What can I say? I guess we need to work on manners and hair-dos.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Potty Training Update!
I picked up Lucy yesterday from daycare and she was in the same clothes as when I dropped her off! Dry all day! Woohoo!!!
I had a Dale Carnegie class in the evening, so right after dinner I left the house.
At the first break, I checked my phone to find this text message from Matt: "Giant poop! Most in the potty!"
I called right away but no answer.
Here is the story that I found out later:
Matt set up the computer to Lucy could talk to her Grandma (Matt's mom) on Skype. Lucy served tea and had a good time with Grandma.
Then Matt got a phone call from Discover card. As he was talking, Lucy yelled "Potty!" and ran to the bathroom.
The next thing Matt heard was "Daddy! I pooped!"
Matt ran to the bathroom to find (in his own words) "a MAN poop" in the little potty and a turd on the floor!
Not bad for no supervision!
Hopefully she is dry and clean when I pick her up today. Go Lucy!!!
I had a Dale Carnegie class in the evening, so right after dinner I left the house.
At the first break, I checked my phone to find this text message from Matt: "Giant poop! Most in the potty!"
I called right away but no answer.
Here is the story that I found out later:
Matt set up the computer to Lucy could talk to her Grandma (Matt's mom) on Skype. Lucy served tea and had a good time with Grandma.
Then Matt got a phone call from Discover card. As he was talking, Lucy yelled "Potty!" and ran to the bathroom.
The next thing Matt heard was "Daddy! I pooped!"
Matt ran to the bathroom to find (in his own words) "a MAN poop" in the little potty and a turd on the floor!
Not bad for no supervision!
Hopefully she is dry and clean when I pick her up today. Go Lucy!!!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Potty Training
It's official! Lucy is learning to use the potty!
We started Saturday. I bought the book Potty Wise by Gary Ezzo & Robert Bucknam, but didn't end up using it. At the same time, I bought the book Making the "Terrible" Twos Terrific by John Rosemond which had a chapter in it about potty training.
The idea in Potty Wise is that you put the kid on the potty over and over giving them tons of treats. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a whole lot of work to me.
In the Twos book, Rosemond says to look for signs of readiness, show them the potty, and put undies on them. They will figure it out on their own. The less intervention the better because learning the potty is about independence.
Well, Saturday was a cooking day for me, so I put her in undies. She had 3 accidents in the morning and went on the potty 6 times in the afternoon/evening.
Sunday was a little crazy with church & going to my parents' house for lunch.
Monday she went to day care in panties and returned in a diaper. I was SO bummed by this!
Tuesday she peed on my mom's lap. Not a good move!
Today, she had one accident! She got up and went in the potty, went on the potty once at daycare and then once at home. I think she is scared of the potty at daycare or something. Oh well! We will see how it goes tomorrow!
Every time today while she was home, she told us she had to go potty and I just watched as she did it all. I think we are going down the right path! :)
We started Saturday. I bought the book Potty Wise by Gary Ezzo & Robert Bucknam, but didn't end up using it. At the same time, I bought the book Making the "Terrible" Twos Terrific by John Rosemond which had a chapter in it about potty training.
The idea in Potty Wise is that you put the kid on the potty over and over giving them tons of treats. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a whole lot of work to me.
In the Twos book, Rosemond says to look for signs of readiness, show them the potty, and put undies on them. They will figure it out on their own. The less intervention the better because learning the potty is about independence.
Well, Saturday was a cooking day for me, so I put her in undies. She had 3 accidents in the morning and went on the potty 6 times in the afternoon/evening.
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| Aren't these so cute! Lucy has Dora undies and Elmo undies. I love them! |
Monday she went to day care in panties and returned in a diaper. I was SO bummed by this!
Tuesday she peed on my mom's lap. Not a good move!
Today, she had one accident! She got up and went in the potty, went on the potty once at daycare and then once at home. I think she is scared of the potty at daycare or something. Oh well! We will see how it goes tomorrow!
Every time today while she was home, she told us she had to go potty and I just watched as she did it all. I think we are going down the right path! :)
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Life in Crazy Town!
As many of you know, we are a little crazy around here. Matt has always tried to temper my crazy liked my crazy, but now I have a little crazy side kick! Here are some of the fun and silly things we have been up to for the past month.
Fireplace: It's in! The crazy part of this was that we ordered the brick, but the guy who was actually supposed to order it from the supplier was fired before ordering it and no one realized it. It was in a few days before Christmas and we LOVE it!
