It has started!!

Well this has been a very busy week for our little monkey. For Easter we bought him a potty seat for the toilet and this last Thursday, Steve sat him on it and he pee-peed in the toilet. He was very excited but then when we put him in the bath he tried to pee again and couldn't figure out where his stream was. This evening I put him on the potty again but no go until I put him in the bath and then he immediately peed and tried to catch the stream coming out.

So I'm not sure if it will be an easy thing to train him or not cause he appears to like peeing in the tub and making splashes on the water. Yup he's definitely a man in the making!!!

Then if Thursday wasn't exciting enough for him he decided to test the theory of gravity. The theory is if you put your legs over the sides of the crib and you have no fear, will you fall out painfully or tumble lightly. Well Grandma got to experience Jacob's first tumble from his jail bars. She put him down for his nap and shortly after listening to him play nicely, she heard him crying quite loudly. He wasn't in his crib but was crying beside the rocking chair not really sure what to do. Now you might think this would stop his climbing attempts but nope he's determined to master the technique and get out of bed lightly. This weekend, Daddy is putting the gate across the top stairs in case he makes an escape attempt while half asleep.

Jacob has also discovered that when mummy says "No" she really likes to repeat herself a thousand times and when that doesn't work she tries some other methods like dumping water over his head (now before everyone gets in an uproar it's because i had raw chicken on my hands and couldn't wash them quick enough so I grabbed the water glass beside me in the hopes that he would stop what he was doing). Well I soon discovered that water doesn't faze him and that he enjoys playing in it (Like duh mum cause he plays in the cats water dish all the time!) So I must now use my high panic "No" to get him to stop (and even then it's only for a few seconds). My son is unfortuately going through his rebellion stage now. When I say "No", he hears "Well sure go ahead" and so he climbs onto the tables, tries to pull things over, sits in my plant (cause he saw the cat do it) and touches things that he shouldn't. When I try and stop him he figures that if he throws himself backwards or cries real hard or stomp his feet that I'll give in. Most of the time i win but sometimes he wins in that I will let him do something as long as it's safe (I mean cat food won't hurt him and if he coughs up hair balls then I can clean it up)