potty training/when the boys are away...

It was a big day in our house...

The last few days, Cate has been vetoing diapers. No, seriously. Won't keep them on. Cries when I put them on her, sneaks them off every time I turn around. This would be a problem, except... well, the girl WILL go potty on the potty.

Time to potty train, huh?

So today, instead of fighting her, I just put her in her panties from the moment she was up. 

And for three hours, she stayed dry. 

I took her potty twice and she went, and the third time, she took herself. As in, went into the bathroom, climbed on her little potty, came out yelling, "Yay, Cate! I potty!", and sure enough, she had.

I put her in a diaper to run errands and then for a nap. 

After nap (which she apparently removed the diaper before falling asleep, thus drenching all blankets in crib), I put her back in undies and she pretty quickly had an accident. I figured the morning was a fluke, so I just threw on a diaper and was calling it a day. (Reminder: kidney infection, 9 months pregnant)

Twenty minutes later, she tells me in a panic that she 'needs to potty on duh potty', so I tell her to go. She runs (literally) there, takes off her diaper and comes out hollering that she 'poot!'. Sure enough, she had. I put her back in panties, and lo and behold she stays dry and takes herself until going to bed at 8 p.m.

And I didn't take any pain medicine today, so this is reality, I'm not hallucinating.(that's a joke, btw. I mean, I didn't take pain medicine, but I wasn't taking anything strong enough to make me hallucinate).

Way to go, Baby Girl!!! I'm crossing my fingers that this is a trend that continues and maybe just maybe I'll have a potty trained not-even-2 year old before baby mcg #3 makes its appearance. Woooooo!!!

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So... last week was chaos and the weekend was chaos and Jordan was gone a ton. We're majorly seeing it in Corban's behavior and he's desperately wanting Daddy (and Daddy is missing his fam, too!). Jordan had a meeting to plan a winter backpacking trip tonight and decided to tote Corban along. I decided Cate and I would soak up our girl time and celebrate her amazing day by making her first ever batch of cookies. She loved it. And I loved it. And I took lots of pictures, so here ya go:

 

 and after making cookies, we started 'washing dishes'...

 

 that is... until Cate decided dumping water was more fun. So then we learned how to clean the floor:

  

Finally, the cookies were done:

 

and then, my sweet baby Cate was ready for bed. 

 There's something so precious about having a daughter...

something- lots of somethings- so precious about our daughter.

I love so much who she is becoming- that fiery, sweet, tender, wild little personality she has.

I can't believe she's just weeks, maybe days away from being a big sister. I want to soak up the time we have left with her as our baby. 

Oh Cate Taylor... so sweet to be your Mama.

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Off to really  wash dishes now.

:)