Today the day I thought would never arrive finally arrived - Keira went to the toilet on her own!! Yay!! :)
I had started to toilet train her in November just before when she turned 3. It was unsuccessful :( She threw the potty and wet her pants. I thought she wanted to stay in nappies because the twins were still in nappies? I don't know the reason - all I knew was that she didn't want to do it so it simply meant she wasn't ready or maybe I just gave up too easily. I didn't peservere with it because I also had to attend to the twins, work and everything else. I thought it would be great to wait until we were in NZ seeing as we would have family assistance for 3 weeks to help with the twins so we could focus on Keira and toilet training. We were semi successful. She got used to sitting on the toilet bowl but she only did anything when we put her there every 10 or so minutes. When she did go on her own, she rarely did anything but at least she started going to the toilet on her own.
After settling in from the holidays, I approached Keira's Child care to start solid toilet training together this week. I bought her nice under wear with butterflies and pretty colours which she really liked and she wanted to wear them. Two days in with wearing undies all day at child care she had no accidents. Today when we arrived home from child care Keira asked me to open the back door which led to the toilet and I realised that she wanted to go to the toilet. I opened it for her and for the first time I heard her wee in the actual bowl. Of course I made a big deal giving her high 5's to encourage her that she did the right thing and to keep doing it. I left her in undies and two more times after that she ran to the toilet on her own and successfully peed in the bowl :) :)
Oh happy days!! It's only the beginning but I'm glad we're finally there and being 3 years old and two months - it is true when they say that kids will go when they are ready to go! I hope it continues to be successful. It couldn't have come at a better time as I am so busy with work at the moment organising the Liverpool Relay For Life event. I have 7 weeks to try and raise $30,000.00!! At the moment we have only raised $500.00 - yelp!! To say I am getting a little stressed is an understatement but at least I was able to celebrate a little victory today :) Well Done Keira xx
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Thursday 31 January 2013
2013 - to be the Best Me
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013
Seeing as we spent the first half of our January 2013 on holidays in NZ and the last half trying to settle back into a routine - I have decided that my New Year and New Beginnings starts in February 2013!
I love the first day of every month and Mondays because they mean new beginnings to me. They usually mean trying to start a new goal for the week or the month.If I fail at it, I always have the next week or the next month or the next year. As with every year I have my usual list of resolutions which include lose weight, be healthy, excercise, read and study the scriptures, go to the Temple more often etc
This year it's just to be the best ME I can be. To try my hardest to be the best mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, employee and person.
Another thing I want to work on this year is being more confident with my descisions. I am a person who always says yes and tries to impress others and make them happy, some times at the expense of my own little family but to be honest it causes me a lot of stress trying to do that all the time. I know my decisions won't please every one but I have to learn to be ok with that as long as my husband and children are happy :) One month into the New Year and I have already failed at this much to my disappointment but it is my WIP (Work in progress).
On my list of bests - is to be a better blogger!! I aim to blog at least once a week - maybe more if I can as I have a lot that I want to record from the past few months especially of our first trip overseas as a Party of Five :) If I'm good I want to publish a blog book at the end of the year.
This is the latest photo of my little family on our second last day in NZ on 13th January with my wonderful father in law, Halo and mother in law, Lilly.
So far in 2013 there already has been lots of highs and a few lows but overall we are happy and we have a lot to look forward to :)
Seeing as we spent the first half of our January 2013 on holidays in NZ and the last half trying to settle back into a routine - I have decided that my New Year and New Beginnings starts in February 2013!
I love the first day of every month and Mondays because they mean new beginnings to me. They usually mean trying to start a new goal for the week or the month.If I fail at it, I always have the next week or the next month or the next year. As with every year I have my usual list of resolutions which include lose weight, be healthy, excercise, read and study the scriptures, go to the Temple more often etc
This year it's just to be the best ME I can be. To try my hardest to be the best mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, employee and person.
Another thing I want to work on this year is being more confident with my descisions. I am a person who always says yes and tries to impress others and make them happy, some times at the expense of my own little family but to be honest it causes me a lot of stress trying to do that all the time. I know my decisions won't please every one but I have to learn to be ok with that as long as my husband and children are happy :) One month into the New Year and I have already failed at this much to my disappointment but it is my WIP (Work in progress).
On my list of bests - is to be a better blogger!! I aim to blog at least once a week - maybe more if I can as I have a lot that I want to record from the past few months especially of our first trip overseas as a Party of Five :) If I'm good I want to publish a blog book at the end of the year.
This is the latest photo of my little family on our second last day in NZ on 13th January with my wonderful father in law, Halo and mother in law, Lilly.
So far in 2013 there already has been lots of highs and a few lows but overall we are happy and we have a lot to look forward to :)
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