I am so Pee-roud!

I wasn't sure I would ever see this day. Up until this point, our Baby Bjorn potty has been a toy. Austin will sit on it for a few seconds and then announce that he is done with not a piddle in sight. That all changed last night. Austin was in the bathtub and Charlie decided to introduce Austin to the "pull the finger" trick, which Austin then wanted to copy. The child was working very hard to reproduce the "sound" that his father had produced and we started to get a little concerned that something "else" may show up in the bathtub. We asked Austin if he needed to poo-poo in the potty and of course, he said "yes". I brought in the baby potty and placed Austin on it, and low and behold, the child started to pee! Yes, my child peed in the potty for the first time ever! We celebrated, we danced, we congratulated and gave him a present for his awesomeness! I don't know if we'll see it again for a long time, but I was one proud momma last night!

A Day Out with Thomas

This past Saturday, we attended our first Day Out with Thomas. I'm sure you can tell by past posts that Austin loves Thomas the Train. Once we found out a life-size Thomas was coming to a train station near us, we hurried to buy our tickets because we knew Austin would love it. And LOVE it he did!

Our pic with Thomas

The side view

Austin ready for his train ride (wearing his conductor hat!)

There were lots of activities to do at the station besides the actual train ride. We met Sir Topham Hatt, watched Thomas videos, played with Thomas trains, and took lots of pictures. Oh and of course we went into the gift shop which means we left with lots of Thomas goodies!

Austin, a little unsure of Sir Topham Hatt

Austin playing with Thomas

Austin and his Nonna, who joined us for our fun trip

A Day Out with Thomas is a yearly event at the Essex Train Station, so I am sure that this will be just the first of many visits to see Thomas!

Happy Halloween

While this was Austin's third Halloween, it was the first Halloween where he actually "got" what was going on. I thought that I would at least have one more year where I got to pick the costume, but Austin quickly made it known that he was going to be Thomas for Halloween. For all you folks out there without little boys, Thomas is Thomas the Train and quite the phenomenom with boys Austin's age. So I found a Thomas costume (one size fits all up to age 6!) and we were set. We actually got to wear the costume three times this Halloween season, so we definitely got our money's worth!

We practiced with him on how to knock or ring the doorbell and then say "Trick or Treat", followed by a "thank you" after receiving our candy. He was doing great with it when we practiced at home, but had a little stage fright when we went trick or treating for real. We had him go up to our door first and the first thing he said when Charlie opened the door was "Candy!". He did better as we went to each house and finally had it down by the end of the night! He had a blast and our neighbors loved seeing "Thomas".

The best treat was when our good friends stopped by with their little boy Noah (Austin's buddy). When we opened the door, Austin was so excited to see him and we were able to get some pictures of the boys together. Thanks for stopping by, Christine, Joe and Noah!

I'll leave you with a few pictures of our fun Halloween!

Austin ready for his first time Trick or Treating

Our Thomas the Train pumpkin (this thing took hours!!)

Austin as Thomas the Train

Family Pic at our neighbors

Noah and Austin