No more diapers.

The past couple weeks Aria has been great about waking up and asking to go potty...at 3AM or 5AM or even 7AM! I've been noticing dry diapers coming off in the morning too. Saturday night, Aria begged us not to put a diaper on her for bed and we complied. She's done great the past two nights. I don't mind waking up with her in the middle of the night to use the potty because she goes right back to sleep and I'm usually up around the same time using it too now! I find it a little funny that my 6mo pregnant bladder = my 2.5yr old bladder, haha. I assume as the weeks go on I should get worse and hopefully she'll get better about holding it longer through the night :-)

not a hamburger, but a...

third leg? yep, that's what the ultrasound techs told us about Aria (hamburger=vagina), and this one (third leg=penis). it's a boy! though I would have preferred they use the actual names, considering we are adults not children. I mean come on - for Aria's ultrasound, the woman told us she didn't see a turtle! I mean. come. on. these terms are stupid jokes, and makes me feel like they're trying to create a friendly atmosphere and all it really does is make an awkward moment for me where i'm not sure if they're talking down to me or not. and then i just feel sorry for them that they are not comfortable enough with the human body to say the correct terms in front of other people.

/rant off

IT'S A BOY!

on a side note, if anyone wants a cool white VW GTI, let me know! (this is a just joke, I have no idea where I could get a free one - in my garage? YEAH RIGHT)

Potty Update

Aria is really starting to get it. I picked her up from school today and she was wearing the same clothes she put on this morning! Last week she did fine at home, but had at least 3 wardrobe changes each of the 4 days at school last week. So I was prepared for the worst today...

It started out with the weekend where she did excellent (no accidents) and even ended Sunday with a #2 in the potty! When I picked her up today they told me that she held it in all morning and then after her nap she asked to use the potty. This is HUGE! I'm so proud of her. Even at home there was some improvement today too. Usually we ask her constantly if she has to go, but we started to back off and she told us she had to use the potty (with no prompts from us).

Kevin said tonight that she asked to wear undies to bed. He gently talked to her about not rushing into it and it would be soon to come. I definitely agree, I'm not ready to change a wet bed in the middle of the night. She has woken up a couple time in the last week to use the potty around midnight, but we want a good week or so of dry diapers until we go totally diaperless.

So there's the update...we're on the right track now after a hard week last week. We are definitely PROUD parents :-)

Don't eat your broccoli!

Lately Aria's been a little pickier than usual about eating veggies. It never used to be an issue. Tonight after gobbling up her chicken parmesan, noodles and even some friendship bread her broccoli remained on her plate. I don't know what came over me, but I decided to tell her "Aria, don't eat that broccoli!" What does she do? Without question, she put that broccoli in her mouth and gobbled that up too! Kevin joined in and told her not to eat the other ones...and she ate those too! She is silly, I love how she caught on to our "game" and giggled the whole time she went along with it. The funniest things work with her. She likes to keep us on our toes!

On the potty training front...I was a little down today because it's a little worrisome that she's having so much trouble getting the hang of using the potty at school. But on a high note, tonight Aria wanted out of her bath because she had to use the potty. She sat on it, got a little squirmy and then wanted off. That was my cue that she HAD TO GO (if you know what I mean). It took a little encouragement and an M&M to keep her seated. About 15 seconds later, we had success! She was so excited and I was too!

This potty training thing has really opened my eyes about parenting. I had no idea how it would go. I'd read a little and listened to others' stories, somehow I missed the following:

• Kids might have issues using any other potty then their own at home.
• Apparently the feeling of having to #2 will scare them so much they won't want to sit on the potty...even if they have undies on!
• Some kids will hold and hold it because they don't want to use the potty. We're talkin 6 hrs people!

Aria has really educated me as a parent. I had no idea how complicated potty training can be!

of course it'll take a while

Well yesterday didn't go too well. she held it in until after her nap. then had two accidents at school, and one with Dana at the store. She did use the potty at home twice last night, and again this morning before we left for school. It's hard to realize that things like this just take time. Aria's been so good about other transitions (like sleeping through the night, getting rid of her bottles and pacifier, going to daycare, and moving to a big girl bed) that we've taken for granted the time and work involved in her getting through this one.

Every day is a step in the right direction. She has accidents at school mostly. :-)

PS: Where's that Christmas post?

we shall see...

Aria wore undies all weekend—with only a couple of accidents. Today she was a little reluctant to go to school in her undies, but I was able to convince her that the new routine of going potty before going to school was part of being a big girl/big sister. We know she'll do just fine at school, her best friend there has been using the potty for a couple of weeks now.

I was also able to put her hair in pigtails—quite an accomplishment for me. The part wasn't exactly straight, but it's a start!


and don't forget to check out the videos below!

Nursery Rhymes

Recently Aria has been reciting nursery rhymes along with her many songs she sings. We have a book of them we read often. The cutest part is that we hadn't read them recently and she started to recite them off the top of her head one night during dinner. Last night we caught her on video to share.

PS My computer is fixed! Thanks Goofydaddy! Soon I will be working on the past missing posts (Christmas, for example).