This is just a follow up on how the boys are doing with their sleeping and potty.
It is really quite nice! I honestly was a bit concerned for a little bit there. I think the habit is formed.
We do our nightly routine: Dinner, Bath, Puzzle while we get dressed, read scriptures and pray, read a story of their choosing (sometimes one and sometimes one for each) and climb into bed.
They get in bed and unless they need to go potty, they stay in their bed. General Potty is still holding on through the night and finally comes in and gets me in the morning with a smile and we go into the potty together.
Sargent Potty wears a night time pull-up. and comes in a little more wet and less happy than General Potty. He is still happy, but just not AS happy. I think that once he grasps that he will be much happier in the morning.
While I was at convention, I don't know how they did with their potty, because no one updated the chart like I asked them too...
The boys have a seven day Thomas chart (not sure where my hubby found them) that I write out 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Poop, and an accident allowance square. They boys do a potty dance, wash their hands, and put their sticker on their chart. This is helping them learn what day it is and how to count. :) They count to 5 all by themselves now and even count to ten.
There are those parents who may decide to count up to as high as they can when they are potty training... mine will sit there all day to get out of going to bed some nights, so I have to count to thirty and they are done. They wash their hands and go to bed.
Back to bed :)
As long as the door is open they will stay in bed. I don't know what I did to make them hate the door being closed, but it has been their hate for a long time now. I had a warmer in their room that put off some really good light, but at the beginning of our sleep training the bulb burned out... I just never turned it back on. I am not sure if I should turn it on and if they would be OK with the door closed or not.
I think the key is that the door is open they know I am there and can hear me. I had to tell them that if they get out of bed I will close and lock the door. Like I said they stay in bed. :)
So where I thought there would be a problem teaching twins to obey and go to bed and sleep on their open, there is no problem. I highly recommend this sleep method.
They will lay in their beds and talk to each other. They ask questions and answer each other... It is really cute. I am so blessed by my babies!
The entire time I was away everyone who had anything to do with them told me how wonderfully behaved they are. I know I am blessed and could probably not be any more blessed than I am by them. We went to the carnival at convention and they just held on to the stroller that they wouldn't sit in, and danced their way around. I hope they never doubt my gratitude and adoration for them.
Enjoy right now.
Cara :)
Showing posts with label potty. Show all posts
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Toilet Seats and Washing Machines
We went to Walmart today to get a potty seat for the boys to put on the toilet. I cannot understand how they sell them... they are much too small. I can't see them fitting at all.
The boys are doing really well today with their potty. Sargent Potty has been wearing a diaper and letting me know when he needs to go. every other time it seems. this last time he held it all in and went on the toilet.
General Potty peed all over the seat at Arctic Circle last night... poor thing. He was really tired.
I got my LG washing machine purchased and it will be arriving on Thursday. I AM SO EXCITED YAHOO!!!! I did a lot of research and found a really good one I think. It had 4.9 stars and was very reasonably priced. We got it from Best Buy.
It is less expensive to go into the store and have them deliver it than to go online and try to do it. We saved $100 on the exact same machine by going into the store to purchase it. Plus you will always find nice sales people who will give you free delivery. :)
Enjoy right now!
Cara :)
The boys are doing really well today with their potty. Sargent Potty has been wearing a diaper and letting me know when he needs to go. every other time it seems. this last time he held it all in and went on the toilet.
General Potty peed all over the seat at Arctic Circle last night... poor thing. He was really tired.
I got my LG washing machine purchased and it will be arriving on Thursday. I AM SO EXCITED YAHOO!!!! I did a lot of research and found a really good one I think. It had 4.9 stars and was very reasonably priced. We got it from Best Buy.
It is less expensive to go into the store and have them deliver it than to go online and try to do it. We saved $100 on the exact same machine by going into the store to purchase it. Plus you will always find nice sales people who will give you free delivery. :)
Enjoy right now!
Cara :)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Poop! Poop! Poop!
Potty training is getting a tiny bit annoying to me. I decided that I never seem to find details that help me, so I am going to spill it all and just be blunt about everything. :) In hopes of helping someone like myself.
I am really trying hard to be super patient. Mothers of singletons have it hard. I cannot imagine how Jon and Kate did it with their SIX! Well we saw most of it on TV, but still.
I am trying really hard to hunker down and do this. The bad thing is that I started bribing the boys early on with potty treats... the only way Sargent Potty would have anything to do with it at all.
I really regret this now.
I am going to call my sons General Potty and Sargent Potty for a while.
General Potty is the type of personality who if Sargent Potty is doing something he gets kind of jealous (usually the observer who wants to do things perfectly before he tries them) and doesn't want Sargent Potty to show him up. I don't know if this is just in regards to potty right now or if he is tired of Sargent doing everything first...
Sargent Potty is a go getter with a personality that is out of this world. From birth he was a grunter and always making noise, and did everything months in advance and before General. Sargent is small... I hope he doesn't have little man syndrome! But like I said before he didn't want to have anything to do with the potty for a long time.
General is sleeping without peeing, but Sargent is not. Sargent will start to pee and stop it until he is on the potty. General does not... although today he started pooping in his pants and hurried to the toilet to finish. And on Sunday as tired as they both were and all the accidents they had General was holding it and jumping up and down to get to the potty while he was in the tub and then again a short time later. They are becoming aware. It is fantastic.
