Library Halloween Party

Today when we were at the library checking out books, the librarian asked Taylor if she was coming to their Halloween party tonight, so, of course, she got super excited about the Halloween Party. There was no way I was going to tell her no. Taylor put on her cosutme tonight and I took her to the Halloween Party at the library. April brought Abigail and the girls had a blast together! They got to play games, make crafts, storytime, and snacks. Fun!! Fun!!

Days 2 and 3 of potty training

Well, Sunday was day 2 of potty training. Sunday didn't go as well as Saturday did. Taylor had 2 accidents, but one of them was my fault. We were talking to my brother on Skype and I didn't take to the potty when I was suppose to, so, she peed on me. I learned my lesson!

Monday was day 3 and she did great! Nathan came home yesterday from St. Louis and helped with the potty training since I actually had to do some work. She didn't have 1 accident yesterday! She seems to like being a big girl like all her friends. She also loves getting to pick out her big girl panties, but she wants to wear a new pair every time she goes to the bathroom. Looks like I am going to have to go buy some more panties!

She seems to have it down, but I know it will still take a while until she is fully potty trained. I am really proud of her and I think she is proud of herself. The past 3 days weren't as bad as I thought they would be. I was a little stir crazy though after being locked in the house for 3 days straight. It did help that we had to go to the airport yesterday morning to pick up Nathan. That was a nice break.

No more diapers!!

Potty Training Day 1

Taylor started potty training yesterday. Our baby sitter (homebased daycare provider), Tammy, has a foolproof 3 day potty training program that has worked for her parents for the last 18 years. So, yesterday was day 1 of our potty training program. We have to go sit on the potty for 10-15 minutes every 15 minutes. To tell you the truth, I was dreading doing this for 3 days.

Taylor did awesome yesterday!! She went almost every time I put her on the potty. She cried a few times, but that just seemed to make her pee, so then she was happy. She didn't have any accidents yesterday and was dry when she woke up from nap. Rock on! Tammy said she knew Taylor was ready and I agree. I think we will have this down pack by the end of day 3.

Taylor did so well yesterday, we went through almost all of the potty training presents we had gotten her. I had 15 presents ready for the 3 days. She had 3 left by the time she went to bed yesterday. I had to resort to pulling out some of her small Christmas presents and wrapping them. It's a good thing I like to Christmas shop early!

Potty training presents!

First present of the day

Another potty training present

Fruit Loops make me smile

Taylor had a bowl of fruit loops for breakfast this morning. I am not a fan of fruit loops, but she seems to love them. I only bought them so that she could work on stringing them on a string since they have a big whole in the middle of them. I think she ate more than she got on the string that day. Anyways, she had some this morning for breakfast without milk because we are out of milk, so I let her take her bowl of fruit loops with us in the car on the way to Tammy's.

I had to go to the podiatrist for my foot this morning after I dropped her off. When I was sitting in the exam room waiting for the doctor, I looked down and saw a little piece of green fruit loop on my sweater. I picked it up and smiled because it made me think of Taylor. It was such a sweat, sincere moment.

That moment I knew what I was going to write in our 'Book of Joy' tonight. To fill you in, Courtney told us about this lady who's blog she reads who does a bible story every night after dinner with her family and then everyone tells what they are thankful for. I think it is called a Gratitude Journal. Courtney told us about this one morning in Bible Study and gave us our own journals. Mine had a "J" on it, so I call it our Book of Joy. We try to do it every night, but we don't always remember to do it. Okay, back to my story.......Tonight, I will write Fruit Loops in my Book of Joy.

It's the little things in life........

ECPTA Halloween Party

Tonight we went to the Early Childhood PTA Halloween Party. Taylor dressed up like Baby Jaguar from Go Diego Go! on Nichelodeon. Taylor likes to ROAR in her outfit. She had a great time playing games and seeing all her friends at the party.




Taylor as Baby Jaguar




Getting her Jaguar face on




ROARing at me!



Family pic



Jumped down the Hopscoth

Putting the bean bags in the mans mouth

Golfing with daddy

Bean bag toss

Daddy daughter photo

Shooting baskets.....with a little help

Crawling around on the Bounce House

Arboretum full of pumpkins

This morning we went to the Arboretum with the Huskeys. It was a beautiful morning and the girls had a great time running around and expending all that little person energy. Nathan and I played with my new camera and got some great pictures. I think we took around 350 pictures this morning.

Paradise Pond

This morning we met our ECPTA playgroup at Paradise Pond in Grapevine. It is an indoor playground with different areas of toys. Taylor played mostly in the giant bug/dinosaur area and then we both went up the giant climbing structure. As you can tell, I played with my new camera most of the time.