Just a little video for you today!
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Possessed Potty
Seriously, this potty is possessed or we have a ghost who is also potty training! The music will go off randomly all the time, even in the middle of the night. It is actually really funny when either Wally or I are actually going to the bathroom (on the big toilet of course!) and the little potty will go off. We all cheer for whoever is in there - ha!
Life As We Know It...
...is fun.
...can be unpredictable.
...is just what I hoped it would be like at this point.
...is the new name of this blog :)
It is a little sad to say it, but the blog title "Lovin' Lucas" has officially been retired. I was looking for a fresher look for the blog and a title that would grow with our family. And instead of just naming the blog "Lovin' Lucas and Baby Z", I thought something a little more open-ended would be better. So "Life As We Know It" it is! Life doesn't stop so there are always stories to be told!
I hope you enjoy the new look :)
...can be unpredictable.
...is just what I hoped it would be like at this point.
...is the new name of this blog :)
It is a little sad to say it, but the blog title "Lovin' Lucas" has officially been retired. I was looking for a fresher look for the blog and a title that would grow with our family. And instead of just naming the blog "Lovin' Lucas and Baby Z", I thought something a little more open-ended would be better. So "Life As We Know It" it is! Life doesn't stop so there are always stories to be told!
I hope you enjoy the new look :)
Thursday, January 20, 2011
15 Weeks and 5 Days
Further PT Update: I had to get back on here, Luke redeemed himself tonight from the poop accident! Literally minutes after I posted this, I heard the potty music. I figured he was playing in there, but sure enough, he went all on his own and he was using a kleenex to wipe the toilet seat...LOL!
PT Update: I was going to avoid posting about potty training for a bit, BUT I can't help but be bursting with pride! Luke has been nearly-accident free since Tuesday. He had an accident this morning, but we truly believe it was in spite! Wally wouldn't give him a muffin so he literally peed right in front of him (yes, that is what we are dealing with with this feisty little 2-year old these days). And tonight, he pooped in his underwear. But, let's not focus on that right now because he truly is doing awesome! Luke hasn't had a SINGLE accident at daycare and he has pooped on the potty there and once at home! He really understands that he needs to hold his pee until he gets to the potty. Poop we nearly have, but I know that can take a bit. He has stayed completely dry at naptime all week too. In fact today, they didn't put a diaper on him at naptime and he literally ran to the potty the second he woke up! He has been nearly dry at night too (we got rid of the pull-ups and are just using diapers now). I am so proud of him and those first two days of hell were worth it!
Onto other things!
I am now 15 weeks and 5 days pregnant! It's hard to believe I am that far along already. I honestly feel great. I actually forget from time to time that I am pregnant, thank goodness for the growing mid-section to remind me :)
I had my most recent appointment last Wednesday. This was the first appointment that Wally was able to attend with me so he was pretty excited to hear the heartbeat. It is always so nerve-wracking for me the second my doctor puts the doppler on my belly...and then I hear the heartbeat and all is perfect in the world. There truly isn't a better sound! And this baby's heartbeat was strong and FAST!!!
Everything is going smoothly so far. My next appointment is February 12th and then we will get to schedule our anatomy scan for around 20 weeks, which is the halfway point - crazy! Just in case you didn't know, we won't be finding out the sex again (sorry Mom!). We love the surprise and hearing the words "It's a _____!" We have a gender neutral baby room all ready to go and will be moving Luke to his new big boy bedroom hopefully in the Spring sometime!
Here are some pics of my progressing baby bump :)
15 weeks and 3 days - this isn't the best picture. My eyes look a little miserable. This was taken Tuesday morning when I thought I was well enough to go to work and ended up being miserably sick for the past 3 days. I will try for a better belly shot this weekend!
PT Update: I was going to avoid posting about potty training for a bit, BUT I can't help but be bursting with pride! Luke has been nearly-accident free since Tuesday. He had an accident this morning, but we truly believe it was in spite! Wally wouldn't give him a muffin so he literally peed right in front of him (yes, that is what we are dealing with with this feisty little 2-year old these days). And tonight, he pooped in his underwear. But, let's not focus on that right now because he truly is doing awesome! Luke hasn't had a SINGLE accident at daycare and he has pooped on the potty there and once at home! He really understands that he needs to hold his pee until he gets to the potty. Poop we nearly have, but I know that can take a bit. He has stayed completely dry at naptime all week too. In fact today, they didn't put a diaper on him at naptime and he literally ran to the potty the second he woke up! He has been nearly dry at night too (we got rid of the pull-ups and are just using diapers now). I am so proud of him and those first two days of hell were worth it!
