Chapters Of Me

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

2 weeks is a charm!!!

It's been 2 whole weeks since we started using "Big Girl" panties and my baby girl is potty-trained!!! Now, I do realize that I should be ready for the occasional accident...but she has made great progress in just 2 weeks and is running to the bathroom when she needs to go pee-pee AND poo-poo...yay,yay,yay!!! We finally did it. I was starting to feel like we were never going to get this child potty-trained.

I do have a confession to make though....... there has been a big controversy over spanking in my house. My husband believed, that if she got a spanking when she went potty in her pull-up, panties, etc..that she would potty-train much faster. Well, for over a year now, I have argued that point with him. I didn't want to turn a positive training experience into something negative. I felt that she didn't need to be punished at any time for accidents, in fear that it would only discourage her from potty-training all together. Well, after putting panties on her and getting very serious about it, I decided I would warn her first. She had her first accident and I made her help clean it up and warned her that if it happened again, she would get a spanking. Well of-coarse, it happened again and reluctantly, I gave her a spanking (well more like a swat, that hurt nothing but her feelings and mine both). She was only given a spanking(swat) one more time for the next accident and since then, has had no more accidents.

She calmly says this to us now..."I don't poo-poo,pee-pee my pannies or I WILL getta spankin" after she uses the potty. Now this is a little girl that understands very clearly what's going on. That's all it took...a little persistence and just a couple of swats on the bottom...and now she is, officially, a "Big Girl".

Slacking

OK, so this last week my husband and I both have been slacking with our workouts. We started out good, but as soon as we said we were too busy one day, it was over. We never picked it back up. So after not working out and snacking on goodies that should never even be in our house...I feel terrible... and not just terrible with guilt, but physically drained! Junk does NOT do the body good!

I am 100% back in the game now! I am running a couple of miles on my treadmill just for a headstart on my week. I am determined to shed these pounds...and I am holding myself accountable by posting my progress for everyone to see.

Medieval Times

These are pics from our trip to Medieval Times with the kids. For the people who have never been there before, at the end of the show, the knights throw roses to the young women in the audience. Here is Ava with her rose that the knight handed to her...

Almost every young girl had been given a rose, every young girl except for Ariana. She sat there (not so patiently) waiting...hoping that he would come back by to throw a rose to her, as they started to wrap everything up because the show was ending.

Disappointment poured over her face and then here comes our knight with something for Ariana. It wasn't a rose...but it was so much better than that. It was a sash that said "Queen of Love and Beauty". This was something that wouldn't wilt and she would be able to have for a keepsake to remember this day. Her face lit up as he handed it to her and she blushed just a little because no other girl there received this that night.

This story is very symbolic for me. We are all so consumed with our wants. Wanting what others have, wondering why we don't have these things we think we need. If only we would be patient, we could see that maybe God has something so much better in store for us. He knows the desires of our heart and he wants to give us these things, but rarely do we trust him. We try so hard on our OWN to get the things we want, but are still never satisfied. If we could just let go of what we think we want then God just might bless us with something that we would love so much more!

Ava...putting herself to bed.

These pics were taken about a month ago... we had spent the day out of town and got home really late. It's times like this when you really stop to enjoy your kids...when they're sleeping! :)

We all piled into the house, carrying diaper bags and shopping bags along with the baby and drinks from our trip. My husband and I were distracted, trying to calm our crying baby and remove him from the car seat. My husband left me to tend to him while he went to find Ava and put her jammies on her for bedtime when he found her like this....