First Lost Tooth & Potty Training Superstar

Moses is basically fully potty trained! He's even figured out #2 a lot sooner than I expected. He hasn't had a poop accident since last weekend, and at night his diaper has been dry all but once in the past week. He even stayed dry during the 3.5-hour car rides to and from Virginia Beach last weekend. We put him in a diaper on the drive down last Saturday as a precautionary measure, but Moses insisted on taking it off mid-trip. We drove nonstop without any pit stops, and when he needed to pee, he did so in a bottle while still buckled into his car seat. Moses also knows to get out of the pool and pee in the grass, which is a huge bonus since I'm the one responsible for maintaining our pool's chemical balance this summer. I seriously can't imagine an easier potty training experience.

Joshua experienced a milestone of his own today when he lost his first baby tooth! He is the first of the twins to lose a tooth. It had been taunting us for a while, and since his first two adult teeth had already poked through, we were eager for him to lose it lest his new teeth grow in crooked. Instead of leaving a dollar or whatever is the going rate under his pillow, the Tooth Fairy a.k.a. Daddy gave Joshua a "real" gun, per his request. According to Joshua, it looks just like Gospel Bill's gun. And of course, as soon as Joshua and Daddy came home from the Variety Store with his new "real" gun, we promptly found ourselves back in the car to get "real" guns for Caleb and Moses, too. After coming home with "real" guns all around, Joshua said to Joe, "Daddy, let's take a nap. Then when we wake up, we'll go shoot some bad guys." Thankfully, Joshua's interest in guns is tempered by his interest in emulating great men of the Bible. After finding a new "staff" in the woods, he matter-of-factly told me--as if he had no doubt that it would actually work--"I'm going to take my staff and go try it out by the pool. I'm going to part the water."

By the way, I apparently I spend way too much time at Target, as evidenced by Moses' recent perception of a credit card's intended use. We got new credit cards in the mail so I gave the boys the old ones to play with.
Caleb: "What is that thing called?"
Me: "It's a credit card."
Moses: "No, that not credit card. That for Target!"