Two Poo Poos

Audrey disappeared upstairs and then came half way down the stairs and yelled "Daddddd! Daaaaaaddd!" we came upstairs and she had peed and pooped in the potty! Less than half an hour later Zoey was outside doing a potty dance I had her come inside and sat her on the potty and booooom! Poopoo in the potty!

Tickles, Giggles & the Moon

Audrey has been fascinated by the moon.  Earlier this week Sue said she got her stool and pointed up to the sky so she could stand on it and be 6 inches closer to the moon.  Tonight Dave and the girls lay in the backyard and enjoyed moon gazing while I was at the gym.

I was glad to be home for stories and bedtime. The girls and I read some new books, including a book entirely in German about an owl stealing an alarm clock.  I don't know anything in German except how to count to ten,  gesundheit and Auf Wiedersehen so I just made the story up. One part of the story cracked Zoey up.  Her laughter was so joyful I kept the joke going. 

They both take a side when we read and this night was like others.  Tonight Audrey was on my right and to the right if her was the water.  Zoey had been rolling around and was on her tummy and she looks up to Audrey and says,  "please."  (or peeaas is more accurate) she was asking her sister for the water to Audrey's right! This is awesome! They are asking each other for things! 

After another book I tucked them in, although they were not expressing being tired.. I was tired and hungry!  It was almost 9pm but they are still adjusting to the time change (they went to bed at 8:30 or so the night before).  Zoey pulled me down to hug her and she HUGGED me so tightly.  It is the best feeling in the world. (The other morning she also gave me Eskimo kisses which she also gave me at bedtime tonight.(I'm publishing this a day late) I am so elated by these sweet signs of affection.  

I went downstairs and started cutting up an apple and some cheese all the while watching them with the Babycam.  At one point Audrey was sitting on the floor reading while Zoey played with her hair. 

Later they were hiding under pillows and hiding each other's lovies and giggling. Then they were tickling each other and giggling!

I heard some crying and I walked upstairs, cheese, knife and phone (with Babycam on) in hand and watched to see if I needed to intervene. Next thing I know Audrey is heels over head wedged between two pillows crying and trying to get herself back upright, unsuccessfully, by pushing up on the side of the bookshelf.  It was sad and hysterical.  I set everything down on the floor in the hall and ran in to help her out.  

In the last week I've seen them turn a corner on friendship and playing together. I am so grateful to see them playing as sisters and friends.

Poop Everywhere But the Potty

Sue: so Audrey had a little accident in her pants, while we were outside. She was upset, I asked if she had to go potty and she said yes. I had the potty outside so she sat on it... well she had already done a solid #2. I let her know over and over that it was okay. So we took poo upstairs, washed hands and Audrey went downstairs, as I came to go downstairs she presented me with another present.

When I got home from work I met the family out back.  Audrey was sitting on a blanket and ran to greet me. The girls were running around bottomless and I immediately smelled poop. Checked, yup,  Audrey had poop on her but where was it? Hmmm, woop,  there it is! Found it on the patio.  We got wet wipes and the hose. Audrey tried to pick up the log with a wet wipe.  It broke.  So I assisted.  I wiped up Audrey and then I had Audrey try and clean up the patio.

Zoey started to pee and then Audrey so we worked on trying to pee in the grass. (knowing how to pop a squat is a life skill!)

We'll, they'd peed on themselves so I squinted them with the house.  This, of course, was hilarious but short lived as it is March at 6pm and it's not THAT warm out yet so next stop was a warm bath.

Adventures in potty training! 

Wheels on the Bus

Today was great for all the potty utilizing but it was also amazing because up until now the only phrases that were really spoken by the girls were Stop It and...hmmm, maybe just Stop it.

But tonight Audrey heard a song on the radio that she REALLY wanted to hear again. A very cute version of Baa Baa Black Sheep by Caspar Babypants (yes, Caspar Babypants).This version has more numbers and these girls are totally digging numbers...I can't imagine where they get that from. She can be quite insistent so I found it on Amazon Prime and downloaded it and she was pleased and she and Zoey danced around the house putting the fingers up into different versions of numbers.

Following that song was a prior downloaded version of Wheels on the Bus. These girls LOVE Wheels on the Bus. Also another cute version of a classic song where not only do they run through the usual verses but then animals begin showing up on the bus. Not surprisingly, Zoey loves the monkeys. OOO OOO OOO OOO OOO she says when the song ends. So I play it again. And then Baa Baa Black Sheep.  Zoey requests more OOO OOO OOO  (including hand gestures for Wheels on the Bus). AND THEN SHE SAYS WHEELS ON THE BUS.

OMG. 

I understood an entire phrase that was something she desired!

Peeing on the potty! Entire phrases for songs they want to hear!

TODAY WAS A RED LETTER DAY! 

Well on Our Way to NO MORE DIAPERS!

This morning Audrey went into my bathroom to pee on my potty. No stool. Just had me put her up on the potty and BAM! PEEPEE!

I came home from work and took their diapers off and put them into dresses so they could run around bare bottomed outside. Ya know, because we live in North Carolina and it's 78 degrees in March. The girls had fun playing in the chicken pen and peering in the coop and Zoey even got to "hold" Mabel. 

Audrey starts pointing between her legs. I ask her if she needs to go potty. She says yes, so I pick her up and head up to the house. Zoey follows. We get there and I start to take of Audrey's shoes I explain that we have to take off her shoes because they have poop on the bottom. This is a similar conversation I had earlier in the evening when I was changing to go outside and she had gone down to the basement and brought up MY outdoor shoes (that also have poop on the bottom). The conversation was only met with hysterical crying as all conversations do with Audrey right now when she thinks she wants something different than what I am doing. 

And you can't just take off one pair of shoes. Zoey too wants to come in so I get Audrey's shoes off and she sits in the door frame and cries while I chase after Zoey who is walking through the house in her poop shoes. 

I return to Audrey and ask her if she still wants to go potty. She says yes, so she gets up and goes upstairs and BAM! PEE PEE IN THE POTTY AGAIN!

Not only is Audrey peepeeing in the potty, she is capable of knowing she needs to do it, having a hissy fit, and STILL MAKING IT TO THE POTTY!

It was reported that there were pee pees in the potty by both girls with Jennifer and Sue today too!

AND Zoey also peed on the potty before bath time and Audrey again before bed!

WOOHOO! We are well on our way to NO MORE DIAPERS!

A Day Worth Noting

The last few days have been so difficult. The whining, my god the whining. So getting home after a 10 hour day...this was worth nothing and remembering.

I began opening the door and Audrey opened it the rest of the way. Audrey let me in and then shut the door behind me. She then hugged me. She then began unzipping my boots, stopped, looked under the shoe hutch for slip on shoes, returned, unzipped my boots some more and helped me take my boots off and slipped on the house shoes. 

We have just begun letting the 2.5 year olds use our instruments. Audrey had the ukulele and Zoey was strumming on the mandolin, while singing E-I-E-I-O.  And pooping.

After we put the girls to bed Zoey found the Star Wars book with stickers in it.  I heard crying from the shower.  Dave said she had gotten the stickers out and was sticking them all over arm. She was crying because she was trying to get them off and it hurt. And because she couldn't get a sticker to stick to her finger like a band-aid.

Zoey is a Cat

She loves to get in every box or basket.

She is always under foot.

She naps in the sun.

She wants in then out then in then out.