trained!

Just realized I never followed up with the last potty training post.  Lola has been trained since my last post and is doing very well.  We put her in pull-ups at night.  Some mornings she wakes up dry, some mornings she is wet.  She wears underwear during naps and is generally okay - at school she is 100% and at home she is more like 90%.  Don't know why there is a difference. 

Got to hang with my college roommate Jen this morning.  It had been WAY too long since I saw her last.  It was great to catch up. 

Both girls are napping right now, but I didn't even dare to try and take a nap.  I know if I tried then someone would have woken up!  Plus it takes me so darn long to fall asleep that it is never worth it unless Ryan is home.  I have never been a good napper. 

Potty training…ugh. I don’t think we are doing it like most people do it. I think you are supposed to take a weekend and try it, but we have been half-assing it now for a while. Basically she goes on the toilet at school fairly consistently. But her diapers are not usually dry. For the past few weeks (actually almost a month) when she runs around naked (or without a diaper but with a shirt on), she goes on the toilet every time, and has only had a few accidents. And when I say ‘accidents’ I mean little dribbles as she runs to the toilet because she got to the point where she had to go badly and she just couldn’t hold it all in. So a month ago I bought some underwear and tried those but for some reason she had a few accidents where she actually pottied full on in her underwear, so I just stopped using them because she seemed to do fine when she was naked. Last Friday she woke up DRY in the morning! She usually wakes up SUPER wet… so I thought that maybe it was time. So this past Saturday I pulled the underwear back out and she did great for 2 days! But Lola is so extreme...I would put a diaper on her when we had to go places and she would potty or poop in her diaper and not care at all. She would go all day in a poopy or wet diaper. But she is obviously capable of going in the toilet and understanding when she has to go and capable of holding it in.

So this morning when Ryan took her to school, he asked her lead teacher Sharrita what we should do. I hate to put her in diapers because I know she will just go in them and not care. But I know it will be a lot of work for the teachers to deal with her in underwear. I think trying underwear at school might be both easier and more difficult at the same time. Easier because a lot of the other kiddos are potty trained (she is in 2-3 year old room) and they go, and she sees them go. This is why she is good about consistently going at school even though her diapers are not usually dry. But more difficult because she gets distracted at school because there is so much going on. I don’t know if she will want to go inside to go potty (or even realize she needs to go potty) when she is right in the middle of playing outside. Anywhoo, much to my surprise, Sharrita was super excited and said she would put Lola in her underwear and see how she did! So I guess we will see when I pick her up today! :)



This is Lola yesterday in her Dora underwear
listening to Daddy's i-pod.  



Back to work!

So today is my first day back to work!  And what am I doing?  Obviously not working...  ha ha!  This return to work is bittersweet.  I think because this is (most likely) our last child so I really tried to enjoy my leave as much as I could.  I really enjoyed the days when Lola was at school and I could hang out with Luca by myself.  I truly enojyed spending time with Luca, and I felt so much more relaxed and comfortable this time.  I don't think I really savored every minute with Lola, but this time around was totally different in a good way!

We had an awesome 4th of July.  We went down to my parents' house and relaxed for a few days.  I went and bought Lola some fireworks.  It was the first time I had bought fireworks since college!  I only bought the 'boring' kid-friendly fireworks - snap pop thingies, smoke bombs, and some parachutes.  She even stayed up to watch fireworks!  It was almost 2 hours past her bedtime, but she was able to stay awake and see them. 

The girls in their coordinating outfits!