Potty Training

After a few failed attempts we are trying the potty training thing again. I tried a few times and it ended up in both of us being irritated with one another. She then took it upon herself in July but that only lasted a month and she was back to diapers. She started going to the bathroom on her own again last week so we set the date for Monday the 3rd of January to "stop wearing diapers". She will still wear them when she's sleeping though. So far she's been doing pretty good. We are trying the "get a sticker every time you go potty" method. We had to go out and run some errands so we put a pull up on. The errands took twice as long as we were expecting and she had an accident. Of course I didn't have any new underwear or pull ups but I did have diaper. At first she didn't want to put it on but after a few minutes trying to convince her she clapped her hands and shouted "yeah" because she was going to have to wear a diaper.

The seventh of January, five days into the potty training, and she had an accident free day! She's had two accident free nights as well. Two more days like this, it's all we need (this is what mommy decided). The next thing is to teach her to completely finish before she tries to flush. She gets around 5 flushes each time otherwise. I think it was Wednesday and she looked where we keep the diapers and shouted "goodbye diapers" and waved goodbye.

The nice thing about having some time home to help is that Edgar can't just get frustrated and put her in diapers. If he does that when I go back to work then he will have problems because I refuse to buy her more diapers and he will have to start all over with her from scratch.

On the 10th it had been three days completely accident free. I'm calling it official now and hope it sticks this time. It looks more promising so I think we won't have a problem. Mommy is so excited and Lexi now can wear necklaces because she's a big girl (it was our deal if she went three days without an accident). She even wears undies to bed. Good job Lexi!!!

What a Day

Last night I told Edgar I had a bad feeling about today. Now the day is almost over and I know why. Around noon we had to go out to run some errands. We got the kids in the car, turned the key and nothing happened. The battery was dead (for the second time in a week). I called my sister who lives about a block away and she said she would send her husband as soon as he got back from taking things to the city dump. About thirty minutes later he was at my house. My car was in our parking spot facing inwards with cars on either side so we had to try and push the care out of the spot. I put the car in neutral and shut the door so it wouldn't get hit and my car locked. The dead battery caused my alarm to short and lock my car with my key in it.

My brother in law made some calls an then went to get a hanger. After a few tries with that we found more help and luckily were able to get my door unlocked. Two men tried to push my car out and it wouldn't budge. My brother in law then has to pull my car out with his truck at an angle because there is a building behind the car.

We finally got the car charged and I headed to Auto Zone to get the battery checked which was, of course, a "bad battery". I bought a new battery and called my sister (because she's good with cars) who said she could change the battery. I started my car and it was even more dead than it was before. I called my sister back who sent her husband again. (They have a baby so one of them has to stay there). He came and changed my battery and I was good to go.

As we were driving around with our errands a warning that my steering power fluid was low came on. This wouldn't have been so bad except it came on the month before and I had just topped of everything two weeks before.We continued with our next errand to get my husband's prescription and the pharmacy we usually go to of course did not carry it. My son was screaming so we had to stop at my mom's house so I could feed him before we headed to a different pharmacy. When we got to the next pharmacy they did not carry it either but luckily they were able to find it at another store so we could pick it up the next day.

We made it home about 8 pm. Our two hour errands ended up taking my whole day. Despite all the problems we had there were the positives. I am grateful that my brother-in-law was around to help me, twice. I am grateful that I did not have to pay for a lock smith. I am grateful that my mom lives by where we had to do errands so that I could feed the baby. I am grateful that we were able to find Edgar's prescription at the end of the day. Despite the bad there was a lot of good and I believe they were blessings because I was definitely praying and thinking "trust Him".

[Digamos no tuvimos un día muy fácil. El auto estuvo con problemas. No pudimos encontrar la receta para Edgar. Pero al fin del día veo muchas bendiciones del Señor. Hubo personas para ayudarnos y al fin encontramos lo que buscamos

Family Holiday Party

I'm not really into setting New Year's resolutions because I never follow through with them and then I feel like I don't have to try again until the next year. I am going to put a goal of trying to do my blog more often. I hope Edgar's family will look at it occasionally so they can stay up to date with what we are doing.

Today we had a Holiday party with my family at my mom's house. It was fun and almost everyone was there. We did a white elephant and I think most people enjoyed it. After that we played some games. I really enjoy playing games that make you think and that we can laugh at because I think people can enjoy themselves no matter if they "win or lose".

Trishelle and Racheal are wearing antlers they won from the White Elephante. (Trishelle y Racheal llevan  cuernos que recibieron del elefante blanco)

(No me gusta poner resoluciones del año nuevo porque si fracaso siento que no tengo que tratar de nuevo hasta el próximo año. Pero si voy a poner una meta de hacer el blog más a menudo. Espero que la familia de Edgar lo mire de vez y cuando para que puedan saber lo que hacemos.

Hoy tuvimos una fiesta de los feriados con mi familia en la casa de mi mama. Fue divertido y casi todos estaban. Hicimos regalos de cambios (elefante blanco) y por lo general todos les gusto lo que recibieron. Después jugamos unos juegos. Me encantan los juegos que se hace pensar y reír porque es más fácil disfrutarlos no importa si se gane o pierde.)