Potty Fairy and Snow Day

Let me just say that first off Piper is totally kicking butt with potty training. She hasn't had one accident in over a week. She's totally trained baby! She even became a pro and was going poops with no drama mama. However, the potty fairy came on Friday night and took away her toilet chair and left her with a present. She was very excited about the present and was fine about  not having her chair. She has been using it to go potty great. She is scared to go poo on the big toilet. I don't blame her. It's scary! So she is holding it in right now as we speak. I'm hoping that when she gets to a desperate point that she uses the toilet and won't be so scared and after that it will be all good. I sure hope so! She loves to eat frozen blueberries and those are a pretty good source of fiber. I having been feeding her "pooberries" (as I like to refer to them) everyday. Hopefully that will help. I'll keep you posted. (Actually she already had her first successful poo on the big toilet). (I often have to take breaks while blogging and she did it). Sweet Sauce! Happy dance, happy dance!

On Monday I slipped away for about an hour in the afternoon and did a little shopping. I went to some thrift stores and saw an old gross rocking chair. I looked at it and thought just maybe I could reupholster it. This is the type of project I've wanted to try for years but I've been a little chicken and I hadn't really found the right chair. Well I thought this rocking chair had a lot of potential so I decided to buy it. I then went straight to the Home Fabrics store and found the perfect fabric. I took it home and started spray painting the wood immediately. I was still apprehensive about actually putting the fabric on. Scott found a you tube video but it had 10, 8 minute chapters. I watched quite a bit and learned a few helpful things. Then I decided to just go for it. It cut out the first square piece and within 5 minutes I had already over cut and needed to start over. I decided to just have a "make it work" moment because I knew that if I cut a new piece of fabric that I would likely mess up again real quick anyway. So I just tucked and pulled and pieced the fabric together as best I could. It was a several days project for me and I finished it up on Saturday. It's not perfect by any means and I probably didn't do it correctly but by golly I like it! It turned out better than I hoped.

On Tuesday Corbin woke up and his voice sounded terrible with a cold and so I kept him home from school. I have had a cold all week as well. On Tuesday we made Valentine sugar cookies although the kids mostly wanted to use the Christmas cookie cutters. They then spent quite a bit of time decorating them. I was impressed. They went all out. I loved it!

Friday we woke up to several inches of snow and if you can believe it they canceled school. Corbin was very excited! I woke up feeling pretty nauseous Friday morning so we had a lounge day. I am still nauseous. Corbin woke me up at 5:00 in the morning when he turned on the bathroom light and started barfing in the toilet. He threw up several times today. So I stayed home from church with all the kids. Piper threw up after she ate her dinner but seems okay now. So we've had colds and barfs over her this week. Not fun. Hopefully we will be healthier next week.

Before

After

Piper eating her "pooberries"

Kids decorating their cookies

Finished product (I forgot to take a picture when they were all laid out)

Chunky Monkey

I love this bubba. So glad he manages to stay healthy when everyone around him is sick.

Scott took the kids out on Saturday to build some snowmen. I took Ryan outside for 2 minutes for the first time. 

Sick bed cuddles

Poor buddy. He never naps so you know he's sick. He's always so happy and sweet and he's pretty much the same way sick. Sweet boy!