Milk and Cookies

Derek went out for milk one night this week and came home with

Milk, cookies, a movie

and a new dishwasher!

I have been washing dishes by hand since we moved in here, there was almost always a pile of dishes on the counter...either they we dirty or cleaned and drying.

Ahhhh

It feels so great to have a clear counter top again.

Let me just say, I will be sending him out to run errands more often. Maybe next time he will bring home a painter.

Thanks babe.

It's Official

I'm a Soccer Mom.

Day 3

Last night Cooper woke up at 1:30 shouting "Mommy I going potty" so I jumped up and he had started wetting the bed but stopped and finished in the toilet. I think that is progress.

I think tonight I will wake him before I go to sleep to see if I can get one more trip to the bathroom out of him. I would love a dry night!

Today went great! Not one accident. Amazing. I haven't really left the house now for 3 days and I still feel a little nervous about that next step. He will not go in the big toilet, only his little potty chair. Any tips out there to help with this one? He did try standing and peeing in the regular toilet tonight and did well, but he's still a little short for that to work great, especially out where toilets are higher. Hmmm, not sure what to do about this one.

Our final tallies at the end of day 3 are...

Potty in the toilet- 14
Accidents in the undies- 0
Nap- dry
Poops-1

Hurray! He's got it.

Day 2

We had kind of a rough night last night. I heard Cooper starting to stir around 10 (and in our limited experience we have learned that when a kid wakes in the night, they need to potty) so I got him and took him to the potty but that made him so mad. I gave up and took him back to bed and just moments later he was wet.

So we changed sheets and undies and put him back to bed. He woke up about an hour later screaming for a drink a water this time he did go potty and woke up an hour later screaming again for some water. It was hard not to let him have any. Poor kid.
Last night was awful. I'm really glad that Derek was home last night to help. Tonight it is all me. I hope it goes better.

But other than a hard night he has been doing great. He woke up dry and went right to the potty. He was very excited that he had "peed a circle" (filled up the little tray all the way around). We have had one accident today so far {it is nap time again} and another good poo.
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The rest of the day went well. We had one more accident. I have realized that the accidents happen when I'm not close by him (that's all my fault) and he is outside. This one I was talking to Corbin about his school day. He has started to shout "I going potty" all by himself. But I still have to remind him to get up and run to the bathroom.

So the tally is in:
Potty in the toilet- 10 times
Accidents in the undies- 2
Nap- Dry
Poops-1

Hoping tomorrow will be even better.

Day 1

It is nap time at the moment so I thought I would steal a moment and get this post started.

Things are going pretty well so far. Cooper is really happy in his new undies and what a cute little un-diapered bum he has.

So far no messes to clean up. He has has a couple accidents but he was out side and just wet the undies.

Right now I'm just crossing my fingers that he will wake up dry from his nap....

Fast forward now to evening.

The boys have been asleep for a couple hours. Cooper really did a great job today.

Here are the final numbers:

potty in the toilet-9 times,

accidents in the undies- 3,

nap-woke up dry,

poops- 1

I am hoping for the best tonight. I could really use a good nights rest. Following an almost 3year old around all day is a lot of work. He did pee twice before bed which is perfect...but he also talked me into a swallow or two of water in bed...I may be paying for that one.

More tomorrow

Let the potty training begin!

So we are gearing up over here to potty train Cooper. I picked up the potty chair Saturday. Have a supply of new undies, lots of stickers, popsicles, little candies, toys and carpet cleaner.

Today (Sunday) Cooper was so excited about the whole idea that when I got him out of bed this morning he had already taken his diaper off (the bed was soaking wet of course) and had put his jammie bottoms back on. He went potty in the potty chair twice on his own {well with a little help from his experienced big brother} One of those times he even got out of the shower to go potty. We had to practically tie him down to get a diaper on him before we left for church.

So I have high hopes for the next few days. We officially begin Monday morning after breakfast. So if I don't answer the phone it's because I'm busy following a freshly undied Cooper around. I will be posting his progress, so if you don't like poop talk look out!

Sweet Cooper

I just need to get a few things down in writing before I forget them.

On Easter I was putting Cooper down for a nap and he was upset, he was having fun and didn't want to stop for a rest. So he was crying and complaining as I laid him down so I started to list all the fun things he had already done that morning- Easter bunny, playing with his brother, Grandma and Grandpa came over for breakfast, watching conference- he started to cheer up and add to the list. Now he was happy and ready to sleep. As I walked out of the room he called to me and said "mommy tanks for hewping me tink of happy tings we did today. I happy now". Melt my heart, what a sweet kid.

Just now as Cooper is laying down for bed he called me in to his room. He wanted me to take his lambie. Apparently Lambie was hitting him so he didn't want him in his bed. So I had lambie whisper into my ear that he was sorry and he wanted to give Cooper a hug. So cooper accepted lambies apology and hugged him tight under the blankets and as I walked out I heard him say to his little stuffed lamb "I's otay wambie, I wuv oo. I not hit you eever, otay otay"

I'm telling you this kid says the sweetest things. {I know there are a few more that I wanted to get down, but I can't think of them now. I may be adding to this post later if they come back to me.}