Mira and I took the boys to Habitot a month or two ago -- Ezra enjoyed pretending to be an astronaut and painting the planets on the wall. He's so into the solar system -- he can name all the planets, wishes he lived on Jupiter, and can name Jupiter's 4 biggest moons! (Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa, apparently, which I only learned through my son's new curiosity!) Arlo really enjoyed exploring the baby section with lots of mirrors and soft structures to sit on. He is really amazed by mirrors -- it's so cute! He also just discovered that one of Ezra's car's wheels spin and turn and make a loud noise when you pull the car backwards, and he cracks himself up each time he does it. It's so adorable watching him play and laugh and learn! Our other big news here has been that Ezra is finally pooping on the potty! No kids' blog would be complete w/out stories of pee and poop so here it is. Ezra basically has been terrified of pooping for a year. I think he had a few that hurt him once, and he's been holding it in ever since. He's been on Miralax for about 9 months and finally kind of got it under control so he wouldn't be so freaked out by it. Anyway, Noah was so patient trying to get him to go on the potty. He was terrified to do it though, and even promises of getting to watch a whole movie (Cars II!) wasn't enough to get him to overcome his fear. Somehow Noah got him to do it. He was still scared the second and third time, but after that -- boom! Now he's making himself poop 6 times a day so he can watch his 10 minutes of Cars movie reward. We'll have to wean him of the reward soon, but it's so amazing that after a year of fear and holding it in, his willpower has done a 180 degree reversal and we have a pooping pro. OK, that was probably too much about poop, but this is the stuff we're going to want to remember, right?
Mira and I took the boys to Habitot a month or two ago -- Ezra enjoyed pretending to be an astronaut and painting the planets on the wall. He's so into the solar system -- he can name all the planets, wishes he lived on Jupiter, and can name Jupiter's 4 biggest moons! (Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa, apparently, which I only learned through my son's new curiosity!) Arlo really enjoyed exploring the baby section with lots of mirrors and soft structures to sit on. He is really amazed by mirrors -- it's so cute! He also just discovered that one of Ezra's car's wheels spin and turn and make a loud noise when you pull the car backwards, and he cracks himself up each time he does it. It's so adorable watching him play and laugh and learn! Our other big news here has been that Ezra is finally pooping on the potty! No kids' blog would be complete w/out stories of pee and poop so here it is. Ezra basically has been terrified of pooping for a year. I think he had a few that hurt him once, and he's been holding it in ever since. He's been on Miralax for about 9 months and finally kind of got it under control so he wouldn't be so freaked out by it. Anyway, Noah was so patient trying to get him to go on the potty. He was terrified to do it though, and even promises of getting to watch a whole movie (Cars II!) wasn't enough to get him to overcome his fear. Somehow Noah got him to do it. He was still scared the second and third time, but after that -- boom! Now he's making himself poop 6 times a day so he can watch his 10 minutes of Cars movie reward. We'll have to wean him of the reward soon, but it's so amazing that after a year of fear and holding it in, his willpower has done a 180 degree reversal and we have a pooping pro. OK, that was probably too much about poop, but this is the stuff we're going to want to remember, right?
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