Potty Training

I decided to start potty training Layla last week. She has seemed to understand the concept for a long time, but her interest in the potty completely wore off around her 2nd birthday. I thought I would just tell her that she could no longer wear diapers and see what happened after a few days--if it failed miserably, I'd stop for awhile and try again later. However, she's been doing great! I thought since we were going to start, we might as well take a full on approach for a few days since I didn't have anything going on anyway. The first day she just begged for diapers every time she had to go, but by the second day she was doing better and by the third day she really understood to ask to go potty and how to go when I told her to go (like before nap time or leaving or whatever). We started a week ago Thursday and up until yesterday she had been doing good this week without any potty mistakes, but then had one yesterday:(.
I'm really proud of her though and it has actually gone much better than I anticipated. It took a lot of patience the first couple of days, but by the third day we even ventured out to GR with her in underwear and to church on Sunday (and with no mistakes--although she fell asleep on the way to GR which made me nervous that she might pee in her car seat but thankfully didn't!). I'm glad that we decided to give it a try and hopefully she continues to do well!

Elv doesn't normally like sitting by Layla so I thought this was cute...

Pretty sure Gibs got jipped out of some of his pancake:)...Layla wants him to sit right next to her...

Post bath last night with Daddy...and yes, Gibs is wearing a purple hippo towel--poor kid needs his own big boy towel--unfortunately Walmart no longer has the Mickey one like Layla's Minnie one:(...


Layla likes to do everything for herself, including put her pants on, which explains why they're on backwards:)...she also still loves dumping out Gibs' basket of toys for him to play with which he actually does appreciate:)...

My dad and Joyce (and I think Joyce's daughter too) have made TONS of boxes for Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child. Grampy had Layla pick out toys to put her in her box (with my help:D) and then we brought it to our church...I'm not sure she fully understood who is getting the box:)...

Gibson being his typical mischievious self...

We started off Potty Day with a special not so healthy breakfast consisting of a cupcake (she's licking the frosting off of the pumpkin that had been in the cupcake). I knew she wouldn't be happy about potty day, so I tried to get the day started on the right foot, it really did help too:).

Who doesn't love a good baby covered in spaghetti sauce (or ravioli actually) picture? :) Had I known I was going to take a picture, I would not have opted for the pink bib:).