Potty Training (for real)

This is it!  I decided that Monday would be the first day of full-blown potty training for Xavier.  We had played around with it before to see if he was ready, but this time we're not turning back!  Monday was pretty unproductive.  He sat on the potty many times, but didn't pee in it at all.  He had 2 pee-pee accidents, but really did all of his peeing in his pull-up during his nap.  Tuesday was much different!  He peed in this potty all day long!  No poop either day, though. 

Wednesday was the same.  About 10am, though, Xavier started walking around the daycare room in circles (think of a dog deciding where to poop).  I knew that he had to be pretty plugged up because he normally poops 3-4 times a day and now he had gone almost 3 days!  After circling a couple times, he tried to escape the daycare room because he said he "needed to go nigh-nigh."  Well, I knew he really just wanted to hide in a corner and poop somewhere.  At this point I just felt sorry for the poor boy and just wanted him to get his poop out - who cares about the potty!  So, I asked him if he wanted to put in a diaper and poop in his diaper.  He of course wanted to.  Once it was on, he hid in a corner and did his business.  He felt much better after!

Thursday and Friday have been the same.  He has not had a pee-pee accident since the first day!  He doesn't tell me when he has to go, yet, but he does hold it for a long time.  I only ask put him on the potty every couple hours.  Yesterday he pooped in his pants about 5 times - I'm very discouraged.  Today, no poop anywhere.  I think I'm back at square one on the poop. 

His reward for going on the potty is yogurt-raisins.  Lately, he's just as happy hearing how happy we are and how proud we are of him as he is getting yogurt raisins.  He's such a good boy!  (This picture is actually from February.  I haven't taken any this week.)

Glamor Shots

Isabelle took the camera yesterday and apparently had a glamor shots session with Xavier.  I saw these pics when we were at the lacrosse game this afternoon.  Brian said he heard Isabelle telling Xaiver - "stop smiling," well now we know why.

Soccer and Lacrosse

Isabelle first soccer and lacrosse games were this weekend.  The girls looked a little rusty at the soccer game, but the second half was much better than the first, so I think it's coming back to them.  Isabelle scored 2 goals!  I got a picture of the first one, but wasn't able to get the second one.

We all had our first experience with lacrosse this afternoon.  It's a hard game!  We could barely figure out what was going on.  Isabelle did great - she said a first she was a little lost, but after a few minutes, she was understanding it a lot more.  A game is much different than a practice.  They had 2 games, so by the second game, they looked tons better.  We all have a lot to learn!

 

The game starts (and after each goal) with kind of a jump ball.  I'm not sure what it's called.  The umps put the ball between their nets, then the girls are supposed to throw it in the air, and then they all go after it.  Isabelle got to do one of the jump balls.

Question?

What causes BLACK poop?  I just changed Anna's diaper and her poop was so black it was almost purple!  It didn't smell at all, but was really black...

Happy Easter!

The Bertke Easter was Saturday afternoon.  Xavier had lots of fun.  Again, though, he didn't get very many eggs at the hunt because he wanted to open them first.  Daddy ate all of the candy he collected anyway!

The Easter Bunny came to Grandma Selhorst's this morning.  Anna and Xavier got backpacks and a few small things, while Isabelle got a blow dryer.  She has decided she wants to take her showers in the morning now, so she has been using mine.  She's pretty big stuff now!

After Easter mass, we went to Grandma Bertke's for lunch and some play time.  Nancy and Chance, Deb and John, and Grandma Bohman were all able to make it too.  Xavier went down the slide and got his pants wet, so he wandered around for a while without pants!

Outside Fun

It was so warm this past week, we actually got to play outside!  Mady is loving running around the yard.  Anna has been crawling on the cement; she does not have pretty knees right now!  Xavier, as usual, is just soooo busy!

"Shed-Raising"

After a lot of back and forth with Lowe's (I'm not going into it!), we finally had our shed delivered!  Brian had Friday off work, so that was his plan for the day.  The shed was delivered about 11:00 and the work began!

I suggested that the large branch on the tree would need to come down, but Brian thought he should discuss it with Xavier first. 

Hmmmm, where do I start?

Just jump right in, I guess.  No chainsaw, no problem...he'll just use a hack saw!

Next, we need to blow off the dust...

Cutting down the branch put Brian back a few hours, so the 1-day project, turned into 2 days.  After the kids went to bed, I was able to help and it was mostly finished Friday night.

Lock it up - it's done!!!