The leaves are falling

I just love the smokey smell in the air and the sound of leaves crunching underfoot...Fall is here! It was extra chilly tonight, but we still spent time running around in the back yard.

Its hard to believe our trip to Washington is coming up this week! We are so excited to see everyone! I'm sure our families are going to be surprised with just how much Lily has changed.

She has become such a big girl that when we woke up this morning, she actually said, "Potty." So I put her on the little seat and she was right--she had to go potty!

Lily started waking up dry when she was seven months old, but a few minutes later, she would have a really full, wet diaper. So when she turned eight months old we went to Babies R Us and let her pick out a potty chair (Yes, she picked it out after we let her sit in a few different ones.) We brought home the cutest pink Baby Bjorn potty seat and she used it the very next day!

Since then, I put her on the seat after she wakes up every morning and in five months, there have been only a handful of times that she hasn't used it. Just recently, she also started giving us occasional signs when her diaper needs to be changed throughout the day: Sometimes she points at it, a few times she actually brought me a diaper from her bedroom!

I never wanted to rush Lily into potty training, so our approach has always been relaxed. I guess now we just need to incorporate her little seat into our day more often. I think we're going to keep things simple, like adding it right before bedtime and see how that goes. Its crazy to remember what life was like a year ago and compare it to our life now...Lily is not the same baby she used to be!