Colin the almost 3 year old

We started a sticker chart for the potty for Colin last week and I don't  want to jinx it, but it's really working! Colin has been wearing undies the last week and tells me when he needs to go and then goes! It's like it's all a sudden clicked with him and he definitely loves the incentive of the stickers and eventual treat...let's hope this stays!! 

Colin's language continues to grow and he really converses/talks so much now. 

He really is quite the backseat driver and whenever we are in the car he always wants to know where we are going and how we are getting there. He even notices if I go a different way, just today I took a different exit to his gymnastics class, which we only go to once a week, and he asked if I'd gone the wrong way! I think he's got his mommys innate sense of direction :) it's also been a good opportunity to teach him left,right straight and behind as he is always asking which way we are going. 

 He is also repeating a lot of what we say so we have to be extra careful of our curse words now! Otherwise...repeat! He also repeats so many phrases I say to him.. just today he repeated shortly after me "that's correct!" to a different subject then what I had said that to... when he wants my attention besides saying "Scuse me" he'll say "look into mine eyes" because I apparently say something similar to him when I'm trying to get him to listen/pay attention. He really is pretty hilarious at this age, of course he also has his extremely stubborn moments and getting him dressed nowadays can be a challenge...luckily not because he has a preference in his clothes, just getting him to sit still is the challenge...he does definitely like to pick out his socks, undies and shoes, the rest I luckily still get to pick out. 

All in all I really love this age. I hope to document as much as I can on this blog, it's nice to look back at different ages and I think will be interesting to compare what his brother will be like at similar ages. 

The sticker chart

A much needed haircut

Visit to Santa, no tears or hesitation for the 3rd year in a row! 

Almost 31 week belly

In between in Florida

Our Florida trip was filled with lots of play dates, family and friend time. It's a little exhausting but I try to squeeze in as much as I can because our days are much harder to fill in LR. I was to come back for the sole reason to see Evan, it'd been 11 days since we saw him, entirely too long.I love being home in Florida when he's here with me but not as much when he's not.
We are in such a weird limbo stage this year, when we come home to the house In lutz it's like we never left...our rooms are untouched and have all our belongings, Colin sleeps in his old crib and plays with many of his toys we left behind. He knows exactly where everything is.
In Little Rock, we have our house with new belongings but don't spend much trying to make it a place we will be long term.
I had to get creative for Christmas this year, with an almost 3 year old in the house, the holidays are magical but we don't have any of our Christmas decorations in LR. So I hit up the dollar store and have the house decorated pretty well for less than $100,not bad! I'll write a separate post about what kind of Christmas celebrations we've been up to since we got back. Here are some snapshots of our time back in Florida.