I have several things to catch up on.

Delaney’s refused having the potty seat sitting on the “big potty”, preferring to balance herself on the big seat by herself. She’s also has been trying to go potty by herself the past couple of days. We also had a poop in the potty again yesterday! (Unfortunately not so for today.) She’s still having pee accidents every so often, but that’s usually when I’m not paying a lot of attention. She had an accident this morning, but it was in the bathroom floor when she was trying to get to the potty by herself. At least that’s easy to clean up!

School registration is in 2 weeks. I’ll be at the school all day, volunteering at the PTA booth. 34 days until school starts and some resemblance to routine returns to the household. Unfortunately for me that also means I’ll be getting up early again. No more sleeping until 8:30!

Brianna read the first Harry Potter book this past week. She really enjoyed it and is looking forward to reading the next book. We let her watch the first movie the other day. I wasn’t upstairs when she was watching it, but JR was. He said she was talking about the book the whole time…”that happened in Chapter 2″ “that happened in Chapter 5″, etc. There was a lot of stuff that was left out of the movie, but thankfully we explained to her ahead of time about how they would have to leave stuff out, otherwise the movie would be a mini-series.

JR bought some Steelers stickers and added them to his motorcycle. I’ll post some pictures when he gets back. He took Brianna to go for a ride and buy her some new shoes and himself a holster for his backup weapon.

Tags : Brianna, Delaney, Harry Potter, JR video, poop, potty, potty training, school, steelers, toilet training

For some reason, Delaney has started calling her poop “turtle”. I don’t have the slightest idea where she got that from. But, now when she poops, instead of saying she has “yuckies” like she used to, now she says she has “turtle”. And, of course, she always makes “turtles” in her panties and NOT on the potty.

She is doing great with peeing on the potty and staying dry during nap time. Although, last night, for some strange reason, she was sitting on the futon upstairs and peed…but didn’t say a word…she just sat in it, for who knows how long, until I picked her up to take her downstairs to get ready for bed. I was NOT happy. I poured a bunch of vinegar on the spot. (That reminds me, I need to add vinegar to the shopping list.) Hopefully it won’t stink.

Anyway, like I said, in general, she’s doing great with keeping dry during the day. She’s even been dry for about 5 nights this past week. Tonight she REFUSED to wear the “backup diaper” (the diaper I put on over her panties at night). So, I made it quite clear to her that she was NOT to pee in the bed. The other night she woke herself up at midnight to pee on the potty, so I know she’s capable. I’m crossing my fingers to see how it goes.

Tags : Delaney, poop, potty, potty training, toilet training

I’m totally dragging this morning! Glad I don’t have anything “pressing” early this morning. Delaney woke up at midnight and took herself to the potty (YAY) and of course there was a big ruckus in the house over it! Unfortunately, it was hard to fall asleep after that! She was dry again when she woke up this morning too…that’s about 4 mornings out of the past week.

She’s been dry most of the time during the day lately. She’s even started taking herself to the potty sometimes instead of me having to prompt her all the time.

We’ve ventured out in public a few times without a diaper. Most of the time I make sure she’s got the plastic training pants covers over top of her thick training panties. The last time we went out to the library (Monday), I did just per her “Dora” panties on her and leave it at that. I knew we were only going to be gone about an hour and she went to the potty right before we left, so I felt pretty confident. She did great!

Tags : Delaney, potty, potty training, toilet training