Audrey and Nathan Clements

Today's been a long busy day for me with a lot of errands, a late lunch, late quiet time, and a fun but late night at a church dance.

However, Hailey had a great day.

We have been potty training for over a month now and she has only had three dry days. For some strange reason, all three days were Sundays. Also I only remember her pooping in the potty twice which means a lot of laundry for me since those kind of accidents generally happen during quiet time in her bed.

Lately, Hailey has been holding it all morning which is frustrating for me because I hold off my plans until she pees in the potty. Today started off like that. She peed once before breakfast and won't go again. Since I wanted to run errands, I decided to go along with it and just stop at every potty we see. But she did not go the whole time.

I'm driving back home around 1:00pm and smell something funny, so I asked Hailey and she said she pooped in her panties. But when we got home, she was dry as can be (however, sleeping Robert needed a change).

So we had lunch and I'm low on patience and very anxious about Hailey having an accident. And still she won't go in the potty; she tries and sits there but no success. I leave my fate in her hands and continue with our routine of one hour quiet time. About a half hour into it, she opens the door. I shout up my usually questions: "Did you pooped?" "No." "Did you pee?" "No." "Sit on the potty and keep the door closed."

A couple of minutes later, she opens the door and shouts "I peed!" "Where?" was my immediate response. "In the potty!" (We keep her little potty in her room for this reason.) This was great to hear and I ran up stairs to help her finish the process (wipe, flush, wash hands). Since "she listened to her body", Hailey got two fruit snacks (we run out of fruit snacks downstairs and am trying to wean her off needing a treat). So after big congrats, I send her back to her room to finish her quiet time.

A couple of minutes later, she opens her door. I shout up my usually questions: "Did you pooped?" "No." "Did you pee?" "No." "Sit on the potty and keep the door closed." So she closed the door.

A couple of minutes later, she opens her door again. I shout up my usually questions: "Did you pooped?" "No." "Did you pee?" "No." "Sit on the potty and keep the door closed." So she closed the door.

A couple of minutes later, she opens the door and shouts "I pooped!" "Where?" was my immediate response. "In the potty!" And that was the greatest moment I had that day! So we finished the process and she asked to two pieces of fruit snacks which I gladly gave and sent her back to bed to finish quiet time.

When Nathan heard this, he told Hailey he will take her out to ice cream tomorrow. (we are trying to have them have daddy daughter time)

Ending the story here would still make it a great day but I still have good news.

Hailey had an accident free day!!!

In Joy School** we are talking about goals and she just finished her first goal of making her bed, so we set another goal of having dry days. We are back to the sticker chart method.

Sadly, I know that I might not get another day like this for a month or two but still it's good to remember the accomplishments on the way.

**Side note: I do Joy School with just Hailey after quiet time. To find out about what we are doing go to HaileySchool.blogspot.com

Unfortunately, it's been cold here, it has even snowed once. Since the weather changed, I've had to quickly run around and get them new winter clothes. Hailey is now in 3T and Robert is in 18m clothes. Also their feet grew and Hailey's in size 7 and Robert is in size 5s.

I've been thinking about Hannah coming in the middle of winter and have been keeping my eye out for warmer clothes. Hailey has cute baby clothes but they are all for the summer. So when we were at Walmart right before Conference and I saw cute snow suits for $20, I had to get it. Hailey loved the coat especially since it is for Hannah and held it the whole time we were at the store.

When we got home and were ready for Conference, Hailey set up a chair for Hannah and spread her coat over the seats.

We were having a lazy morning, when Robert decided to change the channel on the TV. The channel above PBS is a classical, art type program. Robert switched it when a ballet was on. They started dancing and Hailey wanted to get danced up. Robert also wanted a dance skirt. Too bad my camera was basically out of battery because after these pictures were taken, they held hands and danced around together. I love me cute kids and they are cuter when they are playing nice together.