LR Learns to Ice Skate

I may not have grown up in ice skating country, but I thought it might be a good idea if LR started a little on the early side here. So, I signed him up for lessons after he expressed interest in wearing my Rollerblades in the basement during the summer. He had his first lesson last week and really enjoyed it. I got a quick video of him with my iPhone trying out the skates as he walked to the ice. The kids are playing red light/green light with the teacher. I didn't get any video of him on the ice because he was too far away. I'll bring our video camera next time because it's too cute to miss and the kids are getting better every time. The first day they started out using 2 stacked milk crates to balance themselves and at the last lesson he skated without the crates. He also fell a lot, but he didn't seem to mind and I'm just glad I invested in some knee pads.

Missy's First Sentence

Yesterday Missy put together her first sentence. Well, I guess her first real sentence was a week ago when asked who wanted a snack and she said, "I do! I do!" But yesterday when I asked her if she wanted another grape tomato from the container she said, "I want two." It was adorable.

In other Missy news, she's potty training already. She has shown a real dislike for her diaper and promptly removes it if you leave her alone without pants or shorts on for more than a few seconds and recently even that hasn't stopped her. I took her out of her crib the other day after her nap to find her half naked. So, she hates her diaper and I can think of no better reason to potty train her. This week she's peed in her potty a number of times and although I don't think she understands the difference between underwear and a diaper, I bought her some Dora underwear for her to try. She loves peeing in the potty and the only trouble was that J Frog wanted to put his hand into the potty while she was using it. I immediately ordered a second potty even though he probably won't be training for a while. Now LR wants to use it and have "pee races." I'm trying to dissuade LR from using the training potty, but he thinks they're pretty special. *sigh*