A potty update

Well it’s been almost two months since we had our Potty Day and made the switch to underwear. It’s been a long and bumpy road and we are still riding the ride! Noah is doing really well with peeing in the potty. At first, I would have to remind him every 15-20 minutes to go. But now, he will say “Mommy, I have to go potty!” or sometimes he will just go to the potty all by himself! He rarely has a tee-tee accident at home now (school and church are a different story some days, though!) Last night, he even started standing up to pee! :)

But then there’s the poo.

I can count on one hand the times I have personally seen Noah poop in the potty. He just won’t do it. He will go in his undies and then will either tell me he did it or I’ll smell it. It is SO frustrating. He has always had poop issues, ever since he was a baby. We have tried EVERYTHING to get him to poop in the potty…rewarding him with candy or stickers or toys when he even attempts to poop in the potty, punishing him for pooping in his underwear (spanking, time-out, or no tv), sitting him on the potty for 30 minutes at a time while reading a book or playing on the iPhone, telling him how much we dislike washing poopy underwear, telling him that big boys poop in the potty, letting him watch us take a poo and then watch it go down as we flush (gross! ha!), not saying anything when he poops in his undies and just changing him, etc. You name it, we’ve done it. And if you ask him why he poops in his underwear, he says “I don’t know.” He knows he’s supposed to do it on the potty, he just won’t.

I talked to his pediatrician about his lack of pooping in the potty and she suggested that he may be holding it in because he doesn’t want to go in the potty, therefore making him constipated. So we tried giving him Miralax and that just gave him diarrhea!

So right now, we are sending two changes of clothing a day to preschool (after two accidents, they put a pull-up on him for the remainder of the day) and doing a whole lot of laundry. I’m really at a loss on this one. Should I just be patient and pray that one day it will click with him? Or is there something else I can do? Another problem I have is that he can’t move up to the next room at preschool in August if he isn’t completely potty trained so I feel pressured to make sure he is 100% trained by then.

HELP! Any and all advice is welcome! :)

It Is Well

Yesterday I had the privilege of singing with two great friends. The Holy Spirit filled the room with His presence and it was just an awesome experience. And luckily, I had a friend that videoed it for me! (The video comes in a little late to the song.) I hope it blesses you today!

Videos

I started going through the videos on my phone and decided I better upload them to YouTube before something happened to them! Some of them are pretty old!

One Sunday morning while I was at praise team rehearsal, Noah decided he needed a microphone, too!

Noah’s aunt Tay Tay gave him a chocolate cake covered in marshmellow. He had never had anything like that before. He was amazed!

Noah says Merry Christmas!

When Noah was little, every time we tried to video him he would do this weird thing with his tongue. Every. Time!

Noah’s second birthday. Singing to himself!

 

Noah recites his Bible verse!

Noah helping Daddy carve our pumpkin in 2012.

My sweet boy is growing up too fast!

Easter 2013

I’m turning into such a bad blogger! Over a month and not one single post! I know, I know!

The Saturday before Easter, we had an egg hunt with our Sunday school class. Noah loves to hunt eggs! His new favorite color right now is pink, so he always runs straight for the pink eggs!

I love the picture below. He just looks so little bitty! :)

The bigger kids there let Noah find most of the eggs since he was the youngest. Sweetness! Noah is loving hiding all those eggs all over our living room now!

After the egg hunt, it was snack time! Cupcakes are his favorite (well the icing is, he doesn’t really like cake). Pink, of course!

Easter morning, Noah got to see what the Easter bunny left him. His favorite things from his basket are his new Action Chugger (from Chuggington) and his Lightning McQueen sunglasses.

And our family picture before church…

We had a great weekend, spending time with family and celebrating our Risen Lord!

Noah’s birthday party

Noah wanted to start his birthday RIGHT, so for breakfast we went to Waffle House and had a chocolate chip waffle and some ‘coffee’. Right now, he loves to pretend that whatever he is drinking is coffee. I guess I’m starting to wear off on him! :)

Then we went to Noah’s cousin’s bowling birthday party. He was interested in bowling when it was his turn, but there were a lot of kids there so he had to wait a while in between turns. So he ended up just running around the place most of the time.

