Our Little "Pito" Goes Potty

For anyone who doesn't know, Pito (pronounced peeto) is our little guy's nickname. It started by Marcus calling him Papito (which I think means little papa in Spanish) when he was only a few weeks old. It shortened to Pito soon after & I wasn't too sure if I liked it but It's grown on me and it's pretty much all we call him. He also goes by MJ, little M, Junior (these are the nicknames that other people usually call him) and sometimes even his name Marcus. Sometimes I think I like the name "V" or Vinny for Vincent...his middle name or we could start calling big Marcus by his first name, William - just/kidding Marcus. But for now, we'll keep it as daddy or Marcus and Pito.
So about the big event, we've been talking about starting the whole potty training thing for the last month & a half and daddy finally bought the most important component yesterday - the potty chair. As soon as I got home, I asked Linni if she wanted to witness Pito's first experience using it and I grabbed Pito and she sat down in the dining room where we left it for him. He sat down and I pushed the buttons underneath that make music to peek his interest. We waited and watched for something to happen and just when I thought it wasn't going to happen, HE DID IT! He pottied and sat there looking at Linni & I like can you believe it? After he was done, we both cheered and clapped. He got up from the chair and the music started and we all did a dance together. He slammed the lid down and said "bye bye". I'm so proud and it totally brought back memories of doing the same thing with Sloan & O, hopefully he's as easy to train as they were. Great job Pito!!!

Easter

I love Easter time, all the blossom trees are blooming, the tulips & daffodils are looking beautiful. I was also born on Easter in 1975. My mom woke up early that morning in labor and when she woke my dad up to tell him the Easter bunny was coming, he had no idea what was going on. When I was about 10 yrs old, my parents surprised us with baby chicks in an Easter basket that were all different colors. (I'm still not sure how they were able to dye them different colors, must have come from colored eggs.) I thought they were the cutest little things and I talked my parents into letting them sleep in my room that night. They were in a cage with a heating lamp on them but they made so much noise that I thought about moving them to Soren's room when I couldn't sleep that night.

Anyways, here are a couple pictures from Easter. As you can see, Sloan's not letting us take her picture much these days...must be a teenager thing. Junior was in his 1st Easter egg hunt and caught on pretty fast, he even pulled a Sloan and borrowed eggs from other kid's baskets. When they were spreading the eggs out for his group, he kept saying "ball" "ball". Daddy was helping him and he was all over those eggs. He loved the tootsie rolls too.

Platos Closet Fashion Show & Birthday Party @ Chopstix

Here are a couple pictures from my Birthday...I was chosen to be a model for Platos Closet & for part of my Birthday, I was in a fashion show @ the NW Women's Show in Seattle. I have decided that I won't be applying for other jobs in that arena anytime soon but it was a lot of fun. I'm just glad you can't see my legs shaking in the pictures.

The other pictures are from my Birthday party Marcus had for me a couple weeks ago. It was @ Chopstix dueling piano bar in Tacoma. The party was for my friend Hope too, we both had many friends come...it was sooo much fun! Even Matt & his girlfriend Sarah came to celebrate with me. A bunch of us went dancing after the piano bar and I have to say, I was pretty sore the next day. Marcus & I were thankful that our friends Jamie & Nikki drove us so we got pretty crazy dancing until the early morning.

Holy Cow, I'm 33!

Hello & welcome to the Sledge family blog, I've wanted to start a blog for the longest time and I've finally done it! I just received news that our little guy, Marcus Vincent Alan didn't make the top 500 for the movin 92.5 Baby Idol contest. (This is the picture I submitted to the contest.)There were over 6000 babies in the contest and he was by far the cutest of them all!
Yesterday was my 33rd Birthday and I had a great day with my family & yummy dinner with the Sledge family! I'm so blessed to have an amazing husband who I'm totally in love with, incredible children & sister and an awesome God! I'm totally good with getting another year older...at least so far I haven't been too depressed about getting older.