potty update

So it has been 1 week since Austin decided that he didn't want to wear diapers at all. And it has been 1 week without any night time accidents, he wakes up dry every morning and dry after each nap. Now during the day is a different story, he is still having accidents when he is really focused on something. And he doesn't like being asked if he has to go potty. But we are afraid he is not ready to tell us so we ask and have to listen to the famous "I don't want" to line (Which he says for just about everything) then watch as he stands at the potty and goes.

Happy Easter

Aunt Mel and Austin putting away the eggs after several egg hunts!!
An egg at Pap's house
Here he is excited that he found the last egg at our house.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!! This was the first Easter that Austin got really excited about finding eggs. Unfortunately Valerie was not around to share Easter with us she was visiting her grandparents and Dad. She just got back today and said she had a really good time. She must have been exhausted because she fell asleep 15mins. into the ride home.

Here are some pictures of Austin finding eggs. He enjoyed it so much we had several egg hunts, at our house, Pap's house and inside at Pap's house, many times at Pap's house. Aunt Mel and Uncle Bubba were here as well.

Easter eggs

All the wonderful sayings they came up with

Isn't she cute!

Working hard

After we were done everyone is pretty clean

Tonight we colored Easter eggs since Valerie will be off on a trip to she her dad and grandparents tomorrow. Everyone had a good time and it was much cleaner than I anticipated. Rob enjoyed writing comments about himself and others on the eggs, Austin liked dipping them and Valerie just wanted to make sure everyone got to color eggs making sure nobody took more than their share.

Bowling

The great bowlers Austin and daddy
Carrying the ball all by him self
His first roll
Rob has the week off and Austin has been asking to go bowling ever since he went a couple weeks ago with Ben, Benjamin and Poppy. So we took him on Tuesday, they didn't have the ramp to roll the ball down so he had to do it on his own. He had a really good time and daddy enjoyed trying to teach him. They even had little shoes for his feet!

adventures in potty land

We have been potty training Austin for what seems like forever (maybe 1 1/2-2 months). We can't use pull ups because he treats them like diapers and just pees in them so we are stuck using regular underwear so when he has an accident it gets pretty messy. Accidents have been getting less mostly when he is occupied by some activity. We noticed he has woken up from nap time and bed time, so we thought we would try to acknowledge this, so we told him if he wakes up without peeing in his diaper than he can pee in colors. We put food coloring in the potty most of the times it is blue so he can see the color change to green. Believe it or not it has worked so much so that to our dislike Austin woke up screaming at about 630am (he usually gets up anytime from 8-840) saying "I have to pee on potty". I ran upstairs and there he was diaper at the other end of the room dry, bed dry ready to pee in the potty. Although it is taken longer than we expected we are or should say Austin is making progress.

Socks to sleep

So everyone in the family has a sock fetish I guess?? It started with Rob, he takes his socks off were ever he has fallen asleep, most of the time in bed (f I work 3rd then he sleeps upstairs and that's where I find them) and I usually have a pile on his side of the bed, I got so angry that I stopped picking them up and started pushing them under the bed figuring that he wouldn't have clean socks, go looking for them and be just as frustrated by the socks. Then a couple weeks ago I was in Valerie's room and when I looked up (loft bed) I found several socks in between the mattress and rails clearly taken off after she has fallen asleep. And do you believe Rob had the nerve to make fun of her for it?? I'm sure if the bed was closer to the floor I would have found them on the floor. Then today at nap time when Austin woke up, he was asking for another one?? I didn't understand until he lifted up his pillow and I found a stash of socks under his pillow?? And get this he asks for socks before he goes to sleep. I don't understand this sock thing since I must have socks on at all times... This really puzzles me.

Valerie's report card

Valerie just got her 3rd mp report card and we are very proud of her. As everyone knows this year has been especially difficult for her (academically not socially of course). But this mp she brought just about all her grades up and only one slipped but it was only by one point. So the nights of 2hr homework are paying off. She got 5 A's and 2 B's. I'm not sure who is more excited about 4th grade ending Valerie or me. Go Valerie almost there!!