Nos amis (in English our friends)

Sarah and I visited my old French class a few weeks ago. It was so nice to see everyone. Here are our friends.

Potty training

Some of you may know that Sarah lets us know every time she has to go to the bathroom. I had read a while ago about infant potty training. At the time I thought to myself who are the crazy people who do this....as it turns out I'm one of those crazy people.

I have been putting Sarah on the potty since she was 7 weeks old and she really enjoys it. Every morning we get up and use the potty. She laughs and smiles the whole time. Sometimes I put her on the potty and she doesn't need to go so she fusses and I take her off. The best is when I take her off before she's done. She sure let's me know to put her back on. It's super cute!

I know most people haven't heard of infant potty training but 50% of the worlds children are potty trained using this method. In fact my Mom's mother did it with her children. My mom was potty trained at 9 months. Most kids who start as infants are potty trained by the time they are 1 years old.

Daddy dressed me!

I was on the phone one night while Brad dressed Sarah. She has a lot of really cute outfits but I think the one Brad picked out is the best!

Mommy's little helper

Sarah and I do everything together including laundry. She likes to lay in the laundry basket while I fold clothes. One of these days she's going to fold clothes too! This is an important life skill to have.

I'm a keeper

The picture says it all.

First smiles

Sarah started smiling on Friday, May 7th. I had been taking her to the mirror in our spare bedroom and trying to get her to smile for a couple of days but it wasn't until my sister came that she started! Boy was she cute! Now she smiles all of the time. She will even stop breast feeding to smile. And any time you are are looking directly at her she smiles. It's so fun!

No longer midwife clients

Sarah and I were discharged from our midwife yesterday. We are both doing very well. Sarah went from 6lbs 9oz to 10lbs 2oz. She was 51cm when she was born and 55.5cm yesterday.

It was a little sad to leave. So much has happened and it was such an amazing experience. It's funny, if you had asked me two years ago what my birth plan would have been I would have said: I’m having my baby in the hospital, with drugs, likely by c-section and with a doctor. What else is there? But, the exact opposite actually happened. We had a midwife, a doula, and a drug free home birth. Crazy! I couldn't be happier with the choices we made.