The Princess Playground!

JT and I had a really good day today. It seems like silly stuff, but there were so many firsts today that it seemed worthy of sharing. First of all, when it was time to get dressed for preschool JT decided he didn't want to wear Pull-Ups, he wanted Thomas underwear. He happens to have Thomas The Tank Engine underwear so I decided why not! He's been going to preschool all month and really enjoying it. He's been keeping his Pull-Ups dry since 1/16/10. So today we put the two together and it was his first day of wearing big boy Thomas underwear to school and all day long. And yes, he kept it dry ALL day, even through nap. So I was very proud of him for that! Second, when he got home from school we changed into some clean clothes. He helped me move all his clothes down a drawer or two in his dresser yesterday so that he could start picking out his own clothes. Scary thought I know, but he's been asserting his independence a lot lately! So today was the day, he went up, picked out a new outfit, and he put it on by himself. I told the doctor he could dress himself and I suspect he probably was capable of doing it before today, but today I made him prove that he could do it! I wouldn't have put that shirt with those pants, but we weren't going anywhere so I didn't care. The point was he picked it out and put it on himself! Third trick... we have a baby gate by his bedroom door so that he can't escape in the middle of the night and so I can lock him in during time-outs. Today, he opened the gate by himself and came downstairs. He wasn't being punished or anything, he was just playing in his room because he needed some quiet time. Apparently he was done with quiet time and decided to let himself out. Fourth fun new first... I baked cookies today and I made a big chocolate chip cookie as an experiment. It turned out goofy shaped, but yummy so I let JT use his heart cookie cutters that Grandmom gave us for Christmas and we cut out a bunch of heart cookies for Valentine's Day. It was fun and he enjoyed getting to use the cookie cutters instead of just playing with them on the family room floor. And last, but not least, JT rented his first DVD today. I decided to sign up to Netflix for the remainder of the winter so we could see some new movies. JT has been wanting to see Alvin & The Chipmunks so we rented it and it came in the mail today. It seems like no big deal to most, but he thought it was really cool that he got a movie in the mail and we snuggled on the couch and watched it until he fell asleep. Then we just napped on the couch together for a while. After a day of being such a big boy, it was nice to have my baby bear snuggling with me again. Then we had dinner and took a bath and read stories and went to bed. Now I'm staying up way past my bedtime to get this website a little more caught up. All in all ... it was a GREAT DAY! And now to upload all this and go to bed! Someday I'll try to get some videos posted too. I think I need to update RapidWeaver (my software program) before I get too wild and crazy with this thing. But I'll try to keep posting stories in the blog at the very least. TTFN!