Potty Update

I know no one cares as much as a parent about potty training, but I'm going to give you all an update anyway (and the fact that all this can be printed for later recall is a good reason, too). I would like to report that Xadun's potty training has been a success. I haven't had to clean poopy underwear in a while. I guess when we let it be his decision, he made the right one. He still wears pull-ups when he sleeps, but I don't think he'll have to for very long. He generally wakes up dry, even though he drinks water all night long. The other night he came in and told me he needed to change his pull up because he peed in it. I think that's a good sign - at least he knows when he's gone in the middle of the night and hopefully soon he'll wake up before it gets to that point. It was a longer process than Chaetun's, but it still wasn't too bad.

Family Fun

Birthdays

This month we celebrated Chaetun & Xadun's birthdays. Chaetun turned 5 and Xadun turned 3. Because their birthdays are only 5 days apart, at this point in their lives we just celebrate them together. They both got presents ON their birthday and then the Saturday in between the two days we went bowling and had ice cream cake.

As you can see, the boys didn't do too bad for their first time bowling (of course there were bumpers). You can also see that I, the one who had a bowling class in college, sucked! :) My excuse is that I have to warm up. Since we only played one game, I didn't get adequate time to get that warm up. I probably would have done better by the third game. You can see in the present pictures, they loved the game so much, Xadun got his own bowling for the house.

(I've been wanting to make this post for quite some time now, but I needed to make collages and didn't know how. I figured it out today, as you can see.)

New Layout

As you can see, I have finally moved on with my layout and have figured how to make it cute. I finally found a site (Thanks, Janna!) and took the time to read the directions to figure out how to do it. I wanted it to be along the same lines as our zoo (in case you hadn't figured that out) and I was able to find some really cute paper. Of course, as I went along I also had to use Photo Shop which I had no idea how to do either. I found some great directions that gave me a start and I was able to start figuring some stuff out. It's kind of fun once you know what you're doing!! That could be bad, though, because now the whole digital scrapbooking thing looks a lot more fun :S

UPDATE - Potty Training

Xadun had a really good day today. The potty training has been off and on since my last post due to me going to work, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, and I wasn't about to worry about it during church. So, today was the first all day since last Thursday. As I said, Xadun had a really good day and at one point, he even noticed that he needed to go and said he'd better go potty so he doesn't go in his underwear. I was very happy to hear that. As the day went on, I was thinking about being able to blog about such a great feat, but of course, it was too early. Close to bed time my mom brought Xadun up and I knew there must have been an accident, but it wasn't just pee, he pooped in his underwear. I didn't get upset and just talked to him about going in the toilet. He was really sad and kept telling me he was sorry he went poop in his underwear. He really was. And as we talked, he kept saying that next time he'll go in the toilet. I'm hoping that his slightly abnormal digestive system won't cause too many of these no time to run to the toilet type accidents. My mom said they were just playing downstairs when all of the sudden he stopped, and it had happened. I'm still calling it a good day, though. We're definitely making progress!

Oh, the Joy of Potty Training

We've been trying to get Xadun to go potty in the toilet for awhile now. Yesterday Chaetun was trying to convince him that he should do it. So, I told Xadun that we could go pick out some underwear if he would go potty in the toilet. He was very excited about the idea and seemed to understand, so today we went and got underwear. Thomas the Train and Football to be exact. We also got Cars that were too big so we gave those to Chaetun. More on that later.

The underwear didn't go on until after naps, around 5. In the next 4 hours of his awake time, I cleaned up two puddles on the floor (thank goodness for hardwood floors) and put three pair of wet underwear in the dirty clothes. I stayed on top of him asking if he needed to go potty, but he never answered yes, and always peed on the floor :s I'm not sure if he just doesn't understand the feeling yet, or he just doesn't pay attention to it. We'll try again tomorrow since we'll be home all day. I only have 6 pair of underwear, so we might be done halfway through the day.

The other part of this story is Chaetun. He was excited for Xadun to get underwear and understood that he wasn't getting any. When we got home and I found that the Cars were too big for Xadun, I told Chaetun he could have them. Of course it wasn't enough just to have them, he had to wear them. I told him he could not change his underwear just to wear cars. He would have to wait until tomorrow. So, he proceeds to pee in them a little so that they're wet and he can take them off. I told him he would have to live with wet underwear because he knows better. He then peed a little more so as to make his pants wet wanting to change everything. Again, being the mean mom that I am, I told him he had to keep the wet underwear and pants and he would not be allowed to change. I know, I'm mean, but I'm not going to let him change his underwear just because he got new ones. :P

Easter Fun

We had a good Easter this year. It wasn't too eventful, but still fun for the kids. Saturday morning we went to an Easter Egg Hunt. It was one of those in a bigger city where everyone goes at once, no splitting up the age groups. So...it was over in about 2 minutes. I was kind of annoyed I had to drive an hour just for 2 minutes, but Chaetun thought it was great egg hunt, so I guess it was worth it. Chaetun had the hang of it and was able to get quite a few eggs. Xadun didn't really get it and of course Brekan wasn't fast enough with the hundreds of other children racing to get the eggs, so they each only got a couple of eggs.

After the hunt we came home for a little bit and then went to Ellen & Boyd's for a barbecue. After lunch, Ellen had to make a pie for someone in her ward and the boys wanted to help. Chaetun loves to lick the mixers afterwards

The boys looked really cute in their Easter outfits. We couldn't get any "good" pictures, so here's the best we got.

One of Xadun's many faces

The Fam

Chris' parents did another egg hunt for the boys after we got home from church. Chris videoed it, but I can't find my computer connector to get it off the camera :S