The last time we went to the zoo we got a book called "ZOO-POO". The boys LOVE this book and want to read it over and over and over again. Since they have really been more excited to go on the potty. When they are tired, they have WAY more accidents.
Today I decided that I would bribe them with something fun. We have a membership to the Hogle Zoo, so we go a lot. Since trying to sleep train we haven't been, but we generally do. They also have some new babies that arrived and will shortly arrive. The boys are very excited about this. I decided to tell them every day for a week that if they use the potty every time they can go to the zoo for as long as they want and do everything they want, which includes the train and carousel as many times as they want.
They got really excited and ran in to the potty. This might just work. I think it is why General decided to hold his poo in instead of finish in his pants as is his usual custom.
I think that I might be overloading them with change right now though... Sleep and Potty training at the same time. and they are already 2 and everything is already pretty rough on them to begin with as they learn and grow. Poor poopers. I sure do love them. I hope we all make it over the poop pile soon.
TTFN!
Cara :)
I am really trying hard to be super patient. Mothers of singletons have it hard. I cannot imagine how Jon and Kate did it with their SIX! Well we saw most of it on TV, but still.
I am trying really hard to hunker down and do this. The bad thing is that I started bribing the boys early on with potty treats... the only way Sargent Potty would have anything to do with it at all.
I really regret this now.
I am going to call my sons General Potty and Sargent Potty for a while.
General Potty is the type of personality who if Sargent Potty is doing something he gets kind of jealous (usually the observer who wants to do things perfectly before he tries them) and doesn't want Sargent Potty to show him up. I don't know if this is just in regards to potty right now or if he is tired of Sargent doing everything first...
Sargent Potty is a go getter with a personality that is out of this world. From birth he was a grunter and always making noise, and did everything months in advance and before General. Sargent is small... I hope he doesn't have little man syndrome! But like I said before he didn't want to have anything to do with the potty for a long time.
General is sleeping without peeing, but Sargent is not. Sargent will start to pee and stop it until he is on the potty. General does not... although today he started pooping in his pants and hurried to the toilet to finish. And on Sunday as tired as they both were and all the accidents they had General was holding it and jumping up and down to get to the potty while he was in the tub and then again a short time later. They are becoming aware. It is fantastic.
The last time we went to the zoo we got a book called "ZOO-POO". The boys LOVE this book and want to read it over and over and over again. Since they have really been more excited to go on the potty. When they are tired, they have WAY more accidents.
Today I decided that I would bribe them with something fun. We have a membership to the Hogle Zoo, so we go a lot. Since trying to sleep train we haven't been, but we generally do. They also have some new babies that arrived and will shortly arrive. The boys are very excited about this. I decided to tell them every day for a week that if they use the potty every time they can go to the zoo for as long as they want and do everything they want, which includes the train and carousel as many times as they want.
They got really excited and ran in to the potty. This might just work. I think it is why General decided to hold his poo in instead of finish in his pants as is his usual custom.
I think that I might be overloading them with change right now though... Sleep and Potty training at the same time. and they are already 2 and everything is already pretty rough on them to begin with as they learn and grow. Poor poopers. I sure do love them. I hope we all make it over the poop pile soon.
TTFN!
Cara :)
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Nap Time
Nap time is getting much nicer here in our house and the boys are getting better at recognizing that it is nap time.
I love it that they are finally talking... and talking alot. The way they pronounce things is so stinking cute to me. "nap time" "sleep time" "Elmo potty" So Cute!! I wish you could hear it!
I have had a dilemma since we conceived the boys, it seems that pertinent information that I really need to find specifically for twins is never available or accessible.
I started using Dana Obleman's Sleep Sense (http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/) I really am happy with it... other than there is nothing available for twins who share the same room. It is working, just not as effectively as I am sure it works with a singleton.even older or younger siblings sharing a room isn't applicable.
When one of them is not listening and I leave the other starts screaming and is "punished" for what the other one did... not a very fair thing to have to do.
Nap times seems to be the easier time to get them to rest than bedtime. They store up and poop at 9:00 at night... did I mention that I am potty training too? sleep and potty train at the same time. and you never know when they really need to use the potty or if they are just trying to get out of sleeping... they are good at that. especially when you are being tag teamed. :)
So I am going to do my best to share my positive experiences in regards to twins and find the information that we need.
Cara
I love it that they are finally talking... and talking alot. The way they pronounce things is so stinking cute to me. "nap time" "sleep time" "Elmo potty" So Cute!! I wish you could hear it!
I have had a dilemma since we conceived the boys, it seems that pertinent information that I really need to find specifically for twins is never available or accessible.
I started using Dana Obleman's Sleep Sense (http://www.sleepsense.net/blog/) I really am happy with it... other than there is nothing available for twins who share the same room. It is working, just not as effectively as I am sure it works with a singleton.even older or younger siblings sharing a room isn't applicable.
When one of them is not listening and I leave the other starts screaming and is "punished" for what the other one did... not a very fair thing to have to do.
Nap times seems to be the easier time to get them to rest than bedtime. They store up and poop at 9:00 at night... did I mention that I am potty training too? sleep and potty train at the same time. and you never know when they really need to use the potty or if they are just trying to get out of sleeping... they are good at that. especially when you are being tag teamed. :)
So I am going to do my best to share my positive experiences in regards to twins and find the information that we need.
Cara
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