Christmas morning opening stockings:
This is what Lucy looks like first thing in the morning when she is given a sock full of goodies! Look at her HAIR!!!
Speaking of hair: She got a TON of bows and clips in her stocking. She wanted to wear all o them. She also is on a HUGE chap stick binge right now. She got some in her stocking too!
An Angel! We saw this run by us and started dying of laughter! What could it be? She said "I'm an ANGEL!!!!" Apparently my lace waste, cherry print undies worn on her head made her feel angelic! I guess you just have to picture wings attached???
The potty chair... as a dinner chair? At this point you may be thinking: "what is going on over there???" Well, Lucy wanted to eat a waffle in the living room on a Saturday morning, and since I wanted to eat breakfast there too, she rigged up this little set up. I call it creative! (Now if only she would use the potty chair as a potty chair!)
An Endangered Species: the blue headed butterfly
Aunt Rachel gave Lucy butterfly wings that hung from the ceiling. With a little revamping, we made them wearable. Those are my old blue tights! I cut the legs off to make a harness thing and she decided to use the waist part for a headdress. Gotta love her creativity!
Matt caught the critter in the dog cage too! What a catch!
Bowl Helmet Lucy was told to put a bowl away, and instead got out all of the bowls in the drawer. This one became a hat. She was putting it over her eyes and walking around like she was invisible. I love her smile on this picture! No eyes!
It's genetic: Where does she get this craziness? From her mother!!! These cupcakes were really tasty! Lucy and I had a litter dinner party with a place set for Grandma who is far away. YUMMY!
That is what we have been up to! General silliness and a lot of laughing!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
"Mommy, I have cheese..."
It has been so hard to sit down and blog lately. I think I will try during my lunch break some days which is where I am today, so there won't be any pictures.
Last night, I put Lucy in bed like normal which involves bed time story and prayer with Daddy, then laying in bed for one song with Mommy, and then I leave.
Sometimes Lucy tries to get me to stay, so I normally listen for distress, but ignore all other attempts at going back in her room.
Last night, I kept hearing her say "Mommy, I have cheese." ...over and over.
My initial thought was "What is she saying that would sound like 'I have cheese'? 'I just peed...' 'I have ???'" At this age, we age we are always guessing what she is saying. I decided to just ignore her.
At 12:45pm, I woke to Lucy screaming; she has been having nightmares. I run in to comfort her and about laugh out loud!
There is REAL CHEESE in her bed! She WAS saying "Mommy, I have cheese"!!!!!
It was one of those little cheese discs that are individual serving size. I had gotten one out for Lucy for dinner but then didn't give it to her and slipped it in my pocket. Since I forgot about it, it must have fallen out of my pocket while we were singing. Oops!
Last night, I put Lucy in bed like normal which involves bed time story and prayer with Daddy, then laying in bed for one song with Mommy, and then I leave.
Sometimes Lucy tries to get me to stay, so I normally listen for distress, but ignore all other attempts at going back in her room.
Last night, I kept hearing her say "Mommy, I have cheese." ...over and over.
My initial thought was "What is she saying that would sound like 'I have cheese'? 'I just peed...' 'I have ???'" At this age, we age we are always guessing what she is saying. I decided to just ignore her.
At 12:45pm, I woke to Lucy screaming; she has been having nightmares. I run in to comfort her and about laugh out loud!
There is REAL CHEESE in her bed! She WAS saying "Mommy, I have cheese"!!!!!
It was one of those little cheese discs that are individual serving size. I had gotten one out for Lucy for dinner but then didn't give it to her and slipped it in my pocket. Since I forgot about it, it must have fallen out of my pocket while we were singing. Oops!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Making Cookies
We did this so long ago, but I thought I would still post it. (I can not get on top of normal day to day things at home right now, so once I do, I'll post more often.)
A few weeks before Christmas, Lucy and I made sugar cookies: my favorite! Lucy helped with every step, and she was amazingly helpful!
Lucy helped make the cookie dough first, but Matt wasn't around for taking photos. Here is the sugar cookie recipe:
1 cup butter
1.5 cups powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2.5 cups lour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add egg & vanilla
Add all dry ingredients
Chill
Roll dough & cut out shapes
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 400 degrees for 6 minutes
While we waited for the cookie dough to chill. We made the frosting. Here is the recipe and the results:
1/4 cup softened butter
1 lb (3 & 3/4 cups) powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
(good on cookies, cake, cup cakes, graham crackers, fingers, spatulas...)
