POTTY SUCCESS and a few pictures (not of the potty success!)

Some of you may be sick of seeing my super excited posts about Lexi finally going poopie on the potty but I cannot help but share my extreme excitement on the subject.  For those of you who know me know we have been struggling with the pooping in the potty issue since we started potty training.  Lexi took to going pee pee in the potty so fast and we hardly have any accidents these days.  Up until now she would come and ask for a diaper everytime she had to go poopie.   When we would try and get her on the potty to go it was like we were trying to make her eat vegetables!! She would scream and fight it.  Not wanting to make her anymore scared of the process then she already was we decided to let it go and just keep trying to get her to WANT to do it.  Nope not happening.  We recently found a wonderful new babysitter Emily who has been (I think) the master behind Lexi pooping in the potty.  Last week she did her first real poopie in the potty on her own over at Emily's house.  Would she use the potty at our house?  Uh DUH of course not.  We got the same results.  Crying and screaming and then just holding it in until she got a diaper.  Last week I even told Lexi that I was throwing away all the diapers and she would have to use the potty.  She was okay with this, until it came time to poopie.  She had me all figured out from the moment I told her she only got a diaper for nap and night time.  The smart girl waited until she got a diaper for nap or night time and then took her poopie to avoid using the toilet.  Flash forward to Tuesday after going poopie at Emily's (and rewarded with a yummy lollipop, which we tried as a reward at home to no result) I didn't think she would have to go again.  Lucky me after bath we are in her room and she walks up to me with a diaper she somehow found in the closet and told me she had to go poopie.  I did my usual, well why don't we try going on the potty like you do at Emily's so that you can get some lollipop.  "okay"  WHAT!!!!!  alright lets do this.  She walks into the bathroom and asks me to sit with her and read the monkey pop book.  Okay we have done this before and spent a good 20 minutes sitting in there with nothing happening only for her to get the diaper and go right away.  NOT THIS TIME!!  She went right away and she was so excited!!!  I was so excited and doing my happy dance.  The first thing she said was she wanted to show daddy so we cleaned up and went to get daddy.  She showed daddy and we faced timed MoMa to tell her the wonderful news.  Then she got her lollipop!!!  Today was even more glorious.  She came to me and said she needed to go poopie and walked straight into the bathroom and told me to leave and she would call me for a wipe.  Sure enough a few minutes later we had another successful poopie on the potty with more lollipop for a reward!!!  I think that we are finally making progress in the pooping in the potty area and it won't be long before we don't have to worry about diapers anymore.  The next thing would be the night and nap time potty training.  For all of you moms out there who have done that already, any advise for me!?!?!?  I would love for Lexi to be out of diapers before the baby gets here in February!!!!

I totally forgot to do her 2 year birthday photo with her one year/birth photo so it's a little late but done non-the-less

such a happy girl

having some posing fun today with big bear before going to costco

my beautiful lil lady :)

can't get enough of her

the job never ends

Monday and Tuesday I had pretty full days at work and they went by so fast and smooth!  I love my new office :)  I can only hope that it will work out for a long time to come.  Even though the commute to the office is pretty long, especially on the way home, the fact that I really enjoy the people I work with makes it all worth it.  Today is Wednesday and I can't help but dread the rest of the week.  I can not wait for the weather to cool down so that Lexi and I can have more to do. I miss our zoo trips with Becky and Hayden.   Playing at the park and taking walks seems like forever ago. 

Monday Lexi had her first successful poopie on the potty while at Emily's house.  We were all so excited for her and wondering if this would be the one that made her realize it wasn't so scary to poopie on the potty.  After I got her in the car I asked her "So are you going to go poopie on the potty at your house too?"  Her response "No, only at Emily's house"  I couldn't help but laugh and wonder how we would pull that one off.  The next day she didn't go potty at Emily's house and after dinner she asked for her diaper.   I tried and tried and bribed and bribed but she wouldn't budge, it was poopie in the diaper.  Fast forward to right now.  She asked for her diaper and after a few minutes of crying and whining I actually won the battle and she sat on the potty with no crying.  She sat and sat and had me sit by her and go outside and wait, then sit by her.  This went on for a good 15 minutes.  In the end there was no poopie but she gave it a valiant effort.  She sat there and she pushed and she tried.  So now we will just have to wait and see if she will try again on the potty when she has to go or if she will insist on the diaper.  Potty training has been going really well besides the poopie.  We hardly have any accidents, granted we aren't out in public that much these days.  There is still a long road ahead and I am just crossing my fingers that she is going poopie in the potty by the time baby Izzo #2 arrives.

So for those of you that have gone through this same problem and had success in the end, PLEASE let me know your secrets!!!!

The Forgotten Blog

Jaclyn so kindly reminded me the other day that it had been a very long time since I had blogged.  Looking back, it has been quite some time.  So lets start with this.....

It has been 5 months since my PRK laser eye surgery and I wouldn't change it for the world.  Waking up and not having to worry about getting contacts in my eyes before I can even see has been life changing. I am not being dramatic!!  It is AMAZING being able to see all the time, whenever I want.  Even thought the healing time was painful and rough and the first few months were a little blurry and contained a lot of light sensitivity I can know say that I am having hardly any after effects.  Every now and again I experience some dry eye but that is nothing new after being in contacts for so long.  So to those who are considering getting lasik or PRK eye surgery I say go for it.  What have you got to lose but your glasses and contacts!!!

Tomorrow I will be entering the 2nd trimester!!!  Yes people I will finally be 12 weeks pregnant and I can't wait to start feeling a little more normal again.  And by normal I really just mean not feeling like I am going to hurl every minute of everyday.  It is true what they say, the second time around everything happens faster.  By 5 weeks my wonderful belly button, that never fully recovered from being pregnant with Lexi, was already popped out.  TERRIFIC.  I have been sporting an undeniable belly bump for the last couple of weeks and feel like I look at least 6 months pregnant already.   This pregnancy has been just like the first except everything seems a little more intense.  The nausea is the same, all day everyday but worse in the afternoon and evenings but more prominent (thankful for the meds they provided me but they only provide relief for a good hour).  The back pain is already present and having me wonder just how awful it is going to get in the next 6 months.  Something new with this pregnancy is the sciatic pain. HOLY SMOKES.  Sleeping is few and far between.  I am up every couple of hours to pee or to re-situate because I become so uncomfortable.  OKAY OKAY enough with the complaining!!!  We are so excited to be expecting our 2nd baby Izzo in early February and no matter what trials and tribulations come our way we will make it through to the end!!!  So here is hoping to an EASIER and HAPPIER post partum experience!!!! 

I will try and keep up with the blog better from here on out.  If there are even any people out there eagerly awaiting the update on our lives!!!  Between work, school, and little Miss Lexi life is a bit on the hectic side to say the least.