Potty training and more

The kids in their new woolies

Colton's new book for his first time going number two on the potty chair! And below is our little Picasso's (Ayla) drawing... it just seemed very abstract, but grown up for her to draw!

Colton washing out his peed on underwear! He has a new found appreciation for being naked!

The last week, Colton has been immersed in getting potty trained. He has been in underwear all day long since last Friday, and has been doing fantastic!! Friday, he went with NO accidents, and since then, he has only had 1-2 a day, so we are very proud. We came up with a bribery plan where if he went one day with no accidents he got a special toy (a trip to the John Deere dealership and a skidder was picked!), 3 days with no accidents he will get another special thing; 5 days; and then 7 days with no accidents, he will recieve the specialest of all toys! He picked a front loader (of course).

I also finished up some adorable woolie pants for the kids... they wear them at night for pj pants, and they seem to REALLY help with the leaks!

One of Colton's favorite things to say right now is "I'll eat you up; I love you so!" This is from one of my favorite books "Where the Wild Things Are", and he says it when he is mad. It makes us all laugh, and he usually gets over being mad, which is awesome! I love my funny, smart, wonderful little rascals!

Yesterday, I kept them busy with helping me make bread and granola bars, and then when Ayla took a nap (Sophie, too) we made some spaghetti sauce with the fresh oregano from the farm share, and it was awesome. I love warm bread out of the oven topped with a mix of butter and honey... yum!!!

diapers

I am teaching a class on cloth diapering next week, so I am getting some random things together to share with the class (hopefully there will be at least one person interested!) One thing I am doing is taking pictures of the process I use with caring for my cloth diapers. Here are a couple photos...

My stacks of "good" and "temporary" diapers.... the temps are just for short periods of time because they don't soak up a lot (or I just don't like them!)

The stacks of diapers after they are stuffed! I found out that I have over 30 diapers... but having the two in diapers it doesn't seem like enough some days!

And of course, a pic of the kids: Colton trying to go in for a kiss, and Ayla playing defense!

PS.... Colton went on the potty chair for the first time! It is a step in the right direction!

Grammy, Auntie, and cousin Aiden!

We had such a great time with Grammy Roxanne, Auntie Danielle, and cousin Aiden! It snowed one of the days, and we went sledding, which was great! The kids had some fun times reading and "fixing" the trucks in the house. The kids had some potty chair time (Ayla went potty for the fourth time!! Colton still hasn't!)... We mostly spent our time sitting in the living room visiting and either knitting or crocheting (Tyler was not involved in the crafts :) ) We were very sad to see them go last night, but we stopped at the ice cream (gellatto?) shop on the way to the train station, so it made it a sweet goodbye! We miss you guys!