Big Changes

So Grant is finally potty trained and is in a big boy bed. There are a few things that just kicked these things into gear for me. First of all he kept taking off his pull up and wishing he could go potty instead of in his pull up and therefore peed in his bed. And when he was sick a few weeks ago he kept asking to go to bed instead of making him. For a while I knew if I worked hard enough at it Grant would be potty trained and in a big boy bed. But I'm lazy sometimes and I didn't want to be woken up all night by Grant and Carly and clean up pee from all the accidents. Grant was definitely all the way ready for both events to change in his life. It was a rough start for potty training. He was in the groove of getting 1 small treat for peeing in the potty and 2 for pooing. Also he was wearing pull ups all day and night. So what I did is I found a potty chart I liked online and laminated it with my clear tape. Then made little velcro stickers so that we could just reuse them all the time. He was quite upset when I first didn't allow him a treat every time he went potty but just stickers and he had to wear his underwear no matter what. Every hour I made him sit on the potty. After a week of 2 stickers and after 5 he got a treat and a video to watch I went down to 1 sticker and I stopped telling him to go potty every hour. He has now gone when he needed to with out me helping him and he accepts the 1 sticker per any potty time. He hasn't had an accident in a few days now! Victory! The thing is he was poo potty trained but never went pee because he could tolerate pee in his pull up while playing, I guess just not in the night.

The big boy bed. He has one, I mentioned in the summer, that we got one for him.  Its a race car. He loves it. But there were some other things I had to put in place first. I got a digital plug in timer at Lowe's for $10 and plugged his lamp into it. And that now serves as his alarm clock. So the bed time rule is he can leave his room to go potty anytime he wants but for anything else he has to wait until his lamp turns on at 8am. So he basically comes out to go potty right after putting him to bed and then like clockwork, every morning at like 7:45am he goes pee and poo and back to his room until his lamp turns on. The first two nights of that he came out of his room early to play and had a fit about going back but since then he goes potty by himself unless he doesn't feel confident in wiping and we don't wake up in the night for him unless he wakes up crying from a dream or not being able to find his water. Conveniently it has only happened at the exact time Carly wakes up to be fed and Perry has been awesome enough to take care of him.

Carly is growing chunky and we have her 6 month appointment  in a couple weeks. We have learned she loves sweet potato, carrots, avocados, bananas, oatmeal, prunes,  and does not like rice cereal or squash. She has an allergic reaction to sweet potato unfortunately. And gets constipated so easily. We are still waiting for her constipation to go away, hence the prunes she loves. She learned to roll from her back to her belly a few days ago and Grant is so proud of her when she rolls over. She still would rather be held or played with rather than watching me do house work but it has to be done. Currently she is fighting the flu. She puked a bunch yesterday and I'm hoping that part is over. And I'm hoping she sleeps a lot today as well to fight it off. She has a regular napping schedule, one nap between 9-10 for 45 min to 2 and a half hours, one that starts between 12-2 and one that is between 3-5 depending on the length of the naps and what times she wakes up. The length of the nap depends on if the neighbors dog barks and wakes her or if she gets un-swaddled and scratches herself. She just loves to be swaddled. I'm not sure when I will kick the habit. Some babies need a pacifier, she just needs to be swaddled. I suppose I will swaddle her until about 9 months, when they say to stop indefinitely. After she naps she moves around so much she gets un-swaddled anyway so I don't think it limits her motor development at all. Plus it takes some muscles to get loose from that strait jacket! She is still very happy and loves to smile and gurgle.