BIG BOY STUFF

Now that Griffin is a year old, we are marking all kinds of "big boy" milestones. We recently took both boys to get real haircuts, a first for Griffin. Cal's first one went well - they handed him a toy and he barely noticed what was happening after that. Apparently Griffin is far ahead of his brother in the self-awareness category....Things did not go well. Cal has been a screaming nightmare for all of his haircuts except the first. This one was no different. We wonder when he'll grow out of it. Griffin hated it about as much. We tried everything possible to distract him - a litany of toys, cookies, songs. Nothing worked. WARNING: These are some of the most pitiful photos you will ever see on the internet.

Our next big boy milestone is big boy underwear. No, Griff is not ready for potty training (darn!). But Cal is showing some interest so we are trying to move him along - 2 in diapers is about to break us! The one thing Cal has not wanted to do yet is to actually put on the big boy underwear we bought at the store with Nana the last time she was here. For some reason he had a real mental block about it and was really emotional about it everytime we raised it. So I finally tried a crazy idea and put a pair on Griffin, thinking this would motivate Cal to do the same. It worked! He was very excited about it once he saw Griffin in the underwear. So he wore them around for a while and took them off before bed and hasn't put them back on since. Oh well. Nice try.