Showing posts with label potty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potty. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Time Out is No Fun

Sitting in timeout. My kids fight all the time... every day.... over Legos and blocks. The kids aren't allowed to play with Steve's Legos unless he is home supervising them. Hailey has one bucket of pink Legos and whenever she wants to play with them so does Evan. She can't even hide under a blanket and play with them because Evan's Lego radar (mini Steve here) comes out and he is on her like glue. Good thing Evan has a birthday coming up in July. Yes, the long awaited time has come. We are going to start the Lego Duplo collection. That will solve that problem.

The block dilemma... what to do? We just have a small stash of mismatched blocks and both kids want them to build with... So, for my sake not the kids.... for some peace and quiet I am just going to buy some more blocks. Steve thinks I should wait until Evan's birthday in July. It sounds like a good plan until I remember that I have to listen to the squabbling every day and my ears can only take so much. Rather than listen to the the kids fight, and spend lots of time in timeout crying, it seems like we would be better off buying blocks and splitting those two up. This month's money is already accounted for so June 1st is block buying day. I can hardly wait.

She loves doing workbook activities.

Coloring and brushing his teeth... such a multi-tasker.

Nana got him the little airport a long time ago and he loves the ramp.


Outside eating home-made granola.


He is in the beginning phase of potty training. Believe me he is way more excited about it than I am. Sometimes he just want to sit on his little potty forever and refuses to come off.

Out for a stroll.

"This way."

Off we go.

Cucumber plants we planted in my parents' yard.


Oh look Hailey is hiding in the corn.

Cabbage.

These are just a few of the many things we planted.

Peas.

Ashcrafts always have lots and lots of tomatoes.


Flowers.

Carrots.

Herbs.


My little helper.

Everyone needs a lime popsicle by the end of the afternoon.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Busy Hailey

We have ivy growing on our house and Hailey loves to pick the leaves off.

She likes to pick out what clothes she wears.

Sometimes we go through several outfits in one day. She also likes to bring shoes to Steven and me when we are barefoot.

If I am not watching her she will pick all my flowers.

Every time we see flowers she has to smell them (if she doesn't pick them off first!)

Here she is sitting on her new potty. We decided to start potty training her after she started pooping in the bathtub a few days in a row. She does extremely well if I take her to the bathroom and have her try to go. On those days we can get through a whole day with no accidents. If I just leave in her panties hoping she will go by herself I end up washing 20 pairs of panties in a day. She is funny; we bought her a special jar of potty treats... skittles. She just isn't interested in them. I stopped giving them to her because she would just throw them in the toilet. She just wants praise instead. She thrives on being praised. Just goes to show you different things work for different people.

What a sad, little face.

Don't make me go to bed!

She is happiest outside exploring in other people's yards.

If we don't help her use silverware she just goes back to using her fingers.

She loves to play with her dolls.

We have had caterpillars hatching like crazy on on these saliva plants in our front yard. Hailey is super scared of them for some strange reason and hates it when we bring one close to her.