Big boy stuff....

Well the last couple of weeks have been kinda major for our favorite little man.....he is now binky free and almost totally potty-trained!!! He has only had his binky's to sleep with at nap time and at night for awhile now, but Mike and I figured he was old enough to be done with them all together. So I thought it would be fun to go to Build-A-Bear and get a new bedtime buddy to replace the binky....and hopefully ease the loss.

So I explained how since he was such a big boy, that he needed to throw his binky's away and we could go make a binky bear to sleep with at night and help him feel safe like the bink's had. He seemed ok with the idea, and promptly went downstairs to throw his bink's in the trash- and off we went to the mall to get his new binky friend!!!

It's hard work making a stuffed friend, so we had to stop for some Auntie Anne's goodness afterwards....yumm!!!

Aiden with his new owl friend- who he named Aiden (very creative, right?!?!)

Aiden the owl dressed in his awesome Star Wars pj's and ready for bed- he thankfully has helped Aiden the boy, make a smooth transition to life off the bink :)

My little ham-bone- he thinks he's so cute.....well, really he is :)

Aiden loves the "house" his new friend came in and has played with that more than anything! Isn't that always the way it goes? Give them a sorta expensive toy and they play with the box!!! Although I must admit that it is a pretty cool box :)

And in other big news.....Aiden is almost fully potty trained!!! When his sister started crawling he totally back slided and wanted to be in diapers like the baby and no promises or bribes could make him cooperate- we had been so close and I was super bummed! But now I think we are good, and I am so relieved that he won't be going to high school in diapers!!!