The Im Family

one of these days i'll get around to posting about our DR trip.

There was once i time when i actually had a bit of time to draft, proofread, edit and then publish each entry.  these days, i'm just lucky if i get anything down.  so here's a rough entry: ozzy has had a very successful week of going without diapers entirely during the day and, with help, at night.  as long as i remember to wake him up to take him to the potty in the middle of the night, he is able to hold it until the morning when he wakes up.  occasionally he wakes up crying for me and it's usually because he has to pee that he wakes.  but i can't rely on him to do it consistently just yet.  if he's really tired, he'll just pee in his sleep.  so i have to make sure to wake him if he doesnt wake himself before midnight. he has been using the potty to pee w/consistency but still asking for a 'poo poo diaper' for number 2.  and though i often offered the toilet to him for pooping, and let him know that poop should go into the potty and that it ...

crazy week with ozzy...we are going on day 4 of no daytime diapers AT ALL.  and then last night, no nighttime diapers either!  last night, i heard him yelling  some time in the middle of the night at the top of his lung up at the ceiling, "I have to go PEE-PEE!!!"  i find him sitting up in bed, crying.  i get him out of bed, ask him if he wants to pee on the potty, and he says yeah.  even though he had his diaper on, he didnt just pee in his diaper.  i'm flabbergasted because i seriously thought he was too immature to wake from sleep to tend to potty needs, and that he's gone from using a couple of poop diapers a day to no diapers at all very suddenly, is pretty freaking amazing to me (especially since it felt like it took ages to get mimi to give up the poop diapers when she was little!). i get his diaper off and he uses his little red potty which i keep in his room at night so he can learn to be independent at night and not have to go fumbling in...

this halloween was a very different one in the im house.  whereas in years past, a big part of the fun of the holiday was to dress up kaya, and then take her house to house with mimi for trick or treating, laughing every step of the way as she trotted by us looking so funny in her costume and neighbors laughing (or just shaking their heads), but since she passed last year, halloween had lost a lot of the fun for us (or maybe it's just me?).  last halloween was unbearably sad for me without kaya, though i think mimi and ozzy were still excited about all the candy (and it rained that night, so that just added to the depression).  so as this halloween approached i felt we needed to do something different to make it fun again.  so this year we hosted a small party, decorated the house, invited some of mimi's friends (mostly daisy scouts) for some pizza and candied apples (the mini candied apples were a bit of a flop...but i figured out a few tricks and will try these aga...