Pee in the Potty!!!

Well you might not think that this is such a big deal...until I tell you who pee'd in the potty! It wasn't Ryann (though she has been doing okay today...she stayed dry at school and went potty for me when I picked her up)...but this time it was Jaxon!! I was changing his diaper before we went out to run errands and he insisted on sitting on the potty before I put his new diaper back on. So I'm like okay, I don't want to discourage him on using it...so I sat him on the potty thinking oh he'll just sit there for a few minutes and then say his done and get off. So I turned around to see what C.J. was doing in the living room when I heard the distinct sound of something spraying everywhere. I turn back to Jaxon to see him peeing everywhere! LOL! I quickly went over to help him "aim" in the right spot, and then cleaned up the floor. But boy was he so pleased with himself for using the potty and we praised him big time (we'll just have to work on that aim a bit!) I need to buy a potty seat that has a shield on it to help block those little accidents from happening!

Ryann had her last day of school today and then on Wednesday they have their class picnic. I need to find a present for her teacher so that Ryann can give it to her when she see's her. So I'll have one less kid to run back and forth to school and then Doogie and Jayde are done June 11th. Doogie has an end of the year picnic as well, and I don't know what they are doing for Jayde just yet. Ryann's teacher was talking about doing a "park hop" this summer where every Wednesday they would have a park playdate set up where people could show up so that the kids could still play and see eachother over the summer, and she was going to try to make it to alot of them as well so she could see the kids. So that will be alot of fun, I know Ryann is going to miss all of her school buddies. I need to make sure I get out our new phone number and address to everyone, so that we can have playdates.

Jayde was so funny this morning. We went to the flower nursery with Grammy this morning to look at flowers. And I was getting ideas for my flower gardens that I want to do once we get our yard situated. But Jayde really wanted this lavendar plant so we told her okay...that can be yours, but you got to take care of it and water it until we can plant it somewhere. So she said okay and then the whole time we were walking around she was telling everyone that this was her plant. When we were leaving she insisted on carrying it herself and holding it in the car, while we were walking out to the car she was talking to her plant to help it grow big and strong! It was pretty cute. She was a really good girl for me this morning and I think she loved getting that positive attention!

Anyways, here are some pictures from yesterday...one from Ryann's party (the one with her and her two friends) and then the others from when we came back and swam with Uncle Chris, his girlfriend Melissa and her son Christian. And I'll try to update again tonight since Doogie and Jayde have a game tonight....I need to remember to bring the camera so I can get some pics of them playing!

Birthday Party

We had Ryann's birthday party today. I think it went quite well, we just had a small party with mostly family and a few of her friends from school. We decided to have it at the place where they have gymnastics. I think they all had a great time running around playing on the equipment and playing the games that the instructor set up. I need to download my pictures off my camera so I can upload some for you all to see! One of the things I liked about the party was that they do the set up and the take down of the party so you don't have to spend all that time cleaning and what not before and after the party, and they supplied everything but the cake and food (even the goody bags!) But the most important thing was that all the kids had a great time playing. I got some really cute pictures of Ryann and her buddies!

Afterwards we headed back home and hopped into the pool, we are still having 90 degree weather, though it is supposed to start cooling off and get down to the 70's by Tuesday. My brother, his girlfriend and her son joined us in the pool. The kids swam for the rest of the afternoon until we had them get out at dinner. So they are good and tired and most of them (all except Ryann) went down pretty quickly tonight. Ryann had taken her birthday presents to bed with her and instead of going to sleep was playing...I hadn't realized she had done that until she got out of bed to tell me she couldn't find her mouse (Gus, from Cinderella). I told her she should be sleeping anyways and that we will look for him tomorrow!

C.J. LOVES the pool! I thought he might not like it because it is still a little cool (though with the warm weather it has been warming up), but he got in and was splashing and smiling and having the time of his life. Even when the kids you splash him with water he wouldn't get upset...he would start laughing like it was just the funniest thing! So I've got another water baby on my hands! Both Jayde and Doogie are excited about the fact that they have passed the swim test...which basically is swimming the entire length of the pool without touching the bottom. Jayde will still struggle some, so when she doesn't have her floaties on we have to keep a close eye on her. Jaxon loves to just float around with his floaties on and his tube, he thinks he is pretty cool. Though he was a little leary today of getting in since he had a little incident yesterday in the pool, his tube wasn't up high enough and he was a little top heavy. The floaties of course kept him from going under but he was panicking because his face kept going in. Papa got to him pretty quickly, but it did scare him. Which is some ways is good, since a healthy fear of the water can be a good thing. But after a few minutes in the pool with his Daddy holding him and off he went again!

