Birthday, trains and POTTY TRAINING!

November 11th, 2011  "At any given time these days, Aaron has on at least two braclets.  The other day he had on a pig rattle bracelet, 20 silly bands and 2 hair ties."

Aarons interests are ever changing, but trains have been a more lasting interest.  After we gave away his trains to move here, he was so sad that I promised him we would get him a train set when we got to Germany.  He also still misses and asks about his lamb, which we left in a hotel in Arizona in February, and were unable to locate.


His birthday, honestly, came and went.  We were so busy and just not settled enough yet to have any kind of meaningful celebration.

After another week, we were settled enough to actually buy some cake and ice cream, and we invited the neighbors to officially have a birthday for Aaron.

His birthday began with a surprise!  Lamby came back from his Arizona vacation, after "having had a bath and gaining some weight from all the food he ate."  (shhhhh....he was ordered from amazon.uk)

We said "no gifts" just come eat with us, but the Timmers surprised Aaron with a set of balloons, new pants and 2 shirts, a painting set with painting paper, and even brought Timmy a memory game so that he would have something to open.

 Erika Abraham and her son Andras also joined us, and brought Aaron a really cool flap book with tractors and trucks.  He loves it! 

We ate plum cake and cheese cake with ice cream and drank some typical German drinks....sprüdel (mineral water), roboos tea, and juice.  Then, we pried the boys from the paint set to have Aaron open his train. 

He loves his train!  The best part about it, is that we only gave him a little cirle, 2 trains and a couple accessories to start.  But the set I bought (used from Kalaydo) has hundreds of pieces!   We decided to give him a piece every time he goes on the potty.  Easily enough, he decided that he would LOVE to go potty to get a new train piece 10 times a day.  His train has grown and grown this week, and he asks me "Can I go pee-pee again???" and I say "Yeah!  You can go as many times as you want, and get a train piece every time!!"  And he's like "OKAY!" and runs to the bathroom.

So, he's been in "big boy underpants" now for 7 days.  He's only had a few accidents and runs to tell me, cleans it up himself.  I figure I'll give him another week and then we can probably go ahead and buy some rugs! :)      Here is the whole train set.  It will take him a least a whole second week to get all the peices.