Potty Stories

The realm of pottying has beena wonderful adventure around here lately. We seem to have really gotten the nack of this thing down as long as Kaelyn and I tag team it. For the last week, we have managed 1 to 2 accidents a day, and most of those have been in the evening or when she is outside. She has been so cute about it and gets so excited when she goes. She has gotten used to using other peoples potties too. Yeah, I don't have to carry the potty in my bag everywhere. It stays in the car, but it doesn't have to always go in now. Today, she came running to me and said "pee pee" pointing to her panties and we ran to the potty and she went. As of late, her saying "pee pee" has been an after the fact thing, so this was an awesome step in the right direction. She is dry most mornings now and at nap times, so my diaper wash has been almost nothing. I have really enjoyed learning so much through this process and Kaelyn enjoys being successful. One of her new favorite things is to put on her Elmo panties. We only wear these in the house for now, but you mention them and she goes buserk, "elmo, elmo, elmo" over and over again. She won't let you help her put them on. Of course she doesn't quite have the nack down yet, but her efforts are priceless. She most often gets both feet in one hole and then tries to pull them up and starts whining. It is really cute except for the whining.

She can say her Name

Kaelyn said her first and last name today. I was trying to get her to coroporate with something and so I was using her full name. Next thing I know she is saying "Kayin Gurmin". It was too cute. And then she counted to ten two times while we were playing with a mancala board. She skips out on seven but belts out eight and gets all excited when she says ten.

Another cute thing was that she was coloring a picture yesterday and when she was done she came into the kitchen and put it in the trash can, opened the drawer with the towels in it and then started scrubing the floor with it and then proceeded to wipe of her table and then unfortunately her nose. Yum yum. She certainly is an imetater. And she has started to crawl around like different animals and makes animal noises. I love it because it is a game she will let me play with her.

Amazing

Friday was an amazing day for Kaelyn. When Kevin came home from Lawton, Kaelyn saw him at the door and started saying daddy, daddy, daddy really loud and running toward the door. She gave him a huge hug and kisses. She has never done this before to either of us when we come home from being gone any amount of time. It was so very precious. She used to just snub us when we came home as to say, "I'll teach you to leave me again".


The other amazing thing that she did on this fabulous Friday was count to 6 almost all by herself. I don't even remember what it was that we were counting, but I said one, then she said one, two, I said three and then out of the blue she said three, four, five, six. She had only ever said one two before and all of our counting books only go up to five, so I have no idea how she learned six. They pick up things so stinkin fast.


She has been working with Grammy doing a cute song with actions called Teddy Bear. I had done it with her maybe two times before and when we did it this weekend, she did all of the hand motions. it was too cute. I am going to try and get it on video soon. We love our onry cute toot. That is all for now.




She looks too grown up in this pic. She is sporting her new recycled wool shorties I experiment with making.
I also made some flannel fitted diapers. I like them a lot.
Love the open mouth before the bite is even on the spoon. I know, maybe not appropriate, but this is after her bath running around with her lion towel on her head and for some reason carrying a Supernanny book. She was having lots of fun.
checking out the cute baby lions at the zoo. They are starting to get big now and were playing lots, putting their paws on the glass.