Ryann is starting to slowly improve with the potty. I think wanting to swim is taking precedence of not wanting to get on the potty. She even pooped today in the potty, she was very excited and happy with herself (though she did end up pooping again about a half hour later in her pull-ups). However she is making progress. I figure if we just swim every day all day we'll get her potty trained in no time! LOL! Not to mention they will all sleep really good at night. They all actually slept in this morning and slept until around 8:00! Not bad since they are usually are up around 7 or earlier! All except Ryann and Jaxon usually, they like to sleep in a bit longer as long as no one wakes them up!

Lost A Tooth!!

Jayde lost her second tooth this morning! She was eating her cereal for breakfast and out it came! She was pretty excited about it, she came running over to me yelling "my tooth came out"! So I put it in a baggie for her and put her name and the date on it and she went running upstairs to show Doug her tooth. Now I just need to remember to stick a dollar under her pillow tonight after she goes to sleep. When she lost her first tooth, she had swallowed it while she was sleeping...which she was pretty upset about. She thought that the tooth fairy wouldn't come (and she almost didn't!) But I reassured her and told her that the tooth fairy would know where to go! Then I almost forgot to give her her dollar, I ended up giving it to her myself the next morning and told her that the tooth fairy left it with me sine she couldn't very well put it where her tooth had been! That seemed to work, and Jayde thought nothing of it!

I also forgot to mention the whole potty incident yesterday with Ryann. I had her go potty for me before she got to go in the pool, reminding her that if she went potty in the pool she wouldn't be able to swim anymore. She said okay, and I asked her periodically while she was swimming if she needed to go and would remind her once again what would happen if she went potty...each time however she would tell me she didn't have to go. Then she happened to get out of the pool and was about to get back in when Doug noticed she was carrying a load in her swimsuit! YUCK!! Have I told you that I hate potty training...especially when they poop! So I dragged her back into the house and started getting the mess cleaned up and informed her that she was done swimming now...something she wasn't very happy to hear! We're thinking that maybe this will be the thing that gets her to use the potty. We figure that a couple times watching everyone else swim and not being able to join them might do the trick...I know it sounds pretty mean though and I hate to do it to her, however she is 4 now and she really needs to decide to start using the potty! I think if her diabetes hadn't kicked in last summer she would of been potty trained at 3...but oh well, that's the way life goes at times.

First Swim of the Season

We had a pretty busy day today. We had to take Ryann up to Spokane for her diabetes check-up. She is doing well, we have been having alot of highs lately so we were strategizing some ways that we could battle that and we adjusted her insulin dosages some. But all in all, she is doing quite well and we will continue to plug away at it.

When we returned home from our trip we all headed for the pool! It was up in the 90's today so it was very nice out. The water was still a bit cold for my taste (in the low 70's) but the kids didn't seem to mind it! They all had a great time swimming and hanging out outside. Hopefully they are all tired out now and will sleep good for the night and if I'm lucky sleep in tomorrow!

Tomorrow, I'm hoping to get over to the house and get some painting done. Doug is over there tonight working on getting the cupboards in so that we can go and order the countertops and get going on that. And I also need to get out and pick things up to put in Ryann's goody bags for her party on Sunday.

More pictures....

Okay, I promised that I was going to try and update alot more and add pictures more regularly...so here I go.

I forgot to mention in my post yesterday that Jayde and Doogie are playing coach pitch on the same team this year. Doogie has improved sooo much since last year (Jayde as well). I think it helps that Doug is here this year for it. Last year when they played he was still in NJ. They try to get out every evening after school and work to throw the ball around and maybe practice that swing. Doug was showing Doogie how to pitch last night...he has quite the arm! I think if he really wants to and works hard at it he could be a great pitcher! Jayde has this natural athletic ability where if she decides she wants to play she does great! But if she doesn't want to play there is absolutely nothing you can do about it! I still remember when she played soccer for the first time and she would just stand there on the field stubbornly and not play on some days while on others she would run around on the field and kick the ball. Guess that just goes to show how different each child is from.

For instance...Miss Ryann...what am I going to do with that girl, we still don't have her potty trained yet. I think I have tried every form of bribery that I can think of and still nothing works. Part of the problem I think is that she just got frustrated and discouraged with it last summer when we were trying to get her trained. That was when her diabetes started showing up...though we didn't know what it was until October. She would go potty for me, but then just 5 minutes later she would wet her pants. That was a sign of high blood sugar...course we didn't know that! And I think that is why she still has some issues now. Because when her blood sugar is high she wants to drink more fluids, which then of course causes her to go to the bathroom alot more. And not to mention the fact that she still probably remembers how it was last summer when she tried. Of course I can't discount the fact that she is also very very stubborn! So when you mix all of those combinations up it has been quite a trial! Our newest game plan is every hour to go and put her on the potty...of course that doesn't always work, sometimes I swear she goes potty on purpose right before I get her to the toilet! She does have an onry streak in her! And then there are times we forget to take her to the potty as well, since we get distracted by other things! But I guess there really isn't anything else we can do except just keep plugging away at it in hopes that something will just finally click into place for her and she'll decide she wants to do this!

