Potty Training

Day 5

Success! That word defines our day. The girls didn't have any accidents all day! Tonight we all went to the church so I could work on some visiting teaching things. One bonus from that was Shanna and Haley each went to the bathroom there. I am glad they successfully used a public restroom and it happened to be at the church--the first public restroom they would have used anyway. (Here's hoping for a dry nursery time!) This way on Sunday when we make our mad dash stops to the bathrooms, using the toilet there won't be a big deal. (I hope!) They've already seen it and used it! Another success: Haley stayed dry ALL night! She fell asleep right before 8pm Wednesday night. Thursday morning (today) she woke Lee up a little after 6am saying she had to go potty. Yeah! I am sure there are more night accidents to come, but knowing that she can go all night is great. We ended the great day with some yummy rolls. I think of you every time I make them Cindy!

Potty Training

Day 4

This day was similar to Day 3. Overall the girls did well with a couple of accidents. They sure want their candy after they go to the bathroom. Once again they wet their beds; but, I was really glad because Haley woke up after it happened instead of sleeping through it. That is progress! I am hoping tomorrow will be accident free. On a funny note, my boys have been saying "booty" lately (for gluteus maximus, not treasure), which I don't care for. Tonight while Lee was gone we all had some ice cream. Haley sang out "Yummy for my booty!" Ahhh...if that were only true.

Potty Training

Day 3

Things went fairly well. The girls are starting to control their bladders a little better--meaning fewer bathroom trips. I think they had once accident each on Tuesday, so not too bad. They both wet their beds again though. We haven't had to sit in the bathroom as near as much as with the boys, which is nice!

Potty Training

Day 2

The starting of day 2 was somewhat discouraging. Sunday night/Monday morning they both wet their beds. At least Shanna woke up crying. Overall Shanna was doing great, but not Haley. While I was gone exercising/grocery shopping, they both had success! I was very grateful for that! Overall Shanna and Haley did pretty well with only a few accidents during the day on Monday. After they get the "day" thing down, we will really have to start working on the "night" thing. The girls went cold--straight to underwear. That is what I did with my boys and I don't intend on buying any pull-ups for my girls either. I just have to keep reminding myself that we just started potty-training and that they are still adjusting their bodies to this whole new experience. I just hope they will learn to go to the bathroom 3 or 4 times a day instead of 8 or 9 times! But like I said, it has only been 2 days...

Potty Training

Day 1

We started the girls around 4 pm last night. Shanna surprised us because she wanted a diaper back on! I am glad she didn't find any--we didn't put one back on her either. Once Shanna found out that she could get candy for using the toilet she did pretty well the rest of the evening. She probably went to the bathroom more than normal though! With Haley, she didn't use the toilet at all. We are going to have to sit in the bathroom a lot with her. She doesn't mind the wet underwear either. Good thing Lee is home to help me. Of course when it was time to go to bed the girls wanted to sit a lot on the toilet!

A brief update...

We had a fun week, with not too much going on. Tuesday Lee went on a "blitz" to locate people on the church records that haven't been in awhile. Lee made some cookies and brought them for the guys and missionaries to have before the blitz. I worked on Visiting Teaching items again on Wednesday. There was a nice little "storm" here on Friday and Clark had a 2 hour early release from school. Of course with it being stormy and all, I took all the kids with me and we went shopping. It actually was just snowing. People in Minnesota would laugh that school was released two hours early. The trip to the store went pretty well, but because I don't want my kids running all over I pulled around 2 shopping carts with me. Clark and Cal helped a little pushing them, so that was nice. After that we picked up Lee. He even got off work an hour and a half early!

Friday night Clark and Cal went to a birthday party and the rest of us watched The Swan Princess. Kind of a weird cartoon. I am not a huge animation fan, but I had seen clips of this particular movie and wanted to see the whole thing. Saturday was really nice out...even though it was cold. The sun was shining with no wind--not that I noticed anyway--making it a great day to go sledding!!! This was our first time going sledding with our whole family. Well, my friend Kristi watched Elden for us, which was great! Since we aren't very equipped with winter stuff we tried to think of what we could go sledding on. We decided to pull out the floaty tubes. We borrowed some sleds from Kristi too. I have to say, the floaty tubes were awesome! The tiny $1 Strawberry Shortcake tube was the best! I am going to have to stock up on those this summer. I looked for sleds when we went shopping on Friday. One was for $15, the other for $20. No thanks! Our same friend also loaned us Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. We watched it that night. A cute movie. Thanks Kristi for a fun Saturday!

Sunday evening we started potty-training the girls. It's going okay with Shanna...Haley is another story!