Tomorrow is the first day of October – which means an entire month of Halloween fun stuff! Get your fill of cuteness and enter to win an adorable Halloween t-shirt over at Crunchy Domestic Goddess.
And also check out the rest of her stuff at Cute as a Bug, I am so getting A. one of these shirts if, and when, we survive the training.
Certainly hoped we would never have to utter those words to our girls. But apparently, Addison does NOT care for her pull-up any longer.
She is doing incredibly great with the whole potty training thing. We have been all over the city, running errands, always prepared with a back-up change of clothing, of course, but we haven’t had one accident. She really likes her big girl panties.
She, however, (much like her older sister) does not care to, uh…do the #2 in the potty, yet. (Sorry, if that is a little too much information for you. If it was – you might want to skip the rest of this post. I’m just saying, the “poop” talk isn’t over.)
So, again just like Emma did, Ad “saves” up her poop-duty for naptime. And I have been attempting to put a pull-up on her in preparation for the event.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that she is working really, really hard on trying to give up her nap completely. Well at least when I put her down…she does still nap for Denise. (Grumble, grumble, grumble.)
Yesterday, I gathered her up and so hopefully put her down for a “rest.” After about an hour, she started complaining pretty loudly. I let her go for a little bit, and finally J. caved and went up to get her. Pretty soon he sent Em down and she gleefully informed me, “Addie pooped the bed! Daddy really needs some wipes and paper towel.”
Fantastic. Apparently when he got upstairs, all of her animals, blankets, books, etc. were tossed out of the crib. She was standing completely naked (she was fully dressed when I put her down – including bottom-half of Cinderelly) at one end of the crib screaming about the little “pile” at the other end of the crib.
Today, when I so optimistically put her down for her “rest,” I figured there is no way that we’ll have a repeat of yesterday. I truly am naive, you’d think with 4+ years of this mom-thing under my belt, I would be a little bit smarter about all of this.
You can, of course, see where this is going. We’ve been through three sets of sheets in the past two days. Anybody have any ideas how to keep the pull-up on her butt? Believe me, I am not above using duct tape, if that is what it takes.
(Hi Mom & Dad – I know, I know. At least she just “screams” at the poo, and doesn’t smear it, use it for paint, or something else….what did you do to keep my pants on??)
FRIDAY!
And that is how we feel about the weekend around here.
Hope yours is great. See you Monday.
FRIDAY!
And that is how we feel about the weekend around here.
Hope yours is great. See you Monday.
My mom is a breast cancer survivor, and I know several other women who are survivors, and well…I just think this is very cool.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October, just days away!), AstraZeneca has designed an interactive program, called Celebration Chain, to honor women with breast cancer and celebrate their unique qualities – while raising money for research.
On the Celebration Chain website, you can create free virtual dolls designed to reflect real women who have overcome or are currently battling breast cancer who you’d like to honor, both in looks and personality. AstraZeneca will donate $1 to breast cancer research for every doll created up to $25,000. You can learn more about the program and make your doll by visiting http://www.celebrationchain.com/celebration.com
It is lots of fun, and FREE. Go make some dolls and honor survivors in your life! I am off to do mine!
(Thanks Heather for the heads-up!)
Whaaat’s that?
Oh, hey! Good to see you here…you just caught me daydreaming about how wonderous it will be when I do not have to buy any sort of diaper, pull-up, or pee/poop containment apparel.
The day is so close, I can almost taste it.
After a pretty successful potty day (while out running errands, no less!) yesterday, and a couple viewings of Potty Power! (thanks so much, Amy!), little A. decided that we needed to wear big girl underwear this morning.
And at time of posting, we still have the same underwear on, dry underwear, coinciding with five or six successful visits to the potty. (We are talking 7+ hours here, people!)
This is one of those milestones which I will not be writing tearful goodbyes about. But I am just a little bit leery, I mean it really is going to be this easy with her? Really?
Maybe God figured I had enough trauma with the months and months of “training” with Emma and I deserve a painless, quick experience this time around. Or maybe the DVD does have some sort of subliminal messaging that really gets into their little brains. Or maybe just having a big sister like Emma, who happens to be the biggest cheerleader ever, is the catalyst to becoming a “big girl.”
Whatever it is, I am waiting with bated breath while knocking on wood, keeping my fingers crossed, and employing any other superstition or trick I can, just hoping that we are on our way to having two little “big” girls.
I have the cutest, proudest photo of A. wearing her new undies this morning for the first time, but I am very apprehensive to post it. It makes me very mad that I have to feel this way – but I will send it out to family and friends via email. If you really want to see it, leave a comment or send me a mail and I’ll send it along.
Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with this photo of A. as she is yelling “Potty Power!”
And just because my blog has been turning a bit into a photo-blog as of late, I’ll throw in one more of Addie.
All eyes on the prize…also note, a new princess gown in the rotation. I almost prefer the Cinderelly skirt, though. It was less trouble.
Cinderelly?
Meet the newest princess, Belle.
I have been trying to budget my time to fit in some more scrapbooking this week, however – sadly, I am still not very effective and only completed 2 pages again this week. I am so envious of Kimmer, she attended an all-weekend scrap this past weekend – she better have some good stuff to show today!
First up, I got this paper this month from my scrapbook club and with the fall-like weather around these parts this past weekend, I felt a little inspired. This was 4 weeks after Addie was born, her first trip to the pumpkin patch. I incorporated four (count ’em!) different papers and used chalk to “vintage-up” the chipboard and some of the papers. Getting a little crazy around here…
(As always click for the bigs.)
Next up. Might be one of my all-time favorite layouts. I love the simplicity of this and the fact that it celebrates Em and her best friend, Lauren. Had a hard time deciding on photos for this one, though.
What sort of craftiness have you been up to lately? Bring it on.