Onto other things!
I am now 15 weeks and 5 days pregnant! It's hard to believe I am that far along already. I honestly feel great. I actually forget from time to time that I am pregnant, thank goodness for the growing mid-section to remind me :)
I had my most recent appointment last Wednesday. This was the first appointment that Wally was able to attend with me so he was pretty excited to hear the heartbeat. It is always so nerve-wracking for me the second my doctor puts the doppler on my belly...and then I hear the heartbeat and all is perfect in the world. There truly isn't a better sound! And this baby's heartbeat was strong and FAST!!!
Everything is going smoothly so far. My next appointment is February 12th and then we will get to schedule our anatomy scan for around 20 weeks, which is the halfway point - crazy! Just in case you didn't know, we won't be finding out the sex again (sorry Mom!). We love the surprise and hearing the words "It's a _____!" We have a gender neutral baby room all ready to go and will be moving Luke to his new big boy bedroom hopefully in the Spring sometime!
Here are some pics of my progressing baby bump :)
15 weeks and 3 days - this isn't the best picture. My eyes look a little miserable. This was taken Tuesday morning when I thought I was well enough to go to work and ended up being miserably sick for the past 3 days. I will try for a better belly shot this weekend!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Tales from the Potty - Day 4
Today went pretty well up until the last few hours.
Luke peed on the potty right away when he woke up in the morning - SUCCESS!
Around 11, he showed Barney how to pee on the potty too - SUCCESS!
Just before 1, he peed again and seemed to attempt to poop (he was pushing, but I think he got scared) - SUCCESS!
At this point I was actually hoping he would just poop in his pull-up sometime during naptime so I could quit worrying about it. Well, he did! He was playing in his crib for a bit rather than napping and then he yelled, "Mommy, I poop!". Hey, at least he told me he did! After I changed him, he wasn't digging naptime so we decided to try our first outing in big boy underwear - the grocery store. NO PROBLEM!
As soon as we got back from the grocery store, he peed on the potty - SUCCESS!
I tried to put him down for his nap then with underwear on thinking we would give it a whirl since he just went and was dry during naptime yesterday; however, Luke really wasn't in the mood for a nap. It was getting late so we decided to just forgo the nap and do an early bedtime.
Unfortunately the next few hours didn't go so well. Luke had 2 accidents. Both of which probably could have been avoided if we would have put him on the potty, but I was trying to let him take the lead and tell us. He does, but not until it's too late. He just says "Elmo all wet" or "Thomas all wet" and then runs to the potty when we tell him. Sigh! So he is pee-trained so long as WE put him on the potty when we think it's necessary.
Luke really hasn't been eating well at all for the past week. Breakfast always goes well so we try to fill him up as much as we can, but lunch and dinner has basically been zippo! I know he is battling a bad cold and most likely a loss of appetite (we are all struggling with this in this household), but he is starting to really stress me out about not eating...he has NOT had a fever at all with this cold and it is a runny nose and cough. He doesn't seem miserable at all, but it is going on a week, and I am thinking a call to the doctor might be necessary - I always struggle with this...so anyways...dinner was a disaster, bathtime was a disaster and it was just meltdown city. Luke went to bed at 6:55 tonight!
We are back to daycare tomorrow so we will see how potty training goes there. They usually follow the method of putting the child on the potty every half-hour to an hour, but at some point the kids have to decide they need to go on their own right?!?! That is what we were trying to do all weekend, but especially at the end of today. My thinking after going through 3 days of this is that you do need to put the child on the potty every so often to get them used to the idea of peeing in the potty at first, build their confidence, and wait for them to understand when they need to go. I will let daycare know how we did it all weekend and our results and we'll see how it goes. I certainly don't want to say "screw it!" and put the diapers back on because he is doing really well and I think he will get it within a couple of weeks, but I will not be potty training my child for months...if he doesn't get it, we will revisit it in the spring sometime.
Thanks for reading my long-winded potty tales...I know they aren't all that interesting and it's mostly me just putting my thoughts in writing! So if you have made it this far, here are a few pics from our weekend (I forgot I did take some pics on Friday).
