For those not interested in hearing details of potty action, you may just want to move on to your next blog read for the day! I am encouraged and I feel the need to share! I had marked my calendar about a month ago for this week to be the potty training week. The only thing we had on the calendar were the revival services in the evening which made for a pleasant time at home.
Ryan had been showing signs of being "ready" to train for several months so I knew I just needed to do it.
Day 1- Monday- Extremely frustrating to say the least. I am not sure what my expectations were but Ryan didn't jump right into the game. I was cleaning up accidents all day with no success in the actually potty. I remembered clearly having a similar first day with Peter so I committed myself to 3 days before I would give up.
Day 2- Tuesday- Mildly frustrating. It is so amazing how quickly his bladder muscle responded to not having a diaper. I won't go into details! However, we only had one small success with the actually potty but there were far less accidents to clean up
Day 3- Wednesday- A breakthrough at last! This boy currently has the bladder of a camel. He woke up with a full diaper and then didn't potty again until 11:30- I followed him around like a hawk all morning; we read on the potty, played games on the potty but no action. I finally relented, we went outside and I turned my back and the accident happened! It wasn't until 6:30 that he finally pee peed in the potty. We were forced to use the office bathroom. With a stroke of divine leading, I thought realized the candles. Ryan loves candles. I told him, "if you go potty I'll let you blow out the candles". It worked or he had no choice or he would explode. We had one more success before bedtime so I am encouraged! I think we might make it.
Ryan really enjoyed scooping out the gunk in the pumpkin. He continued to play with the pumpkin insides for at least an hour!
Don't let Emma's smile fool you. She was saying," gross, ewe, I don't like this, this feels yucky" the entire time! She finally empties her pumpkin with help from Daddy.
Finished products! Check out last year's post....my little babies are growing up
We headed to the NC State fair last Friday. The day was cold but enjoyable none the less.
This was Ryan's first fair ride and he even did it on his own! He's such a big boy!
This is what Peter and Emma chose as their first ride.
Philip's favorite thing about the fair is fresh corn dogs. We spotted this booth at 10:30 and dug in. They were really good! Better than the ones I made this summer.
The big pumpkins are always fun to see!
I have decided that I will have 2 job when I grow up. My first job will be to "tell people about God". My second job will be to work at the post office.
(This is the one who knows chiming in ---- I don't know all of it but I do know some of it). Here the siblings are hugging while overlooking the southern view from Pilot Mountain.
So this is a picture of all of us ---- that being (from Right) Daisy (puppy dog), Uncle Pete, Peter, Philip and Emma.
We had just been climbing some rock faces and that is what it looks like when you are showing your muscles. That is one tough fella. Peter and Emma both hiked about 8 miles in 2 days on trails that were described as strenuous. The first day we ascended about 1,200 feet in elevation and then descended that same amount. The second day we probably did that over again ---- give or take a few hundred feet.
I thought that their mother would really like to see them standing in front of this sign. They are so cute.
As you can see ---- all of that hiking really wore them out. We all definitely slept well.
A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of an easy picture editing site. I tried it out tonight and it was fun! This is my first creation. You should try it too!
I realized shortly into the morning that Ryan would be out of the picture and I should take advantage of this relative calm. I decided we would make cut-out sugar cookies. We had a good time although it was a bit frustrating at times.
After the cookies and after lunch I realized that again, I should be creative and find something for us to do that we don't do often because of little toddler hands! This is what I found.
We love you and wanted to wish you the happiest of birthdays. I know you are going to blow the water out of your mid terms!!!! We are so proud of you and thankful that you are who we call daddy, friend and sweetheart.
Well here are some shots from our weekend in Charlotte. Philip's cousin Noelle got married on Saturday and we had a great time being there.Here's the bride on their way to the car.
It's not too often we are all together and somewhat dressed up with a 6th person available to take the picture.
