Pantless Paradise!

It's a pantless paradise for Girl - not anyone else in this house!

I was having trouble with getting her to take her pants down for potty training, so I just decided - keep them off.  It's been working wonders.  She goes on the potty whenever I remind her to.  She even went on twice today without me telling her.  The first time I was upstairs emptying the dishwasher and when I came down she had gone in the potty!  Later I was changing laundry over and she was in there with me.  She decided to leave, which is normal, and when I came out she was carrying the potty cup to the bathroom to dump it.  I was SOOO  proud of her.  We even went on an outing to the grocery store today and she stayed accident free.  I did have a diaper on her just in case.  I was sure to put her on the potty before we left and again as soon as we got home.

She did have an accident last night on the couch, but we cleaned it up and moved on.  She hasn't had an accident since.

I should mention that her potty chair is in the living room.  I think it helps her remember to go on it when she sees it every time she turns around.  I plan to leave it out here for a week, then put it right outside the bathroom door for a week, then after that it will go back into the bathroom.  I am just SO proud of her.  I knew she could do it, so I blame myself a bit for not letting her go bottomless earlier to get the practice of going down.  Oh well, she's doing great now and I know it will continue!

Other things going on:
I was going to open up a container of milk for M and I looked at the date on it: 12/30/10.  WHAT?  I just bought it on the 1st.  Why was it even on the shelf. AHHHHH.  I was so frustrated.  So I packed up the kids and we headed to the grocery store to exchange it.  There was only one on the shelf that had a date in the future.  (1/9/11)  What the heck is going on at Cub.  This is the first time I've had this kind of issue.    I know that the organic/whole food section gets neglected, but SERIOUSLY expired milk on the floor.  That's pathetic.

I won a photo contest with a local diaper store.  Well, Matthew did.  Of course it was thanks to Christin and her campaigning.  :D  Thanks Christin.  I also have to thank all of my other friends and family that "liked" the facebook page and voted for him.  THANK YOU!  I plan to head to the store this week to get our prize.

I'm getting ready to sell off the newborn sized prefolds and covers!  It's kind of sad that my little baby is too big for them.  I tried putting one on him today (I didn't just try, I made it work) and it wasn't the best fit.  Time to upsize him to infant prefolds. Those are the same size Girl usually uses.  :*(  My baby is so big.

Speaking of Matthew getting big - he is in 6 month clothing already.  That's right, my 9 week old wears 6 month clothing.  I had a "3 month" pair of overalls on him yesterday and they were about 3 inches too short.  Sigh.  I made those work for the day too.  I wanted him to wear every new outfit he got at least twice and that was the last one.  :)  There are plenty of other 3 month clothes that I got from garage sales that he never wore.

I have all the newborn and 0-3 clothes packaged up and ready to be retired, but I'm not quite ready to retire the 3 month stuff.  I don't think I want to face that he's that big.  I also don't want to put those SUPER cute outfits out of sight.  Of course, he'll never fit into them, but still ...

Time to wrap this up, I'm going to try to sneak in my own nap while the kids are sleeping.  They don't ever sleep at the same time, it's wonderful!!!!