We have been waiting for Alexa to take interest in potty training, but gave up at 2 1/2 and did it on our own. We did gangbuster potty training where the first day we had her try every 20 minutes, and it gradually got longer until it clicked after a few days--hurrah! After that first week, she's only had 2 accidents in the last month and a half. The first few days were rough, though. I came home from work the first two days and Alexa was in a diaper because Kyle was about to lose his mind. Some excerpts via text:
12:27pm "Alexa just pooped on the chair." He said that she was sitting while eating lunch and suddenly pooped onto her foot and she immediately looked up in shock and started crying.
12:45pm "I put her on the toilet for a couple min then took her off and she peed on the floor."
Her favorite potty rewards were painting her toenails (I started painting one each time she would go in the toilet and she got to choose the sparkly color) and eating candy. She had more candy in that one week than her whole life combined. We would get really excited when she went in the potty, and there was one time after about a week where she was sitting there and farted into the toilet. She immediately started clapping for herself and said, "Mommy! I tooted in the potty so that I can have candy! I tooted in the potty!!" This is the week her chocolate addiction began and she told me that her new favorite color is brown because it's the color of chocolate. Haha. Oh, and she now checks to see if any of her animals or Barbies have underwear under their clothes.
Alexa currently loves closing all doors wherever she goes, constantly closing us out of whatever room we're in or she's passing by. She also loves bossing people around, and no one is too big for her to tell them what to do. Usually Roxy is her biggest victim, but we had a funny moment at church where she was trying to leave our pew. She said, "I'm going to go touch the piano. I'll be right back. Shh. Be quiet mommy, it's fine. I'll be right back." I never even interrupted her, this was said to me all at once, to which I replied that no, she couldn't go up and touch the piano in the middle of the service. The people sitting behind us were laughing very hard at this 2 year-old telling me "shh, it's fine."
I came into the kitchen to find Alexa feeding Roxy her spaghetti Lady and the Tramp style. I had to capture it before telling her to stop :)
Tyler gave me a heart attack and spontaneously learned how to climb stairs in about 30 seconds. No practice or bribery whatsoever, just thought it would be fun. When I saw him on the top stair I had to stop myself from verbally freaking out because I didn't want to startle him into falling down the stairs he so quickly climbed.
I like to flip through my texts to Kyle and miscellaneous Facebook posts to remember good moments during the month. Here are two FB gems I thought I would put on the blog.
I'm so sad that I was at work during lunch today. Kyle said that he left both kids happily eating to go to the bathroom and came back to Alexa sobbing because Tyler was resting his head ON her plate of food while chewing on a piece of mail.
Two fun stories this morning:
1) Tyler was sitting next to me on the floor whining. Roxy (our dog) walked up to him and sneezed on his face. He stopped crying and didn't start again.
2) I was doing an ab workout with my legs in the air, so Alexa walked up and started doing "this little piggy..." On all of my toes.
12:27pm "Alexa just pooped on the chair." He said that she was sitting while eating lunch and suddenly pooped onto her foot and she immediately looked up in shock and started crying.
12:45pm "I put her on the toilet for a couple min then took her off and she peed on the floor."
Her favorite potty rewards were painting her toenails (I started painting one each time she would go in the toilet and she got to choose the sparkly color) and eating candy. She had more candy in that one week than her whole life combined. We would get really excited when she went in the potty, and there was one time after about a week where she was sitting there and farted into the toilet. She immediately started clapping for herself and said, "Mommy! I tooted in the potty so that I can have candy! I tooted in the potty!!" This is the week her chocolate addiction began and she told me that her new favorite color is brown because it's the color of chocolate. Haha. Oh, and she now checks to see if any of her animals or Barbies have underwear under their clothes.
Alexa currently loves closing all doors wherever she goes, constantly closing us out of whatever room we're in or she's passing by. She also loves bossing people around, and no one is too big for her to tell them what to do. Usually Roxy is her biggest victim, but we had a funny moment at church where she was trying to leave our pew. She said, "I'm going to go touch the piano. I'll be right back. Shh. Be quiet mommy, it's fine. I'll be right back." I never even interrupted her, this was said to me all at once, to which I replied that no, she couldn't go up and touch the piano in the middle of the service. The people sitting behind us were laughing very hard at this 2 year-old telling me "shh, it's fine."
Tyler gave me a heart attack and spontaneously learned how to climb stairs in about 30 seconds. No practice or bribery whatsoever, just thought it would be fun. When I saw him on the top stair I had to stop myself from verbally freaking out because I didn't want to startle him into falling down the stairs he so quickly climbed.
I like to flip through my texts to Kyle and miscellaneous Facebook posts to remember good moments during the month. Here are two FB gems I thought I would put on the blog.
I'm so sad that I was at work during lunch today. Kyle said that he left both kids happily eating to go to the bathroom and came back to Alexa sobbing because Tyler was resting his head ON her plate of food while chewing on a piece of mail.
Two fun stories this morning:
1) Tyler was sitting next to me on the floor whining. Roxy (our dog) walked up to him and sneezed on his face. He stopped crying and didn't start again.
2) I was doing an ab workout with my legs in the air, so Alexa walked up and started doing "this little piggy..." On all of my toes.
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| One of their favorite places to play and wrestle is under the kitchen table |
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| He decided that we put his bib on the wrong way, so while I went to the bathroom he fixed it. |
We were shocked that we won a contest from our Realtor to get two tickets to an AMAZING Michael Buble concert in Salt Lake. A friend watched the kids and we had a great time.
We had a great double Thanksgiving at Peggy and Paul's for lunch and Grandma Sweeny's for dinner. Roxy even got to tag along to both places.
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