Hasta la Vista, BABY!

Lucas is the child who always seems to handle change very well and Mike and I have been oh so lucky to breeze through some big milestones with him. He gave up the bottle super easy, he threw away all his pacifiers and never asked about them again, so when it came time to potty train we knew this would also be a cinch, right?? Um, NO! Or as Whitney would say it, "Hell to the NO!"

We pushed and pushed and pushed some more. We read books about going to the potty, let him watch us go, rewarded with M&M's, watched DVD's, and tried to motivate through fear (yep, not a star Mom quality). This kid would not do it or would for 2 days and then start back at square one. We gave in and waited until he officially turned 3. And what do you know, he mastered the potty within a week, numero uno and numero dos!! We didn't even force the nighttime issue until I was out of school and even then we waited until we came back from our vacation. Through his love of infomercials he had fallen in love with an arts and crafts activity called Aqua Sand. Mike made him a calendar and every morning and naptime he woke up dry in his 'roos he added a sticker until he spelled AQUA SAND! He went for 8 days with no accidents and we took him to Toys R Us to buy his special reward! Mike and I were clearly more excited than Lucas, because as soon as we got there he found a sweeter deal....A Lego Train for a whooping $17o buckaroos! Uh-no! So to his dismay we bought our Aqua Sand and celebrated our new BIG Boy by making a huge Aqua Sand mess! We have now started a new calendar where we spelled out BOWLING! We hope to make a trip to the bowling alley very soon in our BIG BOY 'roos or if it were up to Lucas he would rather wear these...

The powerful persuasion of commercials!!!

He has now decided that when he grows up he wants to wear the Huggies Jeans!

Here's our Potty Like a Rockstar Boy!