The last toilet training update I gave was when Tate was 23 months-old. At that time, we were reminding him to use the toilet every hour or so. 

He’s currently 26 months-old and now he can independently decide when he needs to go pee or poop. He’ll yell “pee!” and start running to the toilet. We only use diapers at nap and bed time.

In the middle of helping Tate with his toilet learning, I read this article about the dangers of early toilet learning, written by a pediatric urologist. I’ll be honest and say that it freaked me out a little bit. Fortunately, everything seems to be going well

Oh, IKEA. You are such a money suck.

We went a couple of weekends ago to get a new outdoor umbrella (which was out of stock) and instead walked away with:

Please forgive me if I already posted about the board book we had made for Tate. We had such a positive experience with Pint Size Productions again. I thought I already wrote about it, but I can’t find the post. I came across the book in our book basket, so I thought I would share.

We made a board book for Henry’s first birthday. I reflect a lot about things I did for Henry that I want to also do for Tate (like his scrapbook) versus things I want to let go. The board book was one of those things I really wanted to do for Tate but