Potty Training...My Baby....

 Well, I did not expect this time to come so quick-Molly started about now too, but with Maggie I decided I was going to wait till she was 2 or just before 2.  She clearly had other plans....This was all her idea NOT mine...

Wednesday Maggie got up and went to the bathroom put her chair on the potty and wanted on-so I humored her and after she ran to her room got some panties we had picked her up one day brought them to me and insisted on wearing them. Before I let her wear them over her diaper cuz she likes to be like Molly-there was NO way she was putting the diaper on. I said what the heck, I will embrace this and go with it so day one began and the decision was made in all of 2 minutes. So I grabbed what I had on hand to make it fun for her..Her Potty Treat Jar, and  I whipped up a quick "Potty Chart" and it was game on- prior to this day she had NEVER gone on the potty just pretended so I was ready to spend lots of time at the pot with no success!

Oct. 12: Day 1:

She actually went on the potty she had 2 accidents and they were both in her chair while she was eating-She did have a diaper on for naps/bed and ended up poopin in her diaper right after I put it on for bed, we need to work that one... Overall I was stoked and thought of a game plan for the next day- we went to Target and she got to pick out a new little potty and some new panties ( I hated the potty we had for Molly and didnt want to use it again) She picked Minnie Mouse and was set and so excited she showed them to everyone we saw...

 Can you tell she LOVES her panties!!!!

 Oct. 13: Day 2:

She had one accident and that wasn't until 7pm and even started going on to the potty without me asking her or taking her and she actually went both those time that she did that. She was rockin the potty and I was just thrilled at how easy and ready she really was and to think I doubted her....She is waking up dry after both her naps, but I am keeping a diaper on just in case till we move her to a big girl bed where she can get out and go potty if she needs too!

 Oct. 14: Day 3:

NOT ONE ACCIDENT!!!  I was ready to start this day and also nervous cuz we were going to run some errands in town and I didn't want her to pee her pants, but didn't want to have a wet car-seat either. When we went to town I put her in a diaper right before we left and took her potty/asked her while we were out and about. She went while we were in town and LOVED washing her hands in the big bathroom.... I bought the slip on diapers instead of pull-ups cuz they were cheaper and the same thing ( I didn't buy one pull-up with Molly cuz I was anti, but after all the washing of Molly's seat I decided with Maggie this was good at least until she didn't need to be asked every so often if she needed to go potty) She can go well over 2 hours without having to go potty!!!

 

Maggie enjoying her "Potty Jar" with M&M's 

 Maggie's potty chart- as of today she has about 15 stars on this sweet little chart!When she gets 30 she gets to go to the store and pick a prize- I honestly thought 30 would take a long time-Not with this kid!

Oct, 15: Day 4:
Today didn't start off so hot with  both a number 1&2 accident first thing this morning- Then through the day and town she didn't have an accident. Right before bed she had one accident and has stayed dry since. So I would say she is still doing pretty awesome!!! I know she will have good and bad days so we will just keep at it....

I am so proud of this little girly, I am blown away by how awesome she is doing and how crazy this all is still- I was not mentally prepared yet for her to grow into such a big girl in the last 4 days. I was planning on getting rid of the Binky in the next couple  weeks, but I guess that will wait till we have this down a little better. Can't do too many big changes all at one time..... Way to go Maggie- You are Rockin @ this Potty thing!!!

Maggie @ 20 Months Old...

O Maggie, Maggie, Maggie... You are such a character, you keep my life extra interesting and full of drama and laughs. Gosh, I love you baby girl! Happy 20 months.

 Maggie @ 20 Months Old

*Weight: 23.3 lbs

*Size 12-18/18-24 months Shirts and 12-18mo. Pants pretty much fall off her, but 12 mo. are to short...

*Size 5 shoe

*Size 3 diaper

 *Loves Mickey Mouse and Dumbo the most- will watch other shows Molly likes too

*Loves the color yellow, in fact EVERYTHING is yellow even after you tell her the real color

*Loves animals, pretty much freaks with excitement when she sees any

 *She really likes other kids, until they try to take her binky or blanket or touch her in the car then she really has a freak out

*Loves to dance, has to wear her own ballet clothes to Molly's Ballet, pretty much pounds on the door the whole time to go to her "bwallet"

*Loves babies

*Loves the rain- when it rains she likes to just stand still and take it all in under the pouring rain

 *When Molly went in another car and met us somewhere and they arrived, Maggie ran to her and embraced her with the biggest hug ever and just kept saying "La La" ":La La" (what she calls Molly)

*Starting to finally sleep better at night hardly waking up at all-thank goodness

 *Sweet little girl went to sit on the potty then went and got her panties and took her diaper off and Hates to wear a diaper now so we are in Potty Training mode-more on that next... She is doing pretty good!

