasting a few minutes) that it wakes her up and really upsets her. In our sleepy fog it is often easier to just bring her into bed with us then to comfort her back to sleep. While Hadley sleeps like a little angel (she loves snuggling) Mike and I get kicked in the sides and are practically falling off of the bed when she's with us. For such a tiny thing she sure takes up a lot of room!
Me and my girl.
This weekend Mike and Graham went to the Beer Dabbler in St. Paul on Saturday so Rach and I and the kids hung out. We had a great time and I laughed so hard because 2 toddlers and a baby can be pretty funny. Here are the 3 musketeers.
In matching pajamas - where does one cousin end and the other begin?
It's Rachel's and my turn to go out today so the dads are with the kids and we're going to lunch and a movie. Yeah!