Potty training successes!!!!

Warning: I am sure this is a boring post for anyone but ME, but since it's my baby book..I had to document it while I am so proud and excited. :)


I am such a proud Mommy today I thought I better blog it now before it fades into my memory. :) I tried potty training Leeza via "the 3 day method" on May 2nd. The 3 day method has you get rid of the diapers, put on big girl panties, and don't leave the house. The premise is that you stick by their side very closely (no facebook, blogs, etc..the horror) so that you can IMMEDIATELY rush them to the potty when they start to have accidents. I really did not think it could work, as it took a lot longer to potty train Sean and he was 3 years old, but lotsa Kaz kids were having success and we were out of diapers, so I thought we'd give it "the ole college try."
The 3 day lady also says that ALL kids are ready at 22 months (Leeza was 19 months)..and it could take longer if your child is younger...but it could be done, but that your child should be waking up dry. Leeza wears Huggies Overnight diapers so that tells you she doesn't wake up dry...but I wanted to try. After cleaning up puddle, after puddle, after puddle, after puddle, after puddle, I knew the 3 day was not our golden ticket. I bought some pull ups and some books on how cool it was to go on the potty, and we kept at it, sans the puddles. Something must have clicked during those 3 days, as Leeza started telling me when she had to go. She never had any more "#2 accidents" but she had lots of piddles.

So..here we are, exactly 3 weeks after starting "the program" and we had some MAJOR MILESTONES today and yesterday. She told me this morning she had to "poo poo" (she calls everything poo poo, doesn't matter if it's pee ..it's all poo poo to her) and I said, OK, LET'S RUN TO THE POTTY..HURRY HURRY!!" Low and behold..she was still DRY and she peed in her potty. I was encouraged!!! We had a couple more incidents like that and I thought..could it be..is she starting to get it??

We spent a couple hours at our new IKEA store in Tampa (what a cool store that is!) where Leeza happily rode in mommy's ergo while we toured the massive facility all the while with Daddy's sarcastic comments that he felt like we were in an amusement park. We got some fun new bath mats for the bathroom, and a cool fish mat, and a new shower curtain liner, and Leeza picked out a soft plush blue and white soccer ball. :) Anyway-after that, we picked up dinner for Joe's parents at Beef O Brady's and Leeza told me she had to go. Leeza and I hung out in the parking lot of Beef O Brady's and Leeza totally had potty success! Her pull up was just barely wet..and that was after close to 3 hours in the car to and from Tampa and at Ikea!




The look on her face when she peed on the potty was just priceless. She was SO PROUD! Big Kudos to the travel potty and the iphone for capturing this moment for eternity. (It was the first picture I posted)

Here was her face when I told her I was posting it to facebook...



Honestly, I was a pretty proud momma when that happened..but IT JUST GETS BETTER! We were on a walk when we got home and she tells me "Momma Poo Poo" so we had to cut our walk short (darn it!) and we came home where she peed like a good girl.

THEN-after bath, I was letting her run around naked while I was checking on some emails. She was running around pushing her stroller and then I didn't see her anymore. I IMMEDIATELY got up to find her because her new favorite thing is unraveling all the toilet paper and dumping it in the potty. I call her name and she comes out of the bathroom...all smiles. I am thinking.."Oh, no, she did it again...the toilet paper is a GONER...." but no!!

She sat on the potty and did her business (#1 and #2-sorry to be graphic but you know she will love reading this some day...) ALL BY HERSELF. She didn't call for us, she didn't JUST GO ON THE FLOOR (THAT IS HUGE!!!), BUT she went in and did her business like a BIG GIRL SHOULD!

Maybe, just maybe, after we run out of pull ups we can try the big girl panties again. Something has DEFINTELY clicked with her and I am SO PROUD OF MY LIL GIRL!

Next step is trying to eliminate the "big potty" anxiety. She can't go on the big potty..she doesn't cry anymore, but she just.can't.go. I got a really cool lil foldable seat with flaps and handles from Onestepahead.com that is shipping to us, I am hoping that will help. But hey..ONE STEP AT A TIME!

I'm a very very proud and happy mommy. I made up some crazy potty songs and did all kinds of cheers tonight. Leeza was eatin it up...but I also saw a glint in her eye where was she so thinking..."My mom is SO BIZARRE"....

Oh..check out her fun new bow..It's a purse! with bling!! for my Lil Miss Thing!!

New summer "do" for Sean..."high and tight"

I couldn't believe my ears when Sean tells me he wants to get a "buzz cut" for the summer. Is this the same child who whines and moans everytime he has to get a trim?

Here are the "before" shots....













Here are the "during" shots (Man-I really do love my iphone..so convenient!)












I really LOVE the way it turned out. He looks SO MUCH OLDER. Amber and I were like "oh my gosh, he looks so handsome". I said, "Oh my gosh, MY BABY!" Sean told me "to calm down" and if I couldn't to "please leave the room". Is that not a typical pre-teen response??? I actually LIKE his hair shorter. I still am in shock it was all his idea. My baby is growing up...middle school next year...yikes!





The "after" shots...my handsome son. I get weepy just looking at them.













Leeza got a lil trim too...Amber says if we keep it trimmed, it will keep "thickening up". Leeza was pretty good-and then Mommy got a haircut too and Leeza helped shampoo. :)














And of course, just a few cute shots of her "making herself at home" at the salon.
She is a crackup!!

The Mother you never had....

Bathtime fun


Sean comes up with the most HILARIOUS and INANE things that he says and I always forget to write them all down. I am trying to get better about that and thanks to this blog thing, I am doing a little bit better.

Today, we went to the grocery store after church. I usually put Leeza in the ergo but she was all decked out in a VERY lovely dress that was a gift from a very special friend and I didn't think she should be "hidden" in the ergo.







Sean wanted to push her in the "car cart" at Publix. The "car carts" are certainly cute..BUT SUPER hard to manuver, espeically in a crowded store. I tried it once with Sean when he was little and said 'NEVER AGAIN!' Of course, Leeza is ENTHRALLED with it. Sean almost knocked out a few people in the course of shopping-but no one was hurt and Leeza (and Sean) had some good fun. I was telling Sean to be careful that I never used to the car cart with him because it was just TOO HARD. I told him Leeza sure was lucky. Sean looks at Leeza and says .."Leeza...I'm the mom you never had"









Sean can really DRIVE me insane with his sassy mouth and his new 11 year old attitude, but I have to say...he is a VERY FUN big brother. Leeza ADORES him, even when he is "torturing" her bunny by throwing him up on the ledge above the front door, or "yelling" at her to "get out of his area". Sean was still asleep this morning and Leeza comes around the corner with Sean's cell phone "talking" away then looks at me with her index finger and says "No no no" as she KNOWS she is NOT ALLOWED to take Sean's phone. LOL...yes she knows..but, does she care? NO WAY!
He is also teaching her habits I am not crazy about-but she will learn those in time anyway (I guess!!) but to see the two of them together always makes me smile. :)

She loves to "push" him in her ride on toy (that she won't ride on, she only likes to push it). She is a brute-Sean weights 106 lbs and she lugs him all around the house. Sigh..I guess we have a good use for a stinky pre-teen. :)