inching along...

I was going to put a picture up of those gross green inch worms that are everywhere right now (mainly in my back yard) but I couldn't even bear to look at a picture of those nasty little things!

I want them to go away!

They are all over the place. I was pulling them out of the kids hair yesterday, gag!

I have a serious aversion to anything that semi- slithers...

snakes - deathly terrified of them!

worms- I cringe

inch worms- for some reason these little guys just gross me the hell out!

BLAH!!!!!

I can't even talk about it anymore....

in other better and exciting news....

I'm pretty we sure we have an almost, semi-potty trained big girl!!!!!!!

She's peeing in the potty every time, and hasn't had a single accident in 3 days!

HOWEVER

We haven't dealt with the #2 issue yet. She's holding it in, like she did before when we first started this process. So, I think today is the day when it's going to have to come out!

hopefully it will come out in the potty and not in her underwear.

Have you ever tried to clean that up in a toddler's underwear? Hardest task EVER!

Sorry I'm talking about #2 on the blog, but this IS a mom blog, so I guess that kind of comes with the territory....right?

I'll have better shit to talk about next post!

No pun intended :)

Every girl needs pink shoes....

I know every parent says this, but my kid really is never going to be potty -trained!!!

The big girl will be 3 in May, and we are not even close to using the potty. She just won't do it. She loves big girl underwear, but when she has to "go" she asks for a diaper, and if I don't put one on her she holds "it", it got to the point where she actually backed herself up so bad, we had to give her a laxative. So, the Dr. said don't push the potty-training at that point, so we haven't.

But now, I feel like she's ready. She wakes up dry, goes long periods with out being wet, and she hides when she goes #2, soooo she definitely knows when she's "going".

She just won't sit on the potty. I'm starting to freak, because kids that are way younger than her are potty-trained. I keep telling myself, she'll do it when she's ready, but I'm starting to wonder if her being "ready" is ever going to happen.

So, I thought I'd nudge her along in the process. I went to Target and stocked up on goodies in the dollar section and put together this bad boy....

A potty basket!!!!! I told her if she got pee pee or poo poo in the potty, then she got to pick a present from the potty basket....I mean, this thing is sweet, what kid wouldn't love this!?!?!

I also got her a potty watch...

You can set it to go off every 30, 60, or 90 min. to remind your child it's time to sit on the potty. It's a good idea in theory. She loved the watch, but still refuses to sit on the potty, and she took one look at the basket and said

"That's so pretty mommy, but I'm not using potty"

Well, then.

You can get a potty watch here. I think it will be more useful once she's actually "using" the potty.

In other news, my SIL is in town visiting with her baby! It's so much fun when they come to town. Her daughter is only a week older than the twins, so it's always a good time seeing all the cousins play and interact with each other!

We had a girls day, and the kids had a blast!

We also got matching pink sparkly TOMS for all the girls :) Juliette calls them her "pink sparkly princess shoes"

And really, doesn't every girl need pink shoes ???

YES, yes they do!!!!