This will probably conclude our potty training tales for now. Lexi seems to have been potty trained in less than a week. She’s had no accidents. She woke me up again this morning to go and only woke me up because she couldn’t pull down her pull up like she does her panties. She has gone by herself several times. She went while we were out shopping at almost every store. In fact in two stores, she asked to go twice. She’s done fine at school, overnight, at family’s houses, in stores, at home. I’m not sure we have any other hurdles to cross anymore except for #2. So until she does all that and we all do the potty dance for her, I won’t mention potty training again. For all of you that still need to do it…You can do it!! If we can do it, anybody can!!
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That was painful
No, I don’t have a potty training horror story to tell you. Simply, my Internet was hosed almost all day yesterday. Up and down it went until we finally left the house around 4 when I gave up working and I didn’t get back on my computer until 11pm. *gasp*. That must be a record.
But today it seems all better and I’m able to get to all my favorite sites and oh, um, work too.
So let’s talk about my evening out. It was a frugal night if you ask me.
- We went to Blockbuster and turned in a DVD mailer and used our monthly coupon so each of the girls could pick out a movie. No cost.
- Then we went across the parking lot and went through the drive thru and got 4 Jr Frosty’s with some coupons. No cost.
- Then we headed up to Old Navy so I could pounce on their winter coat sale right now. I picked out this coat that was normally $68, and 40% off and then I had a $10 coupon. Scott threw in a $10 thermal shirt at the last second but I still got both for $40.
- I then stopped in at CVS to do a second deal this week. I realized my coupons for Garnier would work and I could make some extra ECBs. The deal didn’t quite go as planned but it turned out ok in the end. The end result of this trip? I spent $5.01 for $33.41 and got back $15 in ECBs. I should have gotten a better deal than that but I’ll post more on that in a separate post.
- We headed to dinner where it wasn’t that cheap but we did get the kids free drinks. I ordered them sodas but the guy took a look at them and only charged them for waters. Thankyouverymuch,kindsir.
- After that, Heather and I headed off to CVS and Walgreens since she hadn’t done her weekly shopping and I needed to fix my problem from my earlier trip. I ended up with a $8 gift card which then cancelled out the money I spent earlier. Again, more later.
- And then we came home and M and Heather and I watched Grey’s and Run’s House.
To me a very eventful yet low cost night. All in all, we came home with 4 or 5 bags full of stuff worth over $115, 2 rented DVDs and full bellies with a snack and dinner all for under $60.
I guess my title doesn’t really fit what this post ended up being about…I never have been good at those things.
Day 4 Mid-day potty training update
I can’t help but post on how well they’re doing!
When Lexi got up this morning, she was dry and did not want to go potty. She insisted she wanted to use the potty at school. Same for Emma. So I crossed my fingers and flew to the school. I walked them in and notified the teacher that she had been potty trained while she had been out sick this week and she hadn’t been this morning so be on the look-out.
When I went to pick them up I was thinking, if she’s in the extra outfit I sent, then I know it didn’t go well. And sure enough, she came running out in the outfit I put her in this morning. Yay! I happened to walk by her other teacher and she said she went twice at school today. Yay!
We stopped at Taco Bell on the way home and she tried to go there but didn’t. We got home not too long ago and I hear, "Emma, I peed I peed!" I flew to the hallway hoping that didn’t mean she had done it in the floor somewhere. But sure enough, she had done the whole deed by herself in the potty!! Double, triple yay!!
Thankful Thursday
- So incredibly thankful for the potty training success this week. Thanks to my mom who insisted we needed to start–sometimes the Mom speeches do work.
- For the rain last night and this morning.
- For the time off work this week and in the coming weeks.
- For the extra $$ rolling in daily from our favorite paid posting sites.
- For a helpful husband who rolls up his sleeves and does the dishes for me when the sink is overflowing and I just can’t seem to tackle it.
Hurdles jumped with flying colors
Yay! Yesterday MIL said Lexi didn’t go at her house at all…even taking an hour nap…and then went to church in panties and then asked to go as soon as service was over. And she actually did it on the big potty there. Wow. I’m not sure how good it is she went 5 hours without going but I’m glad she went in the potty when she finally did.
Emma also went #2 while over there so yay for that too.
And then last night Lexi woke me up to go. I was clapping and handing out stickers at 3:47 am. Fun stuff.
New goal today…going to school in panties.
Another good day
The day progressed well on the potty training front. Had a couple #2 accidents for Lexi but none were horrific to clean up and she had no #1 accidents. And ALL were her coming to me asking to go. Emma had NO accidents and several successes. Yay!
But more hurdles have to be crossed this afternoon. MIL took them to her house about an hour ago. I sent her off with extra panties, pull-ups, clothes and her stickers and chart as well as a speech about using Maw Maw’s big potty. They also will be going to church this evening and I’m pretty sure MIL is planning on putting a pull-up on her when they go although she did great at the church last night and had panties on. But I guess I can’t ask too much.
Emma especially I’m concerned about because most of her accidents happen over there when she gets to playing with S and no one is really asking her to go. But soon enough we’ll know.
On another note about today, we’re not having our regular Wednesday youth service. We had a youth member’s best friend pass away last week after being hit by a car. The boy actually visited a time or two to youth group functions. They’re holding a candlelight service tonight at the school so we’re taking a group over there instead. Which kind of worked out good in the sense we didn’t have a speaker lined up tonight so this helps us out.
I wish I had more interesting things to tell you about. The whole potty training thing has consumed my week and I’m really not any more interesting than that right now!
Works for me Wednesday: Picasa
I’ve been a lover of Google products for quite some time. Probably going on 10 years now. Today I want to tell you about a few features on Picasa that I absolutely love that makes blogging easier for me.
Sometimes for posts like the recent birthday party post, I need a small set of all the pictures I took. The easiest way for me to do this instead of rambling through the pictures in explorer one by one, I use Picasa’s Hold and Export features.
When I come across a picture I want to include, I hold it in the tray on the bottom left. Once I have all the desired pictures, I then use the Export feature. When I export them, I can choose what size to export them and what folder to export them to. That way, all the pictures I want to blog on for a particular post are now downsized to the desired size and are in one place. When I’m done with the post and have uploaded the pictures, I simply delete the temporary folder.
I’m sure there are easier ways, but this works for me!
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Another milestone
Both Emma and Lexi stayed completely dry last night. And normally Lexi is FULL in the morning and sometimes Emma too.
–post writing interrupted for potty break by BOTH of them. "I gotta pee, I gotta pee!"–
And today no accidents by either of them and 3 more stickers for Lexi.
Yay!!