Big Dutch News

Three items of big Dutch news.

1. Last night, for the first time since we moved into this house in September, Dutch slept in his own bed ALL NIGHT LONG! I am attributing this in equal parts to his "new" big boy bed and the Cars 2 (or, as Dutch calls it, "Johnny Missile") bed sheets.

2. He has been doing fantastic with potty training lately. We haven't had a poop accident for over a week, maybe even two! It happened right after I called my sister in despair, telling her I was sure he would NEVER poop on the toilet. I know he didn't overhear since he wasn't home when I placed the call, but somehow he knew that Mama really needed him to get potty-trained. It is, by far, my least favorite part of motherhood.

3. Next week Dutch "graduates" from his first year of early-intervention pre-school! I remember his very first day of school when I asked him what he had done that day and he said, "I played with toys." It was the most he had ever spoken all at once and I started crying. Since then he has grown so much and his language improves every single day. I don't talk about it very much, but I'm so grateful for his teachers, bus drivers, and, especially, his speech language pathologist.

That's the big Dutch news for this week!