Big news in the Mayer household...

After only less than a week, Ms. Mady is potty trained! AND Ms. Emma pooped on the potty yesterday! YAY!

Videos!

The girls and I shot some videos to send to Daddy today since he wasn't available to talk to via phone :)

Yay! Mady's peein' on the potty!

We finally got Mady to start peeing on the potty a few days ago. She even pooped once! She's had a few accidents, but is doing great! She's so happy. As soon as she had her first full pee, I took her Toys R Us as promised to get her a Rapunzel Barbie Doll. Emma was with us too and that little stinker... she was promised the same thing if she would poop on the potty. She's acting like she could care less because she SO doesn't want to poop on the potty!

In other news, we are heading to the fertility doctor next week. We just want to talk about options, especially if we choose not to have a 3rd child. We have 3 frozen embryos left!

Ah... Potty Training

Emma has been successfully trained to pee on the potty for maybe 2 months now? She will still not poop on the potty. She usually holds it until she comes home from daycare or my parents house and then poops in her underwear or asks for a diaper. Not fun cleanup up, but the poor girl is usually constipated, so I guess it could be worse. I'm not even sure how we got it to work for her. She had plenty of accidents and I wanted to give up a million times. We focused on her first because she had interest in it and really wanted to wear big girl underwear. It probably took us a good 2-3 weeks of trying before it stuck. Some kids do it in a weekend. Not mine :)

Mady is a different story. She has had no interest and I haven't wanted to push. They will be 3 in September though and I think it's time. We've let her run around in underwear a few times and she spent most of the weekend in them when we were home. She had one accident and no successful peeing on the potty. The poor girl did try very hard 3 times yesterday. I think she's got a big bladder because she is never wet in the morning (Emma always is) and it seems like she can go 3 hours or so without peeing.

I've now resort to bribery. I let them sit down with me and look at Barbie dolls on Toys r Us.com. If Mady pees on the potty, I told her I'd take her out day or night no matter what time to go get one :) And if Emma poops on the potty, she gets hers. I know of course, that I will give in and buy them both one of the other achieves one of these. I figure I can use Barbie accessories as the next goal.

Wish us luck - we'll need it!

Okay, so it's been awhile AGAIN!

Click here for April's Pics.

As I uploaded some pictures from April today, it occurred to me that I don't think we have any pictures of the girls from May! Yikes!

A quick update on all of us: I had my hours cut at work a few weeks ago by a full day. It's an adjustment financially, but I think we'll be okay. I'm going to use the time to get some stuff done around the house that I can't find time for otherwise. The girls will stay in "school" twice a week in June, but then in July/August, we'll need to cut them back to one day to try to help make up the for the money difference. I hate to take them out of school, as they are learning so much. They love it most days too. Emma told me today that she cried for me at nap time. Summer is a great time to spend more time with them. I think we are going to hold off on preschool until they are 4. In the meantime, I'm trying to rework the Lil' LJ website and focus on that and freelance.

Here's what our smarty-pants are up to:
They know their opposites - up/down, hot/cold, small/big, high/low
They can count to five in spanish
They can both count to 15
They remember EVERYTHING, which is challenging, as even a mention of something like the zoo, is not forgotten :)
They know red means stop, green means go, yellow means slow down
They know the days of the week
They know all their basic colors and now we are working on colors like gray/beige, etc
They know shapes
They know how to use my iPod touch!

They were healthy for a few weeks, but have started up with running/stuffy noses again. We started swim classes too and took them for 6 weeks. I think they really liked it. All we really did was sing songs and get them used the water, jumping in, etc. Emma went under up to the top of her ears! Madelyn can't go under because of her tubes. She had one removed, as it was working it's way out and causing her some issues with the wax build-up. I guess it takes some time for the hole to heal after it's removed.

The girls saw their first parade on Memorial day and really enjoyed it. They loved seeing all the fire trucks!

Oh, and we raised over $1300 for the March of Dimes walk this year!

That's our update! As I say, almost every time I do post, I really wish I posted more often, as I would love to remember every single day with these peanuts and their accomplishments.

Best.Birthday.Ever.

Although turning 38 isn't the best feeling, what is incredible is sharing it with the girls. This year, they totally get "birthdays" and LOVE them. They couldn't wait to show me the cupcake they made with Grandma and to sing to me a day early. This morning, they couldn't wait to give the cards they colored in with daddy.

If you can hang to the end of the video, it's my favorite part :)