Potty Training is like Labor...

Potty training is like labor, you don't remember how bad it is until you are right smack in the middle of it. It's been another long week. I think by Wednesday I was very tempted to throw in the towel and be done with the whole potty training business. I can say now that I think we have made it to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Monday was a long day. Piper needed to poop and hadn't done so in the toilet yet. She was holding it in and had been for days. My other kids never did this. They would just poop in their underwear until they figured it out. I would totally prefer that to holding it in. My nephew held it in and it was horrible. He was in pain for days and he would scream throughout the day in pain. My sister-in-law started putting mucelax in his food and drink and he hated the taste so he wasn't eating, drinking, or pooping. Stress! So I was worried that Piper was going to be the same way. She had lots of false starts and went through at least 7 pairs of underwear that day. By about 7:00 that night I had had it and I left her in the bathroom to scream and hopefully poo, which she did on the ground! That was great, seriously I would rather have  her poo anywhere rather than her holding it in forever. She wasn't done yet and got a partial poo out in the bath. Afterwards she screamed like crazy because she was terrified of it! Tuesday she held it all day. Wednesday I was so tired of the whole business. I wanted to quit but my pride wouldn't let me. Ha. At her naptime I went and got a bunch of fiber friendly foods. I even bought bubble bath. I was happy for her to poo in the bath rather than hold it in. Well of course right after I spent $30 she went poop in the toilet for the first time. She did it again later that day. I was sitting on the floor helping her power through her poo while nursing Ryan. Seriously motherhood is not for the weak! This is hard business. Wednesday was a tiring day and I decided I wanted to go out. I looked in the cheap theaters and was surprised that there were actually 3 movies I wanted to see. I texted my sister in law to see if she wanted to go with me. We went to The Book Thief. I loved every minute. I was so happy to get away from all that potty training business. I loved the book and I loved the movie. I don't recommend either if you don't like things that are sad by the way. But I loved it and I want to watch it again.

Piper still holds it in as long as possible and probably tells me she needs to poop about 5 times to every 1 time she actually does something. So it's still a long tiring process. As far as her potty is concerned she was having about an accident a day. I'm getting pretty tired of that so I've kind of started making her pee now and then. She hasn't had an accident in 2 days. She has also pooped in the toilet every time since her first time on Wednesday. She wakes up dry every morning as long as she doesn't have anything to drink a couple of hours before bed and if she pees before bed. She stays dry during her nap. When I was tired and discouraged earlier in the week I was reading potty training stuff online and I got more discouraged! Ha. They were talking about potty training taking 6 months and kids not pooping on the toilet for years! So I am very happy that she seems to be pretty much trained! It will still be awhile until I'm not nervous she's going to have an accident and until she's more comfortable going number 2 on the toilet. Anyway sorry for all the gory details!

On Friday I had to help with a funeral. I am the compassionate service coordinator and we had to get enough food for 100 people. It was the funeral of a less active sister's dad and they were doing the funeral at another church so I had to arrange for all the of the food to be delivered to a few of our houses and we had to drive all the food over. Our relief society president decided that from now on we were only going to help for funerals at our building. That was a little crazy. The man was cremated so we've known about it for a month. I'm happy that I don't have to worry about that anymore. Scott went on an elder's quorum retreat Friday night. They stayed in a cabin and the next day they went snowmobiling. I went over to a friend's house in the ward and since we were husband less we got pizza and watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I was so nervous Piper was going to have an accident on my friends 5 day old carpet! Luckily she was actually a very good sport that night and went to the bathroom when I asked her to several times just to be extra safe.

Scott really wanted to have super bowl treats so I went to the store last night. It was crazy crowded! Everyone was there getting super bowl treats and plus it was the first of the month which I try to always avoid shopping on. People get their food stamps on the first of the month and it's always crazy busy, so it was doubly busy. We don't give a flip about the super bowl, we just wanted an excuse to pig out on all kinds of unhealthy snack food. So we busted out the snack food and decided to watch Fiddler on the Roof instead. I would rather watch that for sure. It was fun. The kids had a great time snacking and dancing to the songs. Well this was a long one!

Corbin playing with his dominoes in the bath and he thought I would want a picture. Of course!

Whenever we go anywhere Gabby has to take a ton of stuff with her. No joke taking Corbin to school takes 5 minutes total and she loads up. You can't see that she also has a jar filled with 10 rings in this picture. Oh Gabby!

The girls dressed up to go to the indoor park.

Don't mind my reflection in the glass but this is Corbin's school Kindergarten picture. I think it is precious!!!

Dress Up!

Piper probably asked to go to Nana and Papa's house everyday. It's so funny. I get her dressed and fix her hair everyday and yet every time I do it she seems to think it means we are going to Nana and Papa's house. It's funny! I don't blame her it is fun at Nana and Papa's house.

Gabby quote in this costume: "I'm super good guy Gabby and I'm going to kill Piper!" Oh man it's funny and not so funny. Ha.

Our Super bowl snacks for Fiddler on the Roof.

Cute bubba. He's still a cute chubby bubba.