Potty Party Day

As crazy as it sounds I threw a Beach themed Potty Party just for Ashley.  The idea came from a book called "Potty Train Your Child in One Day" After the months it took with Rachel, Mike and I were willing to give it a try.  The premise of the Potty Party is that when kids hear party they are excited and want to participate and know that something is going to be fun. This puts out anything negative thoughts. With the theme set, Mike took a day off of work to take Rachel out for the day so it would be just Ashley and I. I choose a beach theme and we decorated.

We used paint drop cloths as sand, which were amazing because they don't absorb liquid.  We had another one leading to the bathroom past a concession stand. The pool was part of the ocean with a beach front entrance of course and filled with blue balloons for water.

The first half of the morning they get a baby doll that they get to train to be a big girl and go potty. She named her doll "Aubrey" and Aubrey did everything with us. 

 Aubrey is supposed to have 7-8 wet accidents and 1-2 poopy accidents.  I used goobers as poo and when Ashley found it she was mortified I wish I had the camera for that face. To make it even better I had set the dirty diaper aside to take care of later, but Duchess beat me to it. She ate it! 

Ashley has been so excited to potty train that she didn't want to wait.  When Aubrey used the potty the first time Ashley wanted to sit too and didn't want her diaper back on.  So our potty party sped up and the doll slowly got left behind. The key to success according to the author of the book is get them to drink as much as possible because the more they drink the more chances you get to go to the bathroom. We drank smoothies, juice, soda, had jello, and popsicles. 

Our big girl used the potty.  To keep her on the potty for a longer time we had plenty of books; beach themed and potty themed.  The favorites were "Everyone Poops" and "The Princess and the Potty". We played guess which ocean animal I am, painted nails with glow in the dark nail polish, blew bubbles at each other and even raced to see who could go first. 

She needed some outside time and went out to ride her scooter and who could resist taking a couple shots of her outside in panties? Obviously, not I. This was towards the end of the day. And daddy was bringing home McNuggets at Ashley's request.

I made cupcakes aren't they cute?  Thank you Sis Morris for teaching the beehives to make these!

but first we had to sing "Happy Potty Day". Yeah I know sounds crazy but I'll give you the results at the end.

She got potty day presents from Rachel and Daddy. Big girl earrings and panties.

We finished the party by throwing away all the diapers! Ashley is a big girl now.

The results:

Potty Party Day- we went through 4 pairs of panties. 2 floor accidents, 2 just wet, stayed dry all night

Day 2- down to 2 panties 1 floor accident (while a friend was over) 1 just wet, stayed dry all night

Day 3- No accidents, stayed dry all night

Day 4- No accidents (went to church for an hour), stayed dry all night

Day 5- no accidents (ran errands, including library), wet the bed

Day 6- No accidents (spent morning at Grandma's, birthday party, frineds house after party), stayed dry all night

Overall:

Huge Success

I don't have to tell her to go, she knows she needs to go and goes by herself and hollers if she needs help. 

Apple Pine

A couple weeks ago we're standing in the kitchen and Ashley asked if she could eat and apple pie.
 "We don't have any apple pie," thinking that it sounded good to me too.
 "Yes we do apple pine right there!" pointing to the pineapple.
"You mean pineapple, sure you can have some."
"Thank you for my apple pine."

I came home from the grocery store yesterday morning. As I was putting away the food Ashley got really excited and started jumping and shouting, "Oh thank you mom! oh thank you for getting an apple pine" I know by now that apple pine is pineapple and I find it super cute but I'm a mom that believes in correcting their children so other people know what they are talking about. Rachel has obviously picked up on this and corrected her, "It's pineapple, Ashley." "Yeah, apple pine, I said it right."

Oh well... ham was pink meat in my house growing up for as long as I can remember. I guess pineapple can be apple pine.

Then this morning she was showing me what was in her purse: a phone and paper tissue.  Yep it was tissue paper!

naptime

An hour into naptime Ashley calls for yelling, "I need to wash my hands!" I went into her room and looked at her hands and didn't see anything. Then I noticed the open container of Aquaphor.  Then I noticed how much was gone with small finger ditches in it. I started looking around to figure out where it all went.  After not seeing anything I dared to ask. "Ashley what were you doing?" "Painting" "Painting where?" I relplied trying to keep from freaking out when really I'm thinking Painting! Oh this is going to fun cleaning. Ashley points to the side of her dresser.  After cleaning it up I dared ask, "anywhere else?" "Over here (pointing to the front of the dresser, and here (the only other available side), and on Troy (her bear), and here (the Lazy boy!)

Well it could have been worse, it could have been actual fingerpaint. At least aquaphor is clear unscented petroleum jelly based lotion and after examining the damage it was too bad.  Troy just has his nose and eyes done- the non-hairy part so that was easily wipeable. The dresser is now shiny clean, and as for the chair I couldn't find anything!

Letter Review

Since we've been doing letters everyday for weeks now I'm having to get creative on different activities besides memory and go fish. For our review I put our letter magnets in a bowl of water and had Ashley pull out a letter from the water and run it to the matching letter from our letter mat.Rachel wanted a turn and after Rachel, Ashley went again.

Letter L

L is for llama

Letter K

A letter K activity we did was kick the tower with the letter K. This turned into kick over the k's and then kick them all. Even Rachel had to take a turn or two.

Our Comedian

Ashley is full of personality and lately we've noticed how she will intentionally do something in hopes of making us laugh. Unfortunately I haven't been that great about keeping up with recording them but here's one that happened this afternoon while at a friends house.

She was outside and came to the open sliding door to tell me she was poopy. (yes potty training is coming soon) I told her okay come in so I can change her. I look back to see why she's not coming in while I dug around for a diaper in my purse. She sees me looking and pushes her face and body against the glass of the door and says, "I can't get in!"