Progress Report

I bet you are dying to know about our potty adventures, right? :D Well it is going great! Freddy totally has peeing in the potty down. He has about a 75% success rate with pooping in the potty. I don't think he quite recognizes the feeling soon enough, but for less than a week I say he is awesome! He was pretty excited to try out the bathrooms at the Diner and at Lucy's school. :)

I highly recommend the book and website "Oh Crap! Potty Training." The biggest take away I got from the book was to believe in and trust your child. If you have faith that they can do something, chances are good they will have faith in themselves and be able to do it. This is something that can easily be forgotten when you are in the midst of worrying about a new challenge your child is taking on. I will be chanting this to myself on Friday as we leave, with no diaper, on an almost two hour car ride to visit my parents for the weekend.

In other news, some of us are recovering from our first cold of the school year. Unfortunately some of us are just coming down with it. Dave is pretty much over it, and Lucy and Henry are on the "still runny nose but feeling better" stage. I am in the middle of the "sore throat and headache" stage, while Freddy is in the "just starting to get it grumpy" stage. His refusing to take a nap the last couple of days isn't helping his mood either.

Other than that I am trying to get organized and do a good fall cleaning, but progress is slow. I have a plan to rearrange some shelves and I got some stuff into bins to go to the basement, so I now I have to wait for Dave's help. I am also trying to get a jump start on the holidays so I have got some lists and even a project or two going- in my head! hahaha! Yes I am a bit sleep deprived today why do you ask? ;D