Blog needs a name change!

Say hello to baby boy Metcalfe! Due to make an apperance March 26th, 2011

Yup, that is exactly what you think it is, right there in the middle!:)

Katie's closets are getting cleaned out this weekend to start making room for an entirely new wardrobe which I am sure is already starting to be procured as I write this by Mimi and Grammie! The doctor says everything looks good and we go back in a month!

Potty Trained

Yup... that's right - we did it.

She's waking up from both naps and bedtime dry and this morning instead of saying.... Daddy come my room - she woke us up with Pee Pee Potty!


She is even telling me when we are out (like in the car) and holding it until we can get to a bathroom or set up her portable potty. She even told us she had to go and then waited during a car ride and then went in the potty in the back of the CRV in a parking lot yesterday on the way to a family party!

This potty is the coolest thing ever... you put this baggy thing in it and that little absorbent pad sucks up all the pee and you can just close up the bag and throw it out! And she uses it because I showed it to her at home before we tried to use it out.

She has no problem going in public bathrooms either as she stayed dry during the WHOLE party and never went in her pull up.
This nifty portable potty is also a training seat you put on the toilet so she can go in other bathrooms!


She also has gone poopy on the potty 3 times which gets her her train tracks to play with which is a huge motivator for her.

We also have a Dora training seat for our bathroom and she has no problem using that in fact tonight she only wanted to use that - which is GREAT because it's less clean up for us!


We have had no accidents for 4 or 5 days now and she hasn't gone in her pull ups since that first time we went out in them. We are so proud of her!!!!

Of course I had a ton of diapers left over... but I'll just hang on to them for baby number 2 and in case something happens and she decides using the potty is overrated.
Our little lady isn't so little anymore!

P.s. yes those are Thomas the Tank Engine boy briefs... she got to pick out new panties last week and she INSISTED that we get those... so I said - GO FOR IT! if it keeps her dry - I'm fine with it:)

Update

Katie had a completely dry day. We went to Target and she used the potty there. (with our portable potty seat of course) I couldn't believe it!!!

I put her in a pull up for the trip out and when we got home it was just a teeny tiny bit wet - which I think happened while she was playing trains or on the way home.

As you can see she is playing with her train tracks because she went poopy on the potty this afternoon, which we never thought was going to happen because she is so sensitive about it - so we will take for her after every time she goes poopy on the potty and hopefully that will be the motivation she needs to keep going. We have a long, family party to go to on Sunday... so with our portable seat and pull ups... we will see what happens:)

This was our picnic dinner in front of the first 20 mins of Toy Story 3, celebrating Katie's awesome potty day.

This was last night when Dave went to the soccer game... Katie and I had a girls night in the kitchen. I painted her toe nails (her color choice) and she did a paint with water while her toes dried....

Just wanted to throw some pics up for you - it's time for me to relax after a long 2 weeks. Dave brought me flowers for all my hard work and now we're watching Toy Story 3:)

More to come later! Happy Weekend!

Holy Crap it's working

OK so when I decided to try potty training this week I wasn't entirely sure that it was going to work... but yesterday we only had 2 VERY small accidents where she was telling us she had to go and then she finished on the potty which is big because the day before she wasn't finishing on the potty. So, 2 accidents in a whole day made me VERY happy.

Then she went to bed last night and had her ceremonial bottle of milk, (the last of our big girl series of changes to make because she won't drink milk out of anything else) and when we all woke up this morning late at 7:30 - she was DRY and went pee pee potty first thing... and it was a good amount!

Could it be working? She is doing SO WELL! I promised to take her to the train table today as I had told her at bedtime that we would go somewhere to have fun today because we've been in the house for 2 weeks and she immediately said Train Table.... So I am kinda nervous about going out, but I think I will put her in pull ups and maybe take the portable potty thing I had bought for her way back when I started thinking about this months ago.

Of course, now that I think about it, the train table is as far away from the bathrooms as can be at Barnes and Noble... which was a dumb design as I've been in others where the bathrooms are right next to the kids area.

