Potty Training

I have to say the entire potty training process has been going way easier than I ever thought possible. Deegan is outdoing is sister big time. Well, he just pees more often than her. He has gone two days (knock on wood) with no accidents during the day, nap or nighttime. During bath last night he said he needed to get out to go pee, at 1145pm he woke up and said he had to pee, and during running around playing soccer tonight he stopped and said he had to pee. He was having so much fun playing he didn't even want his sticker, he just took off and ran right back outside to continue his soccer kicking. Today he also tried twice to poop in the toilet, to no success though. He really wants this tractor toy he's been eyeballing at the store. I told him when he poops in the toilet I'll buy it for him.

Kenna is slower at understanding the sensation. She gets squirmy and almost runs circles before screaming out in almost a cry, "I gotta pee!". She gets so excited when she makes it happen though. They get a sticker on the chart, a Jellybelly (they love those) and two M&M's. I upped the rewards during the second day of training in hopes to get her moving faster. Now I'm kind of stuck with all this candy reward for awhile. I don't mind though, it works and it makes them happy. They both got a new toy for hitting five successful trips. I didn't realize my son was going to rack up 18 stickers in three days! So the rewards are going to slow down by the end of this week for sure.

I'm in love with their toilet seat insert too. I decided to skip the separate potty chair on the floor and hit the big pot with the seat insert. Well, I did buy one of those and had it in Poland but they never used it for it's real purpose. They would sit on it while one of us adults were doing our own business. It converts to a step stool, so no money lost since it's in storage somewhere anyway. Okay, back to the insert, I opted to go with the all plastic, no foam padding for sanitary purposes. Also read that some kids don't want to pee on their favorite character. So I stuck with white and it doesn't even phase them. Funny how we as parents get caught up in "must have characters on everything" Anyhow, highly recommend the Baby Bjorn seat insert.

Speaking of characters, Deegan these days is still in love with CARS characters. Kenna favors Dora. They both love to watch Diego, Team Umizoomi and more recently into WOW WOW WUBBZY. Oh Max & Ruby is a winner here and there, as is Franklin. Wow, that's a lot of morning cartoons, these kids need to get into school.

That's the plan, preschool this fall. We have two on our agenda to go check out and see what they have to offer. Merryhill is way expensive (we're talking about two kids here) but high quality curriculum and not sure what the Lutheran school has to offer yet, except it's 1/2 the price of Merryhill.

No confirmation news on the house. Last Thursday the seller's agent said the HUD (financial form requested and needed for Lender) was finally received (that took a month) and we should have heard something last Friday or this recent Monday. But....here we're the second day into the new week and still no word. I must check my email 99 times a day hoping to hear something. When I do see one message in the inbox my heart races. Then I'm continually let down. I turned off my YAHOO alert for messages because it just kills me to hear the yodel and then not be anything important..and not even a "hi" from the Hubby as often as I'd like. He needs to stop being so busy.

I think Mr busy busy is done with school tomorrow and should be headed to Vegas this coming weekend after a detour to Phoenix to pick up the Avalanche and Comet. Oh how I miss driving my truck. We're looking into getting a furnished apartment so we can come together later next month as a family while waiting to get the house. We did it in San Antonio, although no kids, but we had Babe. It worked out great, fully furnished and all utilities while we waited for our house to be finished being built. Why not do it Vegas too? We don't want to settle on a house, we're looking for a unique property as well as a small investment opportunity.

Okay, I'm tired and have been rambling on. This has been a nice detour from working on my homework tonight. Thanks for listening, good night.