Then after nap, it was time for Noah’s party! I knew he would have fun getting to run around in the gym.

But he was most excited about playing in the big foam pit! He would have just stayed there all day if we would let him. He loved walking on the balance beam and jumping off into the pit.

It took him a long time to decide what kind of party he wanted. We debated between Shrek, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Big Al. He finally said he wanted a football party!

He doesn’t really like cake (what is wrong with the kid??) so I made sure there would be a Big Al made of icing on the cake just for him! He LOVED it!

He got so many presents and had so many friends come to celebrate his big day!

When we got home, he got to see his present from Mommy and Daddy! A blue PowerWheel truck!

His favorite thing to do when he gets home from school every day is to ride up and down the street in our neighborhood!

Happy birthday Noah!!

Saturday my little fellow turned 3 years old! He is getting so big and so smart! I just love him to pieces!

I mean, for real. So stinkin’ cute! Friday, my sister and I took cupcakes to school to celebrate Noah’s birthday with his classmates. Just say the word cupcake in a room full of 2 and 3 year olds and you are instantly awesome!

See?? :)

I have several party pictures to show you this week, but for today I am going to post Noah’s annual birthday questions! I started this tradition last year and am SO glad that I did. I loved looking back at his answer’s this year!

1. What is your favorite color? blue

2. What is your favorite toy? a tractor

3. What is your favorite fruit? strawberries

4. What is your favorite tv show? Barney (This is a new thing at our house. He watches Barney at school, so I bought him a cheap dvd of Barney and now that’s ALL he wants to watch.)

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? a sandwich (I send him an Uncrustable pb&j every day to school. He loves them!)

6. What is your favorite outfit? a Big Al one

7. What is your favorite game? Rudolph (I have no idea on this one!)

8. What is your favorite snack? nuffin’ (I get this answer a lot when I ask him what he wants to eat.)

9. What is your favorite animal? a lion

10. What is your favorite song? Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

11. What is your favorite book? Mickey Mouse

12. Who is your best friend? Noland

13. What is your favorite cereal? Cheerio’s

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride in the powerwheel (We got him a powerwheel truck for his birthday!)

15. What is your favorite drink? chocolate milk

16. What is your favorite holiday? decorating (I asked him about Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day…he said, no…decorating!)

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? my blankey

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? suckers (I promise I don’t feed him suckers for breakfast!)

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? 38 (At this point, I think he was just tired of answering my questions! )

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? baby Jesus

So there you have it! Hopefully I can post some party pictures this week!

Let’s catch up

So Noah got to experience his first snow! He was at school when the snow first started coming down and his teacher sent me this picture. I was a little sad that I wasn’t with him when he first saw it, but school got cancelled later on in the day so we were able to experience it together! He didn’t really want to play in it. He just liked looking at the snow and asking “What’s that snow doing on the ______?” (insert grass, house, road, car…)

This was BIG TIME snow in Alabama! :)

Here is my little helper at work!

The hubs got a new job (yay!) and started this week. He loves it!

We took Noah to the mall to get Brad some new work clothes. He was fascinated with the Crock-Pots and toaster ovens. He kept ‘cooking muffins’ while we were there!

My middle nephew celebrated his 9th birthday at Super Skate. Noah had a BLAST and by the end of the party, he didn’t even need us to hold his hand as he was ‘skating’.

Unfortunately for Noah, the only skates they had in his size were PINK. But since he had on a pink shirt, he just rocked it! He actually likes the color pink pretty well so he didn’t mind at all.

We finally got Noah’s twin sized bed put together and he’s sleeping in it now. His comforter has dump trucks, police cars, helicopters, fire trucks, etc. on it and he LOVES it. It wasn’t my first choice but hey, it’s not my room!

Hubs and I had a date recently. We went geocaching as usual!

As far as the potty training situation goes, I now have an official plan. My sister referred me to this website so next Friday, I’m taking off work and we are throwing out the pull-ups and having potty training boot camp at our house! Woo hoo!!

We also have a little boy that is turning THREE this Saturday! I will not cry, I will not cry, I will not cry.