A family update...

Potty Training: Jackson is starting to work a little harder at school potty training, up until this week he had been using diapers at school and only occasionally trying the potty. He is now in a more rigorous plan with his teachers to have him trained while at school. Jackson is still in pullups and often gets too distracted and tells us "potty" as he is peeing in his pullup. Though we are still pretty consistent when it comes to poop... thank goodness!

Big Boy Bed: Jackson spent his first night in a big boy bed on Sunday. It took a lot of work to get the little guy to sleep, stories, singing and "petting." Grandma Pam took a turn, Dad took a turn, Mom took a turn, and finally Dad had luck. Like I said in an earlier post, Dad got a little too nervous and slept the first night on the floor beside the bed. The second night was awful! From big boy bed to crib, to big boy bed to crib and a lot of screaming in betweeen. We finally gave up and left him in his crib to cry himself to sleep. Then Ron moved a sleeping Jackson into his big boy bed so that he would wake there in the morning. Round three has us looking up. I read a few books while laying next to him in his big boy bed. I left him with a flashlight and an I SPY book and told him he had to stay in his big boy bed or we'd have to spend the night in the crib. I left the room, he read his book and sang songs for about 20 minutes and sleep! Yay! Let's see how night four plays out.

Food Allergies: We are due to make an appointment with the allergist one of these days, but since I've been going to the doctor so much, I've been putting it off. Jackson has officially been dairy free for one year now. And in the one year, he has had but just one ear infection: success. He has also been peanut and tree nut and egg free since last summer. I'm beginning to get anxious to try milk and egg again, and will do so after we talk with the allergist. We'll hold off for another year or two until we try any nuts again.

Our House: Since the fire in the stove we have had a lot of work done in our home. Painting, cleaning and our ducts cleaned. We've really gotten in the spririt of spring cleaning and the place is coming out rather well. We (Ron) replaced the stair runner to the upstairs, repaired some plaster upstairs, put in a new railing, put a closet system in for Jackson and a myriad of other things. It feels good to purge, clean and organize!

Ron: Ron is looking forward to the start of softball season in three weeks (hard to imagine since there is snow on the ground today). And spending the break in between sports on home improvement projects. He has a list of wood working projects awaiting the return of good weather and is being kept busy by the two year old in the house.

Sara: Sara is once again being kept on her toes with school work. Half way through History and Statistics classes has proved to make her go cross-eyed. It's been a long time since high school math, and she wasn't any good at it then either. She still finds a few hours during the weeks to read the Twilight series and spend a couple hours scrapbooking with friends. The pregnancy has been a bit rough this go around, the sciatic nerve problem is back, and feeling far more tired this time around has her pretty drained(I suppose it's because there just isn't time to nap this time).