Alex did wees in his potty for the first time, after his bath tonight!
He has previously caught me out by weeing unexpectedly after a bath so tonight when he got a bit restless as I was drying him I asked him if he wanted to go wee in his potty and he said 'yeh' and ran to his potty. He sat there for a while with his sudoku book (he reads the numbers) and then we heard a glorious tinkling sound from the potty. It surprised him too! We cheered and clapped him and made a bit fuss about how clever he was and I ran to get the camera. Not that him sitting on a potty with wee in looks any different from him sitting on a dry potty but it's important to photograph those 'firsts' in his life, even if it's just to embarrass him when he brings his first girlfriend home. Naturally as soon as he saw the camera he decided to leave but when he stood up the potty had stuck to his damp, fresh washed, skin. So when he stood up the potty did too and promptly emptied down his legs and onto the bathmat. Hopefully this unfortunately accident and his parents rolling on the (dry) floor laughing haven't put him off using the potty again. Considering he kept saying 'more wee' and wanting to sit on the potty again and again, I think we shall be alright.
Wow I feel so proud! This potty training thing might actually happen this year! My little boy is growing up.
So no potty photo but here's a photo of Alex with his new electric frog tooth brush. He loves it. I bought it yesterday and ever since I've been plagued by demands for 'more tee' (teeth). He just wants to keep playing with it. Last night he wouldn't sleep. He sat in bed saying 'more tee' over and over. We knew he wanted his tooth brush but pretended we didn't. Until he speaks more clearly we can get away with that. Eventually Graham went in and gave him one of his plastic tea cups and he went to sleep. Maybe he really did want more tea!
Another cause for celebration is our new deck. Not quite finished, and there's the rendering and garden to go with it, then there's the carport floor and a new back door, but in one very wet week Dad has taken our back yard from this
to this.
Actually it's been less than a week, he started Monday, had Thursday off and Sunday will be his day of rest (and fixing the electric drill Alex broke).
We replaced the old pergola earlier this year and now the decking is almost finished. It is so nice to walk out the door onto the deck now.
I'm looking forward to being able to sit out there and edit photos on the laptop while Alex plays outside.
Here's some progress shots.
The old pergola coming down and the new one with the deck going in.
Not the best photos. Some of these were actually taken in the rain.
The old pergola was dark, green and falling down.
Tilly is an inside/outside cat now. She got to play outside each day at my parents while we were away and she didn't get lost, eaten by a dog or run over. So we have decided she can go outside here now. I'm still worried about her getting lost, eaten by a dog or run over but so far so good. She has a cat flap on the back door and goes in and out all day then at night we shut her in. Her favourite activity is doing laps right around the outside of the house, in through the front gate, straight over the neighbours fence (they are not impressed) and down the footpath to do the loop again. All at high speed and over and over. She has a bright green collar with a bell so I can hear her even from inside the house.
She likes to think she is a hunter. She certainly can look the part, she is very good at stalking and blends really well with the fence and grass but she has no hope of catching one of the native birds. They can spot her anywhere and they make such a racket rousing on her. Even without the bell I'd know where she is from the birds dobbing on her. The bell is just to make sure she really can't get close to any birds.
Here's the outside version of Tilly before we got her collar. We had to buy the smallest we could find and cut half of it off and make new holes just to get a collar to fit her skinny neck.
Here's what she wants to catch.
Tomorrow we are photographing 'Team Eunos'. It's an early start so I have to get the camera batteries charged and the gear packed up tonight. Here's some shots from our last car shoot, last month. This one was for the UK Toyota Sera calendar.
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