POTTY TRAINING!!! Day 2

Last night I didn't sleep at all.  I dreamed about potty training and woke up every 20 minutes worrying that Mary had wet the bed.  I would go check on her and all would be fine.  It didn't help that Ashlin, was the most noisy sleeper ever last night and I could also hear her grunting and moving on the baby monitor!  At 5:30 I woke and thought I should check on Mary, but decided against it since she had been fine every other time I check her.  Just as I drift off, 5:45 I hear some little girl breathing noises, then I open my eyes and Mary is staring at me.  I reach down and sure enough she has tinkled all over herself and the floor next to my bed!!!  I have to at least give her credit for coming to get me. 
The morning got off to a great start.  We only went through about 4 pairs of panties and tinkled at least 3 times in the potty.  I did leave her with daddy a couple times while I was putting away laundry, going to the potty myself... and both times the moment he took his eyes off her we had a mess!  It was his bad luck! This afternoon wasn't quite as good.  We had to get out the upholstery cleaner for the couch, clean our booster chair during lunch and dinner, and we threw several fits because we really wanted to wear the purple underwear we had already gotten "wet"... 
Tonight we took a bath, and I said screw it, and put her in a pull up... I thought we both needed a break and this is definitely "breaking" the rules of the book.  Anyway, since then she has gone to the potty two times once poop and once tinkle without wetting the pullup!  Yeah!!!  And tonight she will be sleeping in a pull up.
Kevin did share his opinion with me that she is too young and that she will regress immediately when she gets to daycare and someone isn't watching her like a hawk.  That may be true, but if this means at home she will start pooping in the potty, it was totally worth it.  I still haven't decided it I am going to go with big girl panties or pull ups tomorrow.  I am going to drink a glass of wine and ponder now that she has gone to sleep.

POTTY TRAINING!!!

So I may be insane!  Several of the kids in Mary's daycare are starting to get potty trained.  Including a couple that are very close to her age.  So the competitive mother in me (this is not a good thing) thought that it might be a good idea to try to potty train Mary.  She is 21 months old, and let me say (I am not biased at all) brilliant!  She has been telling us when she goes poop for a while and she seems to know when she is going tinkle.
A good friend passed along a book that teaches you how to potty train in 3 days.  According to the book you throw away diapers and give them some "big-girl" panties.  Then you load them up on liquids and fiber so they will tinkle and poop and often! 
So we started this morning.  We "threw away" the diapers, actually we put them in Ashlin's closet.  Then we put on our big girls panties and I waited and waited and waited.  Finally we tinkled on the rug.  Then she tinkled in her closet, then on the floor in the den.  Then in her booster chair!  At this point I am thinking, WTF have I gotten myself into!  Mind you I was running her to the potty everytime she started to go and asking her non-stop to tell Mommy when she needed to go potty.  Then came naptime.  She slept for over two hours and never wet the bed!  I felt a little more hopeful!  This afternoon she successfully tinkled in the potty without going in her panties first twice!  Then tonight right before bed she pooped in the potty!!!  I have never been so proud!!!  Anyway, we will see how tonight goes.  Even though we went through 12 pairs of undies today, it might be worth it.  I will update again tomorrow! 

Just a couple pics of the kids!

They are both getting so big!  I can't believe Ashlin is almost 3 months old, and Mary will soon be 21months!

 

Vegas!!!

Kevin and I went to Vegas a couple weeks ago to celebrate his birthday and our 6th anniversary.  He had never been, and it is one of my favorite places!  We stayed at the Monte Carlo, which is a beautiful casino, but I was very disappointed in our room!  The first night we could hear everything that went on in the room next to us, and at 4:00 in the morning a very inebriated man kept sticking his key into our door trying to get in.  After about 10 minutes, I went to the door, and explained to him that he had the wrong room!  The next day they moved us to a better room :) We walked around and enjoyed some of my favorite places to eat (Mon Ami Gabi's) and played a few slots.  The first day we both lost. That night we decided to enter a poker tournament.  I didn't really want to play, but Kevin wanted me to enter with him.  We both ended up making it to the final table!  Kevin came in 7th place and I came in 5th place!  I would have done better, but my flush was beat by a full house :( The next two days things went much better, we played blackjack and won, watched the Soccer World Cup final and semifinal in and Irish Pub where Kevin got to eat an Irish breakfast (see pics below), and played blackjack some more and won!  We ended the trip with the most wonderful dinner at Olives at the Bellagio.  We sat outside overlooking the fountain and actually got wet from the spray!  We were excited when we got home, it was the longest both of us had been away from the kids! 

The flower room at Bellagio

View of the fountains at Bellagio from our lunch at Mon Ami Gabi's

We went to Paris on our honeymoon, and the other Paris for our Anniversary!

Kevin enjoying Irish breakfast while watching the World Cup

My big win! On a penny slot!

View from dinner at Olives