Potty Update.

Sooo today was a long day. My girly started off in her big girl undies, she did great all morning telling me when she had to pee. I was really proud of her. We made it through lunch, no accidents! And on to nap time! On the advice of a friend I put a diaper over her panties (since she didn't want to take them off) for nap time... that way if she wet, she could wake up and tell me. Well this is where it all backfired on me. She woke up with a massive messy poo, and it scared her badly. She cried and cried the whole time I changed her and cleaned her up - she was really upset that she'd ruined her big girl panties... I put a diaper on her since she was so upset, and for the next hour every time I'd say her name she'd just BAWL. My poor girly. She was so proud of herself earlier this morning, I kept telling her over and over that it was okay, accidents happen, you're doing great, but that didn't seem to help much. It was so obvious. She was disappointed in herself! It made me so sad to see her like that! I don't want her to feel pressured at all. :( After an hour or so she was fine though. She spent the rest of the evening (with a diaper) telling me each time she had to potty. She's funny, she *has* to have a book when she goes though. (Can you tell how many times she's decided to use the potty when daddy was going?) LOL Cracks me up - she kept pulling me in with her, "Mommy potty! Here! Book!" hahaha she makes me smile.

So I guess it wasn't a complete failure, just a rocky time this afternoon - tomorrow I'll just put her in a pull up for nap time, if she poo's oh well. At least it fits like a diaper. I'm keeping her home from school tomorrow, she was still coughing a bit this morning and as unhappy as I was with the other mom who let their kid go to school sick, I refuse to do it to the other kids in her class - even if she's pretty much over it. Nobody will ever accuse me of being that lazy of a parent. UGH (major pet peeve of mine) ;)

Anyway, tomorrow's a new day. We'll try again... we took a nature walk today! We walked around the neighborhood (big girl didn't want her stroller... she held my hand and walked beside me the whole way!) and identified leaves, flowers, grass, tree's, the sky, etc. It was fun just being outside and quiet with her... she get's really excited when she see's something new and asks what it is.. (eg: Palm tree's stumped her) It was cute.

So that's it for today - nothing pregnancy related to offer today... I realized that someday I'll love looking back at these updates on Lizzy - I wish I'd have blogged her first two years as well... oh well, hindsight is 20/20 and all that. Let's hope tomorrow's more successful! :)

Leap of Faith.

So I decided that I'm going to work with Lizzy this week on potty training. So far it's been pretty casual, we haven't really pushed it - we just sit her on the potty before bed and bath time, if she goes great and if not we don't worry about it. But lately I've noticed she *really* wants to learn - anything and everything. She's been asking all kinds of questions, about everything under the sun. And I think with a little guidance and effort she might just be ready to potty train... maybe not - but we shall see.

She's currently wearing her big girl panties right now. I know we'll probably have lots of accidents - but I figure while we're stuck at home (my car's still broke) I might as well make the most of it and let her stay close to a potty while she's learning. :)

We shall see! I'll keep y'all updated - it might be too soon but I figure we'll give it a few days and see how we do. I'd love to have her pottytrained before Christmas, and with any luck we might just make it long before that!

Week 15 Pic.

Lizzy's finally getting it, I think. LOL When asked where the baby is - she runs right to my tummy... of course if daddy asks where the baby is she goes right to his tummy. :P

15 Weeks!

Wow I have to say this week went fast! I woke up this morning in the best mood. Lizzy's feeling a little better - no more snots, just that funky cough every now and then. Jay's outside under the car getting ready to replace a water filter - sound easy? He has to drop the whole engine to do it. Fun times. Poor guy spent almost all day yesterday working on it and he'll be on it the better part of today too. And chances are I'll be without a car for a few days this week... but you know what? That's ok! If the weather continue's like this Lizzy and I can walk everywhere!!!! Amazing how good it feels when the weather drops from the high 90's to the mid 80's. This is amazing! Still plenty warm (if not hot in the afternoons) but in the morning/evening's it's only in the high 70's which is pure bliss. I'm absolutely loving this weather. :) If I could move somewhere where it was this temp year round - let me tell you, I'd be one happy girl!

I'll take pics later - I'm wearing a tube top type shirt right now and I'm not sure if that's appropriate for a picture. LOL It shows off my arm pudge. ;)

Anyway! 15 weeks and our wee one is about 4 inches long! I've gotten many kicks and jabs this week - nothing painful or noticeable from the outside yet - but I love getting them. I can't *WAIT* (have I said this before?) for next Thursday!!!! A week and a half from now we'll find out if the wee one has a hot dog or a hamburger! (As my pregnancy update so sweetly put it) hahaha made me giggle, I just had to throw that in there. LOL

Pic to come in a bit. :)

Sick Day.

So I knew this was coming... kiddo got her first preschool cold. Or bug. Or something of that nature... I noticed last night she had an occassional funky cough. But it sounded fake - however, she never fake coughs so I was thinking it was probably the begining of something. And I was right. Fast forward to 7 am. She's up with a snotty nose and bad cough. Fun times... I load her up with vitamins, Oj and whole wheat toast for breakfast - within an hour her tummy's upset, and she tells me too. Mommy! Tummy! :( Poor baby. So first diaper change - up the back, out the sides, down her legs - throw her tush in the bathtub. There she plays for about 10 minutes before Jay calls and says - by the way - I forgot to put the pieces back in the van so before you sell he rodeo today you better do any errands you needed to do b/c you won't have the car until I get home and fix it. Great. So I load my not feeling good toddler up, go run a couple errands, end up at walmart where I need to pick up some groceries... Lizzy starts saying Owie Tummy. So I pick her up and she lays her head on my shoulder while I'm steering a cart around walmart trying to hurry up and get the heck out of there. I picked up some meds for her and out we go - walk in our front door - another explosive diaper. At least we made it home. Back in the tub (that's how messy these were) change of clothes, the whole nine yards. Almost lunch time. She wants green beans. So I give her green beans - I figure those are pretty mild. Then she wants macaroni and cheese - Ok that's not too bad either so I whip some up and she eats about three bites and wants to go play... mommy dress! On goes the cinderella dress. 5 minutes later? Mommy tummy.... off goes the poopy dress, clothes, diaper, 10 wipes later I put some pj's on her and put her in bed for her nap.

