I love this time of year and making homemade ice cream. I enjoyed it as a child and now I am passing on the tradition to my girls 🙂
Big Sis
4 Year Old Will Not Poop in Potty
You are probably like… what in the world is Jen writing on her blog?
But yes it was… notice I said “was” true. My wonderful four year old Madisyn is so special and soooo head strong like her mommy. Oh the stubborness comes out on a daily basis and the power struggles, but I wouldn’t live a day with out them ;).
She has been potty trained for pee peeing for about 2 years now. No problems whatsoever on potty training her that way, but she always just downright refused to poop(we call it woo woo) in the potty. She would always wait and go in her pull-up at night. Now granted she has always had tummy problems and is on medicine, so I think that is what led up to her just afraid to go woo wooing in the potty.
Well she is 4 1/2 now and mommy Jen had enough of her power struggles so I finally just said no more pull-ups at night. She was ok with this at first, but then the days started going by and there goes day 3, there goes day 6 and eventually we were on day 8 and she STILL had not went woo woo in the potty. What did I tell you… she is one head strong little girl. Definitely has the whole mind over matter game going on.
Last night you could tell she was in obvious pain. I was trying everything to coax her to just go try and sit on the potty. I had already told her at the beginning of this whole thing that if she would go, I would take her to disney world. She said no thanks mom I would rather just have my pull-up. STUBBORN lol.
So I thought ok, well since she is so attached to her pull-ups I will put one on her but cut out the seat of it and make her sit on the potty. So I did that and what do you know BINGO…. she went and woo wooed in the potty. BUT the funny thing is… I was on the phone talking to my friend Carrie Lauth, when Madisyn came running and said really LOUD
mommy mommy, I woo wooed a big one in the potty mommy. It’s really big come look.
Now, I had already talked to Carrie about Madisyn just a little bit at the beginning of the conversation, so I’m not sure if Carrie put two and two together of what Madisyn was saying… I was just hurrying up and getting off the phone and dying in embarrassment LOL.
I got off the phone and ran into the bathroom and picked her up and we both cried. We were so happy but yet crying. I immediately dropped everything and took her to target and let her pick out three toys (of course on the clearance aisle hahaha). We rocked out and danced for the longest time last night. Went and got ice cream. I really wanted to play it up so she would think that this was just the greatest thing ever. She is still talking about it and so far so good today all is well.
Anyways, hopefully our story will help others. Surely we are not the only ones that are dealing with this problem ;).
Kids Say the Darndest Things
My four year old is always keeping us rolling with stuff she says, but this weekend was the icing on the cake. She was just rolling with the phrases this weekend and today. What is even funnier… we will laugh at her and she gets mad and yells ITS NOT FUNNY GUYS!
One phrase was… her and little sis were fighting over a toy. Pretty normal life around here ;). Anyways little sis was not giving up the toy so big sis said: “You want a piece of me”! HAHAHAHA. See me and DH kid around and sometimes I’ll tell him, that same phrase so I guess she is picking up my words ;).
Second phrase was…Madisyn was being stubborn today and I was stressing hehe and said “Madisyn you are killing me.” She got this serious look on her face and was thinking a minute and said: “Mommy I am really sorry for killing you” Poor thing doesn’t know what killing means and I want to keep it that way, but she really thought she was doing something bad 🙁
Third phrase was…. Tonight was I putting them to bed and they decided they wanted to do pillow fights. I was like no I don’t think so girls. It is nite nite! I said: “I’m getting tired of this” and Madisyn said…”Mommy you getting tired of what? crap? LOL LOL LOL. There goes another phrase she picked up from me. I’m telling you this girl comes up with the craziest stuff and always has me rolling even when I’m at my boiling point.
Even though I may stress, I wouldn’t trade my life for anything. My girls are my life, my pride and joy. Love you girlies!!
Wordless Wednesday
and this my friends is why I love having girls 21 months apart…. they are sisters for life who love each other so much!
What is the funny part about this pict is; they were taking a bath tonight and decided to empty a whole bottle of shampoo and make bubbles everywhere on the floor of the bathroom while mommy was grabbing a towel from kitchen table that I had folded. I saw what they did and OMG… I said alright girlies… I think its bedtime for two little girls. So they went to bed with their hair wet and mommy wasn’t happy with them so they knew they had each other to cuddle with ;).
Mom You Are Silly
Those words are what my four year old told me this afternoon hahaha!!
See I had told her all day we were going to go to story time at the library where it was animal day too. They were going to get to pet the animals, hold them etc. Well all run around this afternoon get ready and head on out the door with five minutes to spare! HMMM…. we get there and the parking lot doesn’t looked packed like I predicted it would be. So we walk in anyways thinking.. oh well at least we get to be a part of it. We walk over to the area and nobody is there. OK.. so what is going on. I look up at the paper and it is next Wednesday. OMG… I felt like such a dope. I had to explain to Madisyn and Lyndsee what was going on and why we were not seeing animals. Madisyn looked up to me and said mom you are silly!
PHEW… at least she thinks I am silly and not mad at me. Glad I passed that one ;).
Anyone else have mommy brain and show up somewhere when its actually the next week?
