Potty Training and Some Randomness Not to be Forgotten...

Yup. Ava is being potty trained this week. I would have to say so far so good. We started on Tuesday. The morning didn't start off too good, but that is what I expected. After 2-3 accidents, she went pee-pee in the potty. I was at the Doctor's office with Noah and I got the text saying "she did it". After that, there were no more accidents that day, just one on day two. Day 3 she didn't have one accident. Day 4 and 5 have had one accident each.

The hardest part for her was going poo-poo. She just couldn't do it. I was getting worried by day 3 because she hadn't gone at all and this is a 1-2 times a day type of girl. This is how it went down. On Day 3, I had my eye on her like a hawk. I noticed her going over to her "poop corner" and then she started to bend forward with this look on her face. (I know Ava, you are going to hate me for this when you get older and read this, sorry princess!)  I immediately got her to the potty and she hovered over and made poo-poo! Yay! Yay! Of course as soon as she started, the pest control people came. I had to leave to show him where we had noticed some bees buzzing around a rock and going under in the back yard.. I left and she finished up. She got 4 M&M's and a new whimsy pet (Booster Rooster). She was so happy. Me too, so much so that I took a picture and texted it to my mom and Mike!

I am not asking her to go potty too much over the next couple of days. I want her to come to me. In fact, I had to put Noah down for his nap and I came out of his room and she said, "Look Mommy, I went pee-pee". She pulled her underwear down on her own and went potty.

I am so happy that she is starting the potty training process, but it poses so many more logistical things. I asked her if she wanted to go potty on the big potty and she said "Grammie goes potty on the big potty and Ava goes on the little potty". Yes, that is true, but how do we ever go anywhere. That will be my next task after a week of good training.

She is staying dry for the most part at nap time and bed time. This morning she did wake up with a wet diaper, but I expected it because she drank a bunch of water before bed and wouldn't go pee. These are things we have to think about now.

I accidentally taught Ava how to turn the lights on today. You know it is one of those moments that you take to teach your child how to do something and as soon as you say it, you regret it immediately. She was turning the light switches off and I told her to turn them back on. She stood on her tiptoes, but just couldn't reach it, so I told her to get her stool and turn it on. She immediately said "ok". Then she got excited and she would look around the house for a light switch and turned ALL of them on and wouldn't turn them off. Oh well. Hopefully she will forget that she learned how to do it!!


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Noah had a doctor's appointment on Tuesday for his Rotovirus shot. He weighed in at 18 lbs 2.5 oz! He is getting so big.

I started Noah on solids a while ago and have since realized that he has some food intolerance's. He did fine in the beginning. It may be that I started with veggies and he is more tolerant of them. Recently his sleep has been in the crapper again. After talking with the GI specialists nurse, she felt he was right where he should be for his meds and we talked about solids. She said that he could have some problems with them. So I immediately went online to see what I could find and indeed something that Noah ate a day or two ago can still be bothering him. With a cow's milk protein allergy, it is best to go slow. Real Slow. So I took him off the solids except the rice cereal which he has been ok with.  I will keep him on that for a week to see if we have any improvement. Then I will have to introduce one new solid at a time for a week to see what happens. If I don't see an improvement in a week on just rice cereal, I will take him off that and see what happens. If nothing there, then maybe it is teeth or just a change in what has been going in our house. It is always a mystery!!!

He is becoming very vocal lately. He wakes up in the morning and will talk for a good 20 minutes. I can tell that he is trying to make new noises because they come out squeaky. It is really cute.

When I put him on the floor, he will turn to get his toys. Still no rolling over, but at least he is trying to move.

He is sitting up on his own pretty good now. I still sit behind him and keep my legs out to catch him if he falls, but he is doing really well so far.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the past 2 days:



Sibling Love









Love that outfit!





Found my toes and I love to suck on them.





Squeeze