*Favorite thing is "tetchup" dip for anything that it might go with and she even dips everything else in the "tetchup" too

*Still really clingy to me, she even freaks if Clint un-buckles her from her car seat.. Sometimes I think she is getting better, then it back fires the next second.

*If you ask her how old she is she always says "two" and laughs after cuz she knows she not really 2

*This kid will NOT leave the house without her "bowa" (bow) in her hair or her "Sheeoos"(shoes) on her feet

*Loves to wear my shoes around the house-whenever I need a pair one shoe is always missing...

*Loves sleeping with her blanket, binky, Violet dog, bear bear and minnie blanket

 Love you so much Maggie K... Your getting far to big!

Pumpkin Patch 2011...

We had some friends invite to the Pumpkin Patch over the weekend and we were planning on going at some point anyways so decided why not go with friends. Molly is the oldest of the 4 girls then Maggie and the other two are a few months apart. They all love each other and love playing together. Molly was SO excited to go and kept saying "Mom, WHERE IS THE PUNKIN PATCH, I can't see it" Once we got there she could hardly contain herself. We started off at the petting zoo-Mag freaked out about them all and was running and screaming in delight the whole time. Molly was so busy and had to go to it all every last bit and even go by some things twice like the "super cute little bunny rabbits"

 Molly was so brave on the slide that had you land in a bunch of corn, after the first two times she got a little more nervous. Maggie loved it the first time and then would NOT go down again. They did love to play in the corn though!

 The Griffiths Family...

 All the girls LOVED the horsey swings. They went around on their own and well my girls did it all alone even little mag. We kept asking her if she would get off and she would say "no, no, no" the only way to get her off was to tell her we were going on a train to see the cows.

Molly

 Callaway

 Maggie

 Lexie

 Train ride

 To the patch, aside from the cold and wind it was a perfect night.  We already have quite a few pumpkins at our house so we didn't need a giant one. We let Molly pick one she could carry and called it good. Then Maggie wanted one so we found her her very own little pumpkin. Well then Molly decided she needed a baby one too so we ended up with 3 pumpkins..

 The perfect pumpkin according to Molly and we thought it was pretty good too!

 Maggie's little pumpkin.. She carried it around the remainder of our adventure.

 Broadhead Family

 Griffiths Family

 Harris Family

 All the little girls.. 

Funny story: Right after this picture Molly and Callaway went by the little pond Molly was throwing a rock into the water and when she threw the rock her little pumpkin went too. She instantly burst into tears and the tractor was coming to pick us up so her and Clint ran and picked another little pumpkin and she was pleased as punch.

After the Farm we went out to dinner with everyone and had a great time. Both girls fell asleep on the way home and Molly couldn't stop talking about today. Thanks for the invite guys, we loved it!

Great Sunday...

I love Conference Sunday...Not only do we get to hear from the leaders of the church and the Prophet which is much harder with two wild children who can only sit still for so long, but we seemed to get some great messages amongst the crazies.  The bonus to Conference is not having to get ready for church and staying home all day. We have been going going so much lately and have hardly seen Clint at all so this is just what we needed a family chill day at home.

 Molly has been wanting to do lots of crafts so we loaded up today. "Grandma Grape" brought down pumpkins for the kids so we decided to paint ours. The girls were in heaven and LOVED it, I think he turned out pretty darn cute. We have another we may end up painting too!

 

I bought these foam Halloween face stickers and thought it would be fun to make their own little pumpkin, Molly really loves these kind of crafts and is so cute and clever. Maggie is really enjoying them too and these are easy enough she can pretty much do it herself which is how she likes it.

Molly's "Angry Eyes" Pumpkin

 Maggie's cute little pumpkin

 Next up Grandpa Craig was coming over and we told him we would make him a treat so Molly picked a Halloween cake (surprise-aside from her Birthday, Halloween is big on Mol's brain these days)

 I caught some sneaky fingers quite a bit in this little cake baking experience..

 O yep, I see some of the same sneaky fingers... seriously could not keep those cute little fingers out of the cake!

 Seriously.......

It was a great Sunday with great messages and fun crafts with my girlies-Perfect in my book!