Her big prize is going to be a Thomas Beginners Roadway Set... it's the most basic one AND we have a coupon for it - so it will will be super cheap too!
I know she doesn't need ANY MORE toys AT ALL for the rest of her life... but I figured we had to use something to really motivate her to go poopy on the potty - so we'll try that.

Cross your fingers for us that we don't have any HUGE mishaps on our first trip out trying to use real potties......

Potty training take 2

update

I decided since we were stuck in the house this week as I'm trying desperately to completely get over this cold - that we could try potty training.

Today is the morning of day 3 and I am happy to say we have had 4 successful pee pees on the potty and one 1/2 accident where she told us she had to go and started but then finished on the potty!

She's very interested and loves her Dora and Elmo panties. I put her in a diaper during naps and for nighttime and I think pooping is going to be an issue because she has issues pooping anyway (holding it in because it's hard, etc....) but if I can get her to pee pee on the potty for 80% of the time... I'm happy! I wanted to try to make sure it was well established before the baby comes ...

more updates later - we are getting ready for a play date.

Halloween Weekend!!

What a busy weekend we have had!!!

Mommy is still sick with this cold which is making her pretty sad and frustrated cause she's tired of "taking it easy." But we had a fun filled weekend anyway... and now he's sitting on the couch practically hugging the humidifier drinking lots of water with some tissues right next to her:)

We went to mimi and grumps where I got to test out their new garbage cans before they used them, eat pudding for the first time, touch the inside of a pumpkin and practice for trick or treating.


Then we went to the mall to trick or treat in the morning and went back out when we got home to New Jersey with my good friend Mia. I LOVE trick or treating! I keep saying more trick or treat and I'm walking around the house singing halloween, halloween, halloween! I LOVE candy and have eaten 2 whole MINI tootsie roll pops and a mini bag of m&m's and it's more candy than I've ever had so I'm acting kind of silly!

Daddy made me the most awesome pumpkin ever. Mommy says she wants to try to find a way to preserve it because it's so cool!!! We ate dinner tonight by Thomas Candlelight:)

I loved our costumes even though most people didn't understand who we we were. Lots of people thought mommy was a chicken of a duck and some didn't think daddy and I were in costume at all - that made mommy sad but every time someone figured it out, she wanted to hug them!!!

Now I'm coming down from my sugar high and mommy and daddy are gonna put me to bed soon to get ready for another week! Happy Halloween!!!!

Short update

Mommy has been sick ALL WEEK with a really really bad cold. I guess when you're growing a baby, and you get sick it's worse than usual. Especially since she tried really hard not to take any medicine for it. She's getting better, but you can tell she's still not feeling great.

I got to hang out with Daddy on Monday and then play with my friend Mia tuesday morning and then Mimi came on Wednesday cause mommy doesn't want to get me sick, so she is trying to stay away from me. Especially since Halloween is this weekend, she wants to make sure she's all better for trick or treating in the Danbury Mall.

I'm starting to like dress up and want to wear my ernie sweater around the house, but mommy and daddy keep telling me it's too hot to wear it and I don't really like that.

I threw my VERY FIRST temper tantrum complete with stamping my feet when mommy said I had to leave Mia's house the other day... Mommy was laughing because she said she had never seen anything like it... I just wanted to play more.

Christmas is coming up. Mommy and I talk about it all the time and when I saw this diaper cake she made for Debbie's Baby, and said I wanted to hold Potato Head... mommy said I could ask Santa Clause and maybe he would bring me one. So, let me get this straight... I get to ask for all the stuff I want to play with? I think I can deal with this holiday. What confuses me is that mommy talks about the stuff she wants for Christmas and it sounds boring... things like plates, and cooking utensils and a DVD player to replace our broken one... I sure hope that's not the kind of stuff I get!!!


Ummmm I'm still obsessed with Thomas and can tell you all of the trains names... Mommy says they all look the same to her but I think she's crazy!

Here is a picture from the other day that daddy took to prove that he can put my hair in a bow too:) Happy Thursday everyone.