I was bumming around this morning, having a hard time doing much of anything and finally decided that a quick shower would jump start me. The 4 year old was playing video games and I put the 1 year old in the playpen. I told my son to come tell me if she cried "super a lot of crying" and he said OK ( Read more... )

it's become somewhat of a thing in our little circle of friends and family as to who has and has not pottied alli. the first person to do it was her uncle aaron, and he was pretty proud. (he was not the first one to attempt, mind you, just the first to suceed) well, when our friend chelsea heard about this, she was not to be outdone. so she made it ( Read more... )

When I first got the idea to try EC, I thought we'd just give it a chance. I didn't have high hopes. Just maybe we'd catch a pee or two occasionally and save money on washing diapers. Little did I know Alli would lead the way and jump head-first into insisting she use the potty whenever possible. She even asks to go at night sometimes ( Read more... )

Sorry for the poor quality, this was filmed on my phone ... it's still cute though. I spent most of the time trying to make sure that you couldn't see that she's diaper-free in the video. The hilarious thing is, that teeny tiny little fuss at the end was her way of nicely saying, "Mama, you'd better put that camera down pronto and get me on my ( Read more... )

Ben just ran over to the potty while watching Micky Mouse Clubhouse, lifted the lid, sat down and said "Ben go pee-pee on the potty."

And he did. Great dude. We'd all be having a real party here if you weren't fully clothed and really peeing in your diaper.

:facepalm:

yes, i'm a post whore today. such is life

When my mom bought her house 20 years ago, it wasn’t hooked up to the sewer lines yet. I was totally grossed out to learn that it had a very old Septic tank that liked to back up occasionally. It wasn’t too long before we got on the sewer lines like the rest of the civilized world, but if we hadn’t, at least there are better solutions to septic ( Read more... )

Mama wow! I’m a big kid nowAfter reading an awesome book called “Early Start Potty Training” we started putting Benjamin on his potty last winter when he was about 14 months old. No pressure, just to get him used to the idea of sitting on it and hearing a story ( Read more... )