I have to say so far as potty training, boys are alot easier to get trained than girls! Jayde was really stubborn about getting trained as well (though she was alot easier than Ryann)! Guess we got spoiled with Doogie since it only took him a week! Jaxon has been starting to show an interest in it (probably because we've been making such a big deal of it with Ryann). So maybe a little competition will get Ryann started!

Jaxon is such a fun little guy! He's become quite the chatterbox and has a great sense of humor! He is really starting to slim down and lose that baby fat. He's looking more like a little boy than a baby. For a while there he was wanting me to spike his hair (in the front) for him. Doogie wanted me to do that for him for a while because he thought it was pretty cool! Jaxon saw me doing it and decided that he wanted it too. I have to say it makes him look even more grown up when I do it. He is still very into Blue's Clues...I think we watch that a million times a day. It's always Blue and Joe, Blue and Joe with that boy! Maybe we should of named C.J. Joe instead! I'm sure Jaxon would of loved that! LOL!

Happy Birthday Ryann!!!

It's been a while hasn't it! Yikes! I really need to do a better job at keeping things updated. I promise I will try harder in the future! Things have been pretty crazy over here with trying to get the house finished up so that we can move in. It has been slowly coming along though. We got the kitchen, living room and hallway painted and got the wood flooring down (it looks really nice). Doug's got most of the cupboards done in the kitchen and we just have to get them put in and then we can order the countertops and appliances. Then we have to finish painting all the rest of the rooms. So hopefully soon we will be in our own house again...it's been over a year since the kids and I have had a home of our own!

Lets see other happenings have been sickies!! Jaxon had an ear infection and an upper respritory infection, the upper respiritory infection came back a couple days after his medicince was gone so he is now back on some stronger stuff and feeling lots better! C.J. is getting over his first ear infection as well, I think he had pretty much the same stuff that Jaxon did. We also took Ryann in this week since she was complaining about ear pain and though she didn't have an ear infection she has a bunch of wax coming out of her tubes. It was pretty interesting looking...the doctor let us look at it. So he is refering us to an ENT so that we can get it checked out. But for now we are putting some of her ear drops in to see if we can't jar that wax loose so that she doesn't have any ear pain. Weight wise....Ryann weighed in at 43lbs, Jaxon 38lbs and C.J. a whopping 22lbs 11.5 oz! So you can see he isn't a little light weight anymore! LOL! He loves to eat and he loves his bottles!

Okay, and now the big news for the day is that Ryann is now 4!! Can't believe she is 4 already! She is just growing up on me and his such a fun kid to have around. We are going to have her party on Sunday at the gymnastics place, so that should be alot of fun. I'll have to get some pictures up of all the kids soon!

Oh and Mr. C.J. has been all over the place...this kid just doesn't slow down unless he is asleep! He pulls himself up on everything and has started climbing up on things as well. He walks all over the place holding on to the furniture. I don't think it will be long before he is just taking off. He wants to do what everyone else is doing! I don't remember any of the other kids being as busy as he is.

So that is all that has been happening with us recently. And I promise I will be more dilligent in updating more often and adding some pictures for you all to see!

3 Staples...

We had to take poor Jayde to the emergency room last night. I tell you, it always seems to be her that has to get the stitches (or staples in this case...) First when she was only two and took a header into a wooden step and had to get stitches by her eye, then again when she was 3 and got her finger slammed in a door (split her poor fingertip in half, not a pretty sight!) And now to add to the list she has 3 staples in the back of her head. Don't worry though she is doing just fine and you would never even know we were in the emergency room for 2 hours last night.

So here's what happened.... Her brother and her were wrestling around right before bed (after I had just told them no wrestling) and somehow in the all the chaos Doogie pushed her off of him and she went flying backwards and fell and hit her head right on the corner/edge of the wall and cut her head. I didn't even realize she was bleeding until I was rubbing the back of her head and my hand came back covered in blood...and of course you know how head wounds like to bleed. So I had to search through all of that thick hair of hers and see where the blood was coming from and she had a gash about 3/4 of an inch long. So to the ER we go.... She was such a brave girl though and actually slept through the entire process. I had to hold some numbzit stuff onto her wound for about half hour 45 minutes and by then she had fallen asleep on my lap. So the doctor came back in and washed and irrigated the wound and popped a few staples in her head without her ever being the wiser. So we are just hanging out at home for a couple days, since they said no strenous activity for a couple days (though she keeps telling me she wants to go to school!) I just have to keep an eye on it and clean it a couple times a day and she can't get her head wet for a few days. And then we will go and get her staples removed in a week.

So anyways, that was how we spent our night last night! I told her next time she wanted to stall about going to bed to find another way to do it! And of course poor Doogie just felt horrible about the whole thing! And he was pretty worried about her. The first thing he asked to do this morning was to see the staples in her head! I told him that it was just and accident and that we know he didn't mean to hurt her. And we had a talk about how when mommy and daddy tell them not to do something it is usually for a pretty good reason!