Potty Training Adventures: Day Three

Not much to say today, other than HE'S POTTY TRAINED!!!! No accidents since yesterday morning, woke up dry this morning, dry at naptime, PERFECT!

I HIGHLY recommend this program to anyone that's wanting to potty train their child. It's intense, but soooo worth it.

You can find out more information at

http://www.3daypottytraining.com/

I didn't really get too many pictures of our adventure - I was a little preoccupied!

Here we are hanging out on the tarp, trying to stay busy:

Morning of Day Two, showing off his stickers:

Cuddle time with Eli on the afternoon of Day Two, when I finally decided he was trained enough to get off the tarp and go back to normalcy.

Potty Training Adventures: Day Two

Wow...what an awesome day!
Recap last night - we changed wet sheets at 10pm and 3am, but he woke up dry at 7am.
The next couple of hours were much like yesterday - he starts peeing, we take him to the bathroom to finish. Around 10am was his last accident. From then on he started telling us when he needed to go and holding it until we made it to the toilet. WOWWWW!!!! He woke up from naptime dry again. This afternoon he said, 'Momma, I need poop.' We got to the bathroom and he POOPED ON THE POTTY!!!!! We were soooo excited. We had to go get Daddy and show him. Gross, I know.
Since he's done such a good job we removed the tarp and are letting him play as normal around the house.
So, I know I can't say he's 100% potty trained, but we are definitely getting there! I'm interested to see how tonight goes.
I'm so proud of our little man!

Potty Training Adventures: Day One

I've decided to journal our adventures with potty training so I'll never forget all the fun we're having! :) (This will probably totally bore 99% of you)

I decided to go with the 3 Day Potty Training program. I didn't want it to drag on forever and I had heard great things about it, so why not? Basics of the program that are different from others: have the child throw away ALL diapers, put them in underwear and a T-shirt, stay by their side ALL day long, tell them constantly thoughout the day 'Tell Mommy when you need to go potty,' and 'Remember to keep your underwear dry.' If they start peeing, you immediately take them into the bathroom so they can finish on the potty, LOTS of praise, do NOT have them just sit on the potty and TRY, do NOT have them sit on the potty and read books. The theory is that they need to associate the feeling of needing to potty with actually going, not just someone telling them every 10 minutes to go.

So, overall we had a good day. We set out a tarp on the living room floor with a trail of towels to the bathroom. We pretty much just played on the tarp as much as possible (hard to keep him on it, but not too bad). For the most part he would pee just a little bit in his underwear, I'd rush him to the bathroom, and he would finish going on his cool little Elmo potty. I gave him a sticker any time he peed in the toilet - he wound up with 17 in all! That's a lot of peeing. Most of the morning I was the one to catch him and take him to the bathroom, by the afternoon he was acknowledging that he had peed and twice even told me before he went. So definite progress. Oh, and he woke up from nap time completely dry! Unfortunately, he peed right after getting up on our way to the bathroom. I was fully expecting to change sheets after naptime, but was pleasantly surprised.

Bedtime, however, I've already had to change the sheets. We stopped doing liquids at 5pm, and he went to bed at 8. He woke up around 10pm with wet underwear/sheets. But we're dedicated to sticking with nighttime WITHOUT using Pullups, or any other nighttime diaper. They don't recommend doing that if you really want them potty trained in 3 days.

So, that's day one. We survived and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We made progress and I'm hoping for more breakthoughs tomorrow!

Eli at 3 Months

Weight: 14.4 pounds (75th percentile)
Height: 25 inches (85th percentile)

Eli is such a happy baby. He loves to smile, squeal, and make funny noises. He is very, very content. When he's awake, he usually just looks around and watches what's going on. When he's fussy, he's usually fine if you hold him in one arm, facing out, kind of dangling. Eli LOVES bath time; I can't wait for him to get a little bigger and he can take a bath with Ethan. He really likes to sit under his butterfly play center and look at the toys hanging down.

He eats 5 ounces every 3 1/2 hours. He technically sleeps through the night, but I'm ready for him to start sleeping a little longer. He wakes up at about 5am to eat, then goes back to sleep until 7. (I always work out at 5am, so that's a little frustrating sometimes. There have been times when he waits until 7, which I love!) He still wears size 1 diapers, but only because we're trying to get rid of the last of those- he really should be in size two. His 0-3 month clothes are starting to get a little short for him and he fits well into 3-6 month clothes.

He's rolled over from his tummy to his back twice (at 9 weeks), but hasn't done it since then.

He knows his ABC's and shapes....just kidding. I guess that's about it for Eli!

Father's Day

I have been looking forward to this day for about 10 months now. It's finally here!!!! I have been plotting and scheming to pull off the BEST Father's Day gift ever for my man. It has been soooo hard to keep it a secret.
Are you dying to know yet????

Sooooo... Rachel and I did a combo gift this year. If you know our husbands well, you know Lonnie is a HUGE Ohio State fan and Curt is a HUGE Michigan fan. And of course when they play each other each year, it is a big to-do and lots of fun for them to tease and pick on each other as guys do. Every year they say how cool it would be for them to actually go to a game together, but they knew it would probably never happen. WRONG!!!! We got them tickets to the game!!!! Woohoo! It worked out perfectly - they're playing each other the Saturday after Thanksgiving in Columbus, which is not far from my Grandparents house. So we can spend the holiday with the family up there then the boys can drive up to the game on Saturday.
I love it!!!

Here's the only picture I got as they were opening their gift - it's all blurry, but my camera died after the first picture, so I have nothing else to show. Boo. Check out Rachel's blog - she's got GREAT pictures of it.


The other part of Lonnie's Father's Day gift was that we went to a Naturals game with the Benders and Thibodeaux. Despite the warm (HOT) temperatures, it was actually a ton of fun. Peyton and Ethan had a BLAST, and the whole row in front of us was empty so we could spread out. Every Sunday is Kids Day, too, so we got vouchers for a free hotdog, chips, and a drink for each child. Can't beat that! Luckily I charged the camera at naptime so I at least got some pictures at the game.

CAMP'N

Note to self: NEVER GO CAMPING IN JUNE IN ARKANSAS AGAIN. But we had fun regardless. We just sat around the fans instead of the campfire.

Birthday Party

Lonnie's mom got me this book for Christmas last year, so I thought for her birthday we'd make a creation from the book. It definitely didn't look like the picture in the book, but we did our best!

The candles were made by wrapping a fruit roll up around a pretzel stick, then putting a banana Runt on the top for the flame, and piping yellow/orange around the flame. Not horrible for our first attempt.

Happy birthday, Shirley!