At first Lucy was really nervous about licking the frosting off the mixer paddle. But then she realized what it was!
The spatula was good too! (Don't worry! I licked out the mixing bowl, and the other spatulas from when we mixed in the colors. Lucy does come by the sweet tooth honestly!)
Then we moved on to cutting out the cookies. We had quite a few misshapen and blobby ones this year.
Lucy wanted to roll the dough too, which she did surprisingly well! She was in general over zealous with the cookie cutter and cut chunks off other cookies and over zealous with getting them off the counter and onto the cookie sheet. There were a few times when she tried to pry them up with her fingers.
Once they were done baking, we moved right on to frosting. Lucy "frosted" one cookie before realizing this was the yummy frosting which led to her just eating the frosting.
I called down to Matt to come and take some more pictures and told him someone was eating all the frosting. When he came up he said "Who is eating all the frosting?"
Lucy next decided that she should do the sprinkles. Almost all of them went into her little bowl.
Here is a picture of how they looked. Lucy's were the 4 with minimal frosting. Guess who ate those: Mommy! Lucy wanted "the pink ones!"
So YUMMY!!! Maybe I will make stars for New Years or something like that... hmm...
Making cookies like this is one of my favorite things to do at Christmas, so it was a lot of fun to share it with my little girl!
A few weeks before Christmas, Lucy and I made sugar cookies: my favorite! Lucy helped with every step, and she was amazingly helpful!
Lucy helped make the cookie dough first, but Matt wasn't around for taking photos. Here is the sugar cookie recipe:
1 cup butter
1.5 cups powdered sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2.5 cups lour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add egg & vanilla
Add all dry ingredients
Chill
Roll dough & cut out shapes
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 400 degrees for 6 minutes
While we waited for the cookie dough to chill. We made the frosting. Here is the recipe and the results:
1/4 cup softened butter
1 lb (3 & 3/4 cups) powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
(good on cookies, cake, cup cakes, graham crackers, fingers, spatulas...)
At first Lucy was really nervous about licking the frosting off the mixer paddle. But then she realized what it was!
The spatula was good too! (Don't worry! I licked out the mixing bowl, and the other spatulas from when we mixed in the colors. Lucy does come by the sweet tooth honestly!)
Then we moved on to cutting out the cookies. We had quite a few misshapen and blobby ones this year.
Lucy wanted to roll the dough too, which she did surprisingly well! She was in general over zealous with the cookie cutter and cut chunks off other cookies and over zealous with getting them off the counter and onto the cookie sheet. There were a few times when she tried to pry them up with her fingers.
Once they were done baking, we moved right on to frosting. Lucy "frosted" one cookie before realizing this was the yummy frosting which led to her just eating the frosting.
I called down to Matt to come and take some more pictures and told him someone was eating all the frosting. When he came up he said "Who is eating all the frosting?"
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| "ME!" |
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| Notice: Pacifier is on the counter and not in the mouth! |
So YUMMY!!! Maybe I will make stars for New Years or something like that... hmm...
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| Someone LOVES frosting! |
Sunday, December 19, 2010
We are still here!
Wow! It has been over a month since I've posted. I'm sorry about that. Life over here has been super busy: house remodel, Christmas decorating, shopping, & baking, having a 2 year old, work, classes/studying.
Our big change is the remodel! Here are some pictures of our house & Lucy's 2nd birthday party which was the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Our big change is the remodel! Here are some pictures of our house & Lucy's 2nd birthday party which was the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
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| Looking into the kitchen from the living room. |
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| Our "wine area" in the dining room. |
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| Our new entertainment center area in the living room. We still don't have the stone on the fireplace. Apparently the guy who was supposed to order it got fired before ordering it and no one realized it. |
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| This was the spread for Lucy's party. We had a butterfly theme. |
Lucy had a lot of fun at the party. Here she is wearing her new princess dress from Aunt Jenna and I have no idea what is in her hands. When she opened up clothes from Grandma Ehinger, she threw the package as soon as she knew it was only clothes. Then when all the gifts were open she came over to me and with her hand by her mouth like she was telling a secret said "More presents?" Everyone heard and laughed so hard!
We love our remodeled kitchen and
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