Finally!

At 3 years + 9 months, we FINALLY cleared a huge hurdle with Holden. He has finally been going #2 in the potty. I won't even go into (on the blog) on how he's been trained for #1 since before he turned 3, but we hadn't yet accomplished the other. I'll just leave you with the fact that he's finally gotten it. And I will proudly share he is now completely independent in the bathroom. With the help of Miralax, cutting a hole in the diaper once and lots of prayer, it happened. Seriously, it had gotten SO frustrating to us that we asked a few close friends to pray for our child to poop. They prayed for it during our small group and I couldn't help but snicker throughout the rest of the prayer. And to be honest, I think that was our key ingredient. We found ourselves desperate and began begging God to help Holden out in this area. Go ahead and laugh all you want but we were stumped. So as a final reward for filling up his sticker chart (he had to earn 16 stickers!), he and I had a date last night. And it was so fun! It made me wonder why we don't do individual dates with the boys more often. We really need to start. Holden and I headed for the mall to our promised destination: Build-A-Bear. He picked out a cute little dog and got to work on his creation. He named it Bumble Bee, which he came up with all on his own. We bought Bumble Bee some undies since it went with the theme and reason for our celebration. And then Holden found some Cars jammies and slippers for it to wear. He just so happens to have some of those matching slippers, which he thought was cool. It's so fun once your child has these fun opinions. I loved watching his mind work as he made these decisions. I've been wanting to take the boys to Build-A-Bear but I was holding off for a few reasons. The first being cost and it needed to be a special event. We don't really do that stuff for no reason at all. And another reason, I think it's such a cute and special experience, so I just wanted them to understand the process and hopefully remember the experience. Since Holden is almost 4, he really got it and had fun with it. Here are a few pictures from our date.Listening intently to instructions on what to do with the heart that would go inside his dog.
Bathing and brushing his little dog.
Next he was treated to some pink and blue icecream.
He loves his new friend, Bumble Bee! And even though he's pushing 4, I'm still super proud of him.