*sigh* It's been a loooooooooooooong day. And even more fun - now I'm feeling yucky. It's 7pm and Jay's not home from work yet. I'm glad it's Friday and we can just chill together tomorrow. Hopefully this is just a 24 hour bug and Liz will be over it by Tuesday and can go back to school. I know one of those snot nose little buggers gave her this cold. *grrrr* But I'll keep her on her vitamins and healthy veggies and such - hopefully with enough Vitamin C and Iron in her diet she can kick this pretty quick.

That's all for now... my house smells like poo. I just spent 20 minutes ridding every room of anything that smells like poopy and covering all the rooms in baby powder. Now my house smells like a powdered poopy diaper. Wee.

Countdown Begins.

To 3 that is. Yes I gave Lizzy a new ticker today... I loved watching her draw closer to 2... and now my baby girl is working her way towards the world of 3 years old! I suppose the terrible two's may be headed our way eventually, but so far she's still an absolute joy to be around most of the time. I picked her up from preschool today and her teacher said "Miss Elizabeth showed us all her dancing skills today!" (Uhhhhh she has dancing skills?) Apparently so. She gave them quite a giggle. LOL She's really adjusted to her preschool class - loves going, doesn't cry when I leave and talks about her friends all day long. First words out of her mouth this morning? "Sydney!!! Ava!!! School!!" LOL She actually woke up last night around 10 calling for me, when I went in to see what was wrong she wanted to get ready for school. LOL It was so funny. "Mommy light! School time! Backpack!" Crack me up! Noooo baby, time for sleep - mommy will wake you up in the morning when it's time for school. *deep sigh* Okay mommy. I laid her back down and she rolled over and squeezed her eyes tightly shut. She was determined to fall asleep right away so she could go to school soon!

Man I love my girl.

Anyways... my baby is now going to be 3 in 11 months 2 1/2 weeks. :P I'm really loving this age so I'm not sad about it... I'm looking foward to being able to communicate even better with her over the coming months/years. :)

So that's all for now... fun times, new tickers and big kids. That's my life!

Listening and Shots

Remember the song I quoted the other day?
Well here's a link: http://www.myspace.com/alabama1111
There you go. Tear Jerker.


So today was Lizzy's two year old well check! She weighs 29 lbs and is 37 1/2 inches tall!!! She's off the charts for height and 75th percentile for weight. Her head is only in the 50th percentile... is that good? I guess that means she has an average size head - idk, I'm so used to her being of the charts, 50% sounds so... average. :P She impressed the doctor with her vocabulary: Stop! Quit it! Please don't! (All while the doc was checking her ears.) haha. She's such a nut. Her doctor said she's in perfect health. After the doc came in she had 4 shots and a finger prick (iron test). Poor baby. She was fine during the iron test, didn't bat an eye... she was too busy asking for more bandaids as the nurse put one on her other hand to distract her, well of course she wanted one on both hands silly! So after the prick she was all smiles b/c she had a neon bandaid for both hands. Weee! Oh but wait, now we had 4 shots to get through. In the past they've let me hold her in my lap facing me so that I was able to hug her tight while she was getting her shots - well not anymore. They had to give them in the tops of her thighs this time instead of sides... so she had to face the nurse while I held her arms down and her legs between mine. Can you say heartbreaking? I sobbed right along with her. Although after the shots she got her 4 neon bandaids on her legs and that cheered her up a bit. AND as soon as the nurse left - she wanted to go sit on the doctors swivel seat... all tears were gone. She paraded out of the office with a big grin on her face, cheeks shining with tears, perfectly happy with so many fun colored bandaids to play with. *sigh* This will always be harder on me than it is her I think. LOL I was still sniffling from having to hold her still.. and she'd already forgotten all about it. Oh to be 2 again...

She came home, ate lunch, played quietly in her playroom for a bit and then knocked out for 3 1/2 hours. Woke up feeling yucky, so we loaded her up with more Tylenol. That definately helped. She's been a bit whiney all day but nothing too bad. All in all I figured today would be much more tramatic than it was. Although the doctor wants us to come back for a flu shot next month. Psht. Fat chance. I don't do flu shots. I've never had it, DH's never had it, and knock on wood - Liz won't ever have it. So I'd rather take my chances than submit my family to a round of expensive shots *just in case*

Is that bad? LOL Oh well. That's my take on it. I know plenty of people who don't even immunize their children at all, so I figure I'm allowed to slip up on the flu shot thingy.

Anyway. Eggs, grits and toast for dinner. Nice mellow meal. Jay got up at 5 this morning for work and just got home at 7:30 - looooong day for him. He said a hot breakfast dinner sounded good to him. Works for me, it's easy and cheap. :D

That's all for now... every time I listen to this song I start bawling again, *sigh* I can't WAIT for these hormones to pass.


Oooh Oooh! I forgot! We booked our ultrasound for the morning of our 4th anniversary! YAY! We'll hopefully be finding out the gender at 9am on September 20th! YAYNESS! *super excited* about that!

Well it's time to put my princess to bed... she's standing here, hair all in her eyes with her cinderella dress on (did I mention she's addicted to this dress now? It *has* to be put on every time we're home.) so I'm off now. Good Night!