It Has Been a While

Hi, Kyle M. Berning here. It has been a while since the last post. May has been a very busy month for the Berning family. At the beginning of the month we took a family trip to the beach. I did not enjoy going on the beach. It really scared me when my daddy went too close to the water.


I did like hanging out on the boardwalk. The best part was getting ice cream each night. Daddy and I also found a playground to play on.





It was a great weekend. My mommy and daddy are hoping that I enjoy playing on the beach more on our two beach vacations this summer.

After our trip to the beach it was my mommy's birthday and Mothers Day. I made sure my mommy felt really special on Mother's Day.
Then I got sick with Roseola. I recovered from that just in time for my 2nd birthday!!!
I had a Mickey Mouse birthday party. All my friends and family came over to celebrate with me.






If you ask me how old I am I will tell you that I am 2 and hold up two fingers. My mommy and daddy can't believe that I am getting so big.

Then I went to my friend Parker's 1st birthday party.

Last week my mom and I went to see the Blue Angels. It was fun to see the airplanes do tricks. Sometimes it was loud and I had to cover my ears.

This weekend is my Aunt Heather and Aunt Lisa's birthday. The busy month of May continues right up until the end.

I am looking forward to my mommy being on summer break so we can spend lots of time together.

Hopefully my mommy or I will update sooner now that the busy month of May is slowing down.

Moon

Kyle, daddy and I were outside eating popsicles and Kyle looked up at the sky, pointed and said "moon." And sure enough the moon was up there. Brian and I just laughed and were amazed like always at the things Kyle picks up.
Each day it is something new.

Playing Outside

Kyle LOVES to play outside!! The weather has been so nice recently that we have had some time to play outside after work.
Some days we ride bikes or play ball.
Some days we draw on the sidewalk with chalk.



He likes to pick beautiful "flowers" from the yard (there are plenty to pick from) and put them in his truck.





Sometimes when we are playing outside Aunt Lisa, Uncle Tom and Cousin Taylor stop by.



(sorry I did not take a picture of Taylor, I don't know what I was thinking!)


Kyle loves to play outside, so it can be very difficult to get him to come inside. On this day he ran to the front door and said "poo poo."
We went inside and Kyle sat on the potty and went pee pee and got two M&M's.
YEAH KYLE!

Always Have a Spare

Kyle has a favorite stuffed animal, his monkey. He sleeps with it every night and wants to take with him around the house (by the strings on his hat). When I saw that this was his favorite, I went to the store and bought a spare. Just in case of a monkey emergency.
Last night I had to break out the emergency monkey...
Kyle has been sick the past few days and last night was the worst, it included him throwing up all over monkey. There was no way he was going to be able to sleep with his monkey the rest of the night. I quickly scooped up barfy monkey and got out the spare monkey. He looked a bit different, not as worn out and dirty but Kyle took right to this monkey. Kyle was able to "sleep" the rest of the night with his beloved monkey.

On a side note, I have rescued old monkey. My new washing machine and dryer are amazing and he was able to be washed and dried and is back to his old self, but a little cleaner.

I will put emergency monkey back into hiding and I am sure get him out another day.

Sick Boy

Kyle is not feeling very well. He had a visit to the doctor this morning and he has RSV and a GI infection. He has spent most of the day watching "Hotdog" (Mickey).
(It is a good thing I had several saved on the DVR.)
He gets little spurts of wanting to play but that does not last too long, then he is back to feeling crummy.
I just hope my little guy is feeling better soon.






Cole is checking on his buddy Kyle. He wants him to feel better so they can play together.



Due to this, potty training has been temporarily put on hold.

Potty Time

*Warning this post contains potty words! :)
We have been sort-of potty training Kyle the last few weeks. If he says something we put him on it, if we ask, he sits on it. He always goes a little pee pee each time. There have been a few poo poos. He has even sat on the potty a few times at Aunt Erica's.
So I decided since I have off this week I will give it a real try.

Here are my thoughts or observations on how it is going so far...

- This could be difficult! But I know he can do it.
- I have no real plan, just going by what works each day.
- Sometimes he wants a yogurt puff for sitting on the potty, the next day it is an M&M and today it is goldfish.
- He always asks for TWO of whatever he gets that day.
- He can completely control his pee pee. He will let a little out, get excited, want it flushed and then do it again.
- He loves to wave bye bye to his product.
- He calls both pee pee and poo poo, "poo poo."
- At least 4 times after he gets of the potty within 5 minutes he goes poo poo in his diaper!!! That little stinker!
- I know that Brian is glad he is away the week I decide to really try.
- If this week does not work there is always plenty of time in the summer.
- I know that this can be done, now it is up to Mommy and Kyle working together!

Right now as I am typing this we are trying another strategy. He does not like to sit on the potty for a long time(we have read lots of books and sung lots of songs).
So today he is watching "hotdog" eating a snack and sitting on the potty.






I will update to let you know how much progress we make at the end of the week.

Cheesin it Up

Tonight Kyle was very busy moving his chairs around. He had to line them up just perfectly.



Once the chairs were the way he wanted he sat down and said "eeeeeeeese." He kept saying it over and over. He got frustrated, walked over to me "pulled" me up and brought me the camera. I said "do you want me to take your picture?"
He said "yeah" and went back to siting in his chair saying "eeeeeeeese."

So of course I took his picture.




EEEEEEEEEEESSSSEEEE