Tuesday was Valentine’s Day, and Ashlyn’s daycare had a “Wear your PJ’s to Daycare” day. It was also an “I don’t want to get out of bed” day. I simply couldn’t do anything to get her to wake up, and I’ve learned from experience not to pick her up out of bed before she stands up on her own. Luckily, PePa had left a Valentines gift for Ashlyn in our downstairs closet, and at the mention of the gift she went from sleepy to standing up in the crib in seconds. We went downstairs and Ashlyn asked for her present. I took it out of the closet and handed it out to her, but she refused to take it. “Wrap it Daddy.” Okay, so I took it back upstairs, put it in a gift bag, and Ashlyn happily opened it up. “A puppy!!!” she exclaimed when she took out the snoopy animal, as if she didn’t see it two minutes earlier. Silly girl. I love those PJs.
This marked the first big weekend for potty training, and I’m happy to report that Ashlyn did an incredible job. She ran around the house all weekend with no pants on, and used the potty every single time. As a reward, she got to celebrate with ice cream and stickers. Our goal was to have her potty trained before the next kid is born, and it looks like we’re on track.
Speaking of the next kid, the biggest news this week came to us on Friday when we had the 20 week sonogram. We’re excited to share that we a have a baby boy on the way! We would have been very happy to have another girl, given how much fun we’ve had raising Ashlyn, but we’re pumped that we’re going to have a girl and a boy running around in a few short years. We tried to get Ashlyn to pose with an “It’s a boy” balloon for the blog, but she wouldn’t cooperate. Here’s the best we were able to capture.
So 19 more weeks to go until Ashlyn has a baby brother. She’s practicing on her hugs with Elmo.