Yes, that is a sleeping bag over the dining room chair. Look, I knew there would be accidents so I was trying to make clean up as easy as possible. I also had a huge blanket sprawled across the area rug in the living room and a "special blanket" for him to sit on on the couch :)
This was Luke at 'naptime' today. At night lately, he asks to "rock-a-bye baby" so we read books and rock for a little bit before laying him in his bed. He has been wanting to rock for longer and longer and I'm not complaining about the cuddles. However, today, he wanted to "rock-a-bye baby" Barney on his own. I thought for sure he was going to fall asleep in the chair, but it didn't happen!
And some video!
Luke peed on the potty right away when he woke up in the morning - SUCCESS!
Around 11, he showed Barney how to pee on the potty too - SUCCESS!
Just before 1, he peed again and seemed to attempt to poop (he was pushing, but I think he got scared) - SUCCESS!
At this point I was actually hoping he would just poop in his pull-up sometime during naptime so I could quit worrying about it. Well, he did! He was playing in his crib for a bit rather than napping and then he yelled, "Mommy, I poop!". Hey, at least he told me he did! After I changed him, he wasn't digging naptime so we decided to try our first outing in big boy underwear - the grocery store. NO PROBLEM!
As soon as we got back from the grocery store, he peed on the potty - SUCCESS!
I tried to put him down for his nap then with underwear on thinking we would give it a whirl since he just went and was dry during naptime yesterday; however, Luke really wasn't in the mood for a nap. It was getting late so we decided to just forgo the nap and do an early bedtime.
Unfortunately the next few hours didn't go so well. Luke had 2 accidents. Both of which probably could have been avoided if we would have put him on the potty, but I was trying to let him take the lead and tell us. He does, but not until it's too late. He just says "Elmo all wet" or "Thomas all wet" and then runs to the potty when we tell him. Sigh! So he is pee-trained so long as WE put him on the potty when we think it's necessary.
Luke really hasn't been eating well at all for the past week. Breakfast always goes well so we try to fill him up as much as we can, but lunch and dinner has basically been zippo! I know he is battling a bad cold and most likely a loss of appetite (we are all struggling with this in this household), but he is starting to really stress me out about not eating...he has NOT had a fever at all with this cold and it is a runny nose and cough. He doesn't seem miserable at all, but it is going on a week, and I am thinking a call to the doctor might be necessary - I always struggle with this...so anyways...dinner was a disaster, bathtime was a disaster and it was just meltdown city. Luke went to bed at 6:55 tonight!
We are back to daycare tomorrow so we will see how potty training goes there. They usually follow the method of putting the child on the potty every half-hour to an hour, but at some point the kids have to decide they need to go on their own right?!?! That is what we were trying to do all weekend, but especially at the end of today. My thinking after going through 3 days of this is that you do need to put the child on the potty every so often to get them used to the idea of peeing in the potty at first, build their confidence, and wait for them to understand when they need to go. I will let daycare know how we did it all weekend and our results and we'll see how it goes. I certainly don't want to say "screw it!" and put the diapers back on because he is doing really well and I think he will get it within a couple of weeks, but I will not be potty training my child for months...if he doesn't get it, we will revisit it in the spring sometime.
Thanks for reading my long-winded potty tales...I know they aren't all that interesting and it's mostly me just putting my thoughts in writing! So if you have made it this far, here are a few pics from our weekend (I forgot I did take some pics on Friday).
Yes, that is a sleeping bag over the dining room chair. Look, I knew there would be accidents so I was trying to make clean up as easy as possible. I also had a huge blanket sprawled across the area rug in the living room and a "special blanket" for him to sit on on the couch :)
This was Luke at 'naptime' today. At night lately, he asks to "rock-a-bye baby" so we read books and rock for a little bit before laying him in his bed. He has been wanting to rock for longer and longer and I'm not complaining about the cuddles. However, today, he wanted to "rock-a-bye baby" Barney on his own. I thought for sure he was going to fall asleep in the chair, but it didn't happen!
And some video!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Tales from the Potty - Day 3
Dare I say it - Luke was ACCIDENT FREE today! I woke up feeling much better, Wally not so much, Luke still had his runny nose, but he was 5 for 5 today - NO ACCIDENTS!!! But also no pooping :( I worried this would happen. It isn't completely unusual for him to go one weekend day without pooping so we'll see what tomorrow brings.
