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When it comes to potty training I consider my children to be "potty trained" when they are able to stay dry and clean during awake time and go to the bathroom in the potty during those times. I start potty training my children when they are very young (you can see my potty training tips here! ) and the ability to stay dry and clean during sleep is not something they can simply learn to do. The body has to develop enough for their bladders to hold it while sleeping. So while I focus on potty training at young ages, I do not put any focus on nap or night training until they are older. Even though I didn't "push" nap and night training, both of my older children were both in panties/underwear for sleep before 2.5 years old. Here are some tips I've used when nap and night training: 1. Use the Potty: It's SUPER important for the child to go to the potty right before going to sleep. We would do all of our bedtime routine (brush teeth, read stor...
Tess's 13th week of life was from Thursday Oct 23rd through Wednesday October 29th. She was 12 weeks old during this week. Nursing: Bottle was a BIG issue on our beach trip. She simply refused. We realized she'd drink just enough to be satisfied (like 2 oz) and then quit. It was very, very difficult and frustrating for me. But it also forced me to figure out how to nurse her in situations where I typically wouldn't. I nursed her on the beach and in the car this week with ease! I am not anti-nursing in public...it's just not something I'm personally comfortable doing so for me to do these things was a big deal! I am SO THANKFUL for my blog! I'm always glad to hear when it helps others...but I'm especially excited when it's helpful for me and this week it really was. With the bottle issues I went back and realized that BOTH Kye and Britt struggled with the bottle at this age! I think it must be a common thing? Of course they didn't straigh...
This year we were pretty late going to the pumpkin patch! Zach had been traveling for work and we went to the beach so we literally went and got a pumpkin 4 days before Halloween! At least this year it didn't rot ;) With Tess's bottle issues we decided to go to the pumpkin patch before her 5:00 feeding. We parked in the parking lot and let the big kids sit on the floor of the van and watch a short letter factory movie while I nursed Tess in the car. Then we hopped out, got our pumpkins, and got back in time for her next nap! It all went really well and everyone was in a good mood for the pumpkin fun :) For our family we pick out one BIG pumpkin to carve and then let each child have a tiny pumpkin to keep in their rooms. So thankful someone offered to take a family photo for us!!! Small pumpkins :) The patch we go to has some games set up which the kids enjoy so we tried not to rush them too much and let them have some fun! ...
