Travis traveled to Florida this week, leaving on Sunday morning and got back Wednesday afternoon. It was a tough 4 days but the girls and I managed to have a really nice time, in stretches. :) Now we're on to plan Audrey's birthday party on Sunday. Can you believe she'll be TWO??
I haven't been updating this blog as much lately because much of my typing effort is being done on the ohcrappottytraining.com forum. Last Saturday was the first day of our Reset, so we threw out the diapers and she was happy to try pottying again. Each day had more and more accidents until yesterday, when she had only one success early in the morning and varying styles of poop and pee accidents the rest of the day. So frustrating!! I finally looked her square in the eyes and told her she MUST stay dry. She MUST put it in the potty. No more accidents - it all goes IN the potty. And this morning, I got her up onto the potty as we were getting ready to go to ms. Teri's, and she refused. I reinforced what I told her last night, and then just left her in the bathroom while I went to wake up Emily. Lo and behold, she took down her pants, climbed up there all on her own, and went!! I heard her from their bedroom, and then her little shout of delight. So, something about laying the smack down and setting the expectations did it for her - only one accident today and she was seriously distracted by play-do. And she was home with her Dad, who hasn't laid the smack down yet ;) and he didn't probably know the last time she had gone at daycare. But she was even dry after nap!! Rockstar! the advice i got on OhCrap was that I've gotta be 100% all-in, because Audrey is sensing my hatred for the process and assumes I will fix it to make that go away. But I'm stubborn - I'm going to make Audrey fix it. heh heh!!
So I went back over this blog, and found a particularly insane rant of mine from April 2010, when Emily was going through her casual pooping phase. I essentially did the same thing to her, although I phrased it as "hitting bottom." I told her I was NOT dealing with that any more, and she was going to put ALL of it in the potty. I don't know if doing that sooner might have shortened her phase down from 4 months to something more reasonable, but I'm glad to have at least caught on with audrey!
Now, to something less excrement-related. The girls and I went out and picked up pizza for supper the other night, and they really enjoyed that. The next night, we ate random leftovers and then went to Coldstone where I spent a coupon to get us all ice cream for super cheap. It was a lovely evening, and we even ate outside!! In November!
Halloween was really fun, too. We went down the street on Beggar's night (Sunday night - yup, Travis missed out!) with our neighbors across the street, who Emily adores. Okay, I adore them too. They're an awesome family. Anyway, we tagged along with them down the hill, but the girls and I came back because half an hour was plenty for them, and their buckets were plenty full by my standards. :) They were the cutest little bumblebees!! They also got to be bumblebees at an outing that was sponsored by my workplace, out at Sleepy Hollow Sportspark. It was really fun, and they had set it up pretty well for young families. It was pretty fun! A pretty successful Halloween, I must say!
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