#1 - Luke woke up just before 7 with a very full pull-up so I knew it would be a bit before he had to go again, but he had breakfast and lots of juice and water. It wasn't until noon that he went for the first time IN THE POTTY! He sat on the potty (without a fight) a few times between 7 and noon, but every time said "no pee pee" so we would just go back to playing. Finally when I put him on the potty at noon, he went! He didn't even pee just a little bit in his underwear! Those nearly 5 hours were torture for me though - I couldn't and still can't help but wonder if he has really good bladder control or is just refusing to go?!?!
#2 - We had success again before naptime just before 2. I put a pull-up (we are calling these his big boy sleeping underwear) on him for his nap.
#3 - He slept for 2 1/2 hours and I whisked him out of bed immediately when I heard him talking and we went straight to the potty - success again and his pull-up was completely dry!
#4 - 5:45 another successful pee!
#5 - 7:45 He put up quite the fight about being "all done" on the potty and not wanting to try to go one more time before bedtime. He eventually gave in and after a few minutes on the potty, he went!
We are so proud of him - this is quite the change from yesterday! Is this how it works? Do they just get that they shouldn't go in their underwear overnight??? I am hoping tomorrow goes just as smoothly, but I am also hoping he gets to the point where he tells us when he has to go or just goes and sits on the potty on his own. Wally and I are both off tomorrow for MLK day so we have one more day at home and then it's off to daycare to see how he does there!
I'll try to take some pics of the cute little guy in his big boy underwear tomorrow. All of my energy has been sucked up by the flu and potty training so I haven't gotten around to getting the camera out!
#1 - Luke woke up just before 7 with a very full pull-up so I knew it would be a bit before he had to go again, but he had breakfast and lots of juice and water. It wasn't until noon that he went for the first time IN THE POTTY! He sat on the potty (without a fight) a few times between 7 and noon, but every time said "no pee pee" so we would just go back to playing. Finally when I put him on the potty at noon, he went! He didn't even pee just a little bit in his underwear! Those nearly 5 hours were torture for me though - I couldn't and still can't help but wonder if he has really good bladder control or is just refusing to go?!?!
#2 - We had success again before naptime just before 2. I put a pull-up (we are calling these his big boy sleeping underwear) on him for his nap.
#3 - He slept for 2 1/2 hours and I whisked him out of bed immediately when I heard him talking and we went straight to the potty - success again and his pull-up was completely dry!
#4 - 5:45 another successful pee!
#5 - 7:45 He put up quite the fight about being "all done" on the potty and not wanting to try to go one more time before bedtime. He eventually gave in and after a few minutes on the potty, he went!
We are so proud of him - this is quite the change from yesterday! Is this how it works? Do they just get that they shouldn't go in their underwear overnight??? I am hoping tomorrow goes just as smoothly, but I am also hoping he gets to the point where he tells us when he has to go or just goes and sits on the potty on his own. Wally and I are both off tomorrow for MLK day so we have one more day at home and then it's off to daycare to see how he does there!
I'll try to take some pics of the cute little guy in his big boy underwear tomorrow. All of my energy has been sucked up by the flu and potty training so I haven't gotten around to getting the camera out!
Tales from the Potty - Day 2
Well, yesterday could have went better - for many reasons! I woke up with a stomach ache which ended up being the flu, Luke didn't actually pee in the potty until almost 3:30 PM (4 accidents before that). He then went again at 4 PM, but had 2 more accidents before bedtime, and then Wally caught the flu bug around 5 PM and was up all through the night. Luke also has a bad cold that he just can't seem to shake! So seriously, yesterday could have gone better!
Luke still isn't telling us (with words) when he has to go, which is the way the 3-day potty training method works. I feel like maybe we made some progress though because he would pee just a little in his underwear and then he would be grabbing himself - obviously his way of saying he had to go so we would go to the potty. It was a success twice, but a few other times, he would sit on the potty for a bit, say "no pee pee", get up and not more than 5 minutes later, he would have an accident.
On to day 3...
Luke still isn't telling us (with words) when he has to go, which is the way the 3-day potty training method works. I feel like maybe we made some progress though because he would pee just a little in his underwear and then he would be grabbing himself - obviously his way of saying he had to go so we would go to the potty. It was a success twice, but a few other times, he would sit on the potty for a bit, say "no pee pee", get up and not more than 5 minutes later, he would have an accident.
On to day 3...
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