The Dance Five: January 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Big Boy

So we are officially diaper free at our house yeah!!!!

Jace is such a big boy he tells me mom i have to go potty okay:)

He has gone to bed in his underwear and woke up dry every morning this week, so proud of this little man. Our biggest problem with this time around potty training is calling them underwear not PANTIES lol. after two girls that's what we have called them around here.

This is his reward i let him pick a few different things( Krabby Patties, Tootsie Rolls. Twizzler twists & Dum Dums) then we mixed them up into baggies, i put one in my purse and kept one on the fridge. I was tyring to figure out when i should stop rewarding him with treats so i decided when the two baggies are gone then that's the end of the rewards. Half the time he forgets anyways, so until the next baby we are diaper free around this house.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Journaling: Heart issues & Potty training

So i have no pictures to go with this post but needed to write these things down.

Yesterday was a crazy day, i started to potty train jace he woke up and wanted to go poop in the potty so i figured why not. I was going to wait until we got home from our trip so i didn't have to leave him with everyone just beginning the process.

Well he was doing so good then i get a phone call from the school nurse asking me to come to the school because megan was in the nurse's room she said megan's heart was beating really fast too fast so i threw on jace's pants leaving him in his underwear.. brave i know right.

We get to the school and the nurse calls me into her office where megan is laying down she said can i talk to you for a minute, so we talked for a bit she said Megan's heart rate is supposed to be about 110 and it was in the 140's and that she looked really white.

Well she came home early to rest i don't know what I'm going to do with this girl i can't follow her around at school and make sure she won't run around at recess or get to excited.

I feel so bad for her she just want's to play with all the other kids there has got to be something they can have her do during recess, i try to tell her to take it easy but that's not easy for a 6 yr old. She has an apt. next month with her heart Dr. so we will see what she says, her Dr. said there is medication she can get on but we will see.

On a different note Jace is doing okay with the potty training he will go # 2 in the potty but # 1 not so much he will just stand there in his underwear and pee then look at me like oops!!!

Usually it's the other way around at least for my girls they would pee in the potty but had a hard time with going poo in the potty for awhile, i stayed home all day today so he could just chill in his undies and even the nude lol. we had a lot of accidents but no # 2 accidents.

I did however get a ton of deep cleaning done while jace sat on his potty watching cartoons, he just brought the toilet to the family room and sat on it.

Wish me luck for a better day tomorrow:)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Family getaway

We took advantage of the long weekend and headed to a hotel for a fun family getaway.

The kids were being silly playing on the bed the bed which they kicked me and dustin out of, the 3 kids slept on the huge bed and me and dustin slept on the pull out couch.

We did a little swimming

Jace is going to be so fun this summer he had a blast swimming and didn't want to get out

We came back from swimming and cooked dinner and watched a movie.

On monday we headed over to the children's museum @ the gateway but it was insanely busy with it being a holiday, so we left and were going to go to Pirate Island in orem but we called just to make sure they were open and they didn't open until later that day. We then decided to go to lunch at one of our favorite places Chuck e mama ( that's what my kids call it) then we went to Boondocks. We had such a fun weekend i love experiencing new things with my kids, i wish they could come with me and dustin on our trip next week i sure miss my kids when i have to leave them.

Dinner and a movie

The girls were still out of school for one more day so i decided to surprise the kids and take them out, we started by eating dinner at the Pizza Factory then headed to a movie.

The YUMMIEST bread sticks ever!!!

I love this picture of bubba checking out his bread stick

Well what do you know they had a life size cut out of Justin Beiber, all the kids had to pose by him.

There was only 8 people in the entire theater 4 of them being us

I was so surprised jace kept his glasses on on the entire movie

We saw Yogi bear which i had heard was dumb, but we all really liked it.

I sure love my kiddos, i was really not looking forward to my kids being out of school for two weeks just because they fight all the time but we had a great couple of weeks doing fun stuff with each other, even Dustin had off almost 3 weeks.

School Night @ Classic Skating

The girls school rented out classic skating again, the kids love to go and hang out with their friends.

This time Jace even got to ride around and had a blast.

The d.j. played this game where the kids would skate around to music and when he turned off the music they had to hurry and fall down and if the last person to fall was a boy then the girls got a point and if the last person to fall was a girl then the boys got a point, the girls ended up winning. The kids thought it was such a fun game.

Okay so we were getting ready to leave and the d.j. guy says okay we have a special guest coming in 30 minutes well my girls were convinced it was Justin beiber i said girls it's not Justin beiber but we can stay and see who it is, well the d.j. kept talking it up making it sound like it was going to be someone famous.

Well a half hour later he announces that the special guest was here to do the hokey poky with us so everyone gets all excited and in walks the Icee mascot, yeah lets just saw it was quiet nobody cheered then the d.j. says come on show him some love and then everyone cheered. By the time the Icee Mascot left all the kids were not wanting him to leave.

Happy Birthday Daddy-O

We got together for my dads birthday last week, we had banana splits and my dads favorite German chocolate cake.

My dad used to be a manager of a restaurant called "Hardees" and he would bring home boxes of the toys does anyone remember the raisin guys, well i went to a thrift shop awhile back and found a bag of them so we put them on my dads cake. He loved it!!