Thursday, May 19, 2016

potty training round 2

let me start by saying having two kiddos in diapers is no fun. I was so tired of changing so many diapers during the day that i decided it was time to potty train brooklynn. my first experience of potty training with parker wasn't the most fun, (is it ever fun?) and i was pretty sure we would never leave the house again in fear of him having an accident. but this time around i entered potty training with a different perspective. a we will still be able to leave our house, if accidents happen they happen, and one day she will be able to run in there and do her thing all by herself perspective. 

so day one. it was awful. awful, awful, awful, awful. way worse than parker's first day of potty training. day 2 came with the same results. awful. during those first 2 days she only peed on the potty ONE time. day 3 came around and i decided to see how the morning went. if by lunch time we were still having ZERO progress i was bagging the whole thing and putting her back in diapers. parker had preschool that day so we ran him to school and came home and sat on the potty for seriously almost 2 hours. i didn't let her off until she finally peed. after she FINALLY went, I'm not sure what exactly clicked, but something did and we ended day 3 completely accident free! whaaaat??!?! it was awesome and weird. but the following days came with the same results, accident free (in BOTH categories!) and she told me every time she had to go! (parker never did this, i always had to remind him to go.)  

and just like that, she's potty trained. I never worried about taking her out in public cause she always tells me when she needs to go, and we have conquered the public restrooms, as long as I cover the automatic flusher sensor, and she plugs her ears before we flush, ha! we still put a diaper on her at night and she has woken up dry a handful of times, but not consistent enough to keep her in underwear. but eh, I'm not worried. 




Sunday, May 1, 2016

Easter 2016

We found ourselves over in Eastern Idaho for Easter this year. Brian and Misty were blessing their new little guy that sunday, so we used it as a double excuse to head that way! we love traveling over there to see family!



 i am so happy our kids are great travelers!

 we gave kyle and carissa the game pie face for christmas, and we finally got to try playing it! 


 we did a few easter egg hunts. this one was done at the elementary school where kyle teaches. it was so fun to run around and play with all the balls in the gym. 

 jackson and joshua.... hoping these boys are good buddies the older they get!

 we did another egg hunt in grandma and grandpa rucks' backyard. 



 oh i just love these kids. i am so happy carissa is having a little girl to get some pink up in here!

 saturday night i got to go to the womens general conference session with my mom and sisters. oh how i wish so bad i lived close to them. 

 easter morning!

 handsome boys at church. 

 all the rucks' cousins after joshua's blessing 

happy easter from our two sweet boys and fiesty, SASSY little girl!