Toddler Happenings

A few funny things to note about Lainey at this time:

• Playing dress-up is a very fun pastime. Her glasses are worn quite often - to school, church, restaurants...and 9 times out of 10 they are worn upside down.
• Apparently, our encouragement of Lainey's accomplishments in potty training has in turn encouraged her to congratulate Walker on his accomplishments in his diaper. She cheers for him when I change his diapers by saying, "Yay, Walkie! He go poo poo/wee wee in him biper! Yay, Walkie!" She claps her hands and is so proud of him! I think she'll be a big help when we do potty train Walker (in a couple of years, of course). :)
• The girl has no shame about going potty in the great outdoors. She has been known to pull down her little pants, squat down, and "wee wee in grass" at the park, in the church playground after school, in our front yard, in our backyard, in a neighbor's yard (one that we don't know)...you get the idea. She tried to go potty in the middle of the pumpkin patch yesterday but thankfully I had our portable potty in tow so she used that instead. (That Potette has saved us many, many times. I love that thing!) Many times I miss her actual act of urinating in the grass because she is awfully quick and I catch her just as she's pulling up her pants. :) I am confident this phase of wanting to go potty outside will pass...I hope...I think the colder weather will help put an end to that activity.
• Gus, our deer mount, has been in our house for about a about a month now. Nearly every single day, Lainey yells, "Hi, Gus!" and likes to point him out to family and friends. She just thinks he's great. However, whenever she now sees a life-size deer (on TV, on display somewhere, etc.) she points to it and says, "Gus." Apparently, "Gus" is the every deer's name. :)