Long time no see.....

It is already two months since my last post about potty training. 

Well summer was here and time inside was limited to minimum. When outside, kids are much happier and calmer and they sleep better, so whenever we could we went out.

I'm not going to write long stories about what happened to us during these months.

But: Alex is great without nappies and has two new teeth and Jessie is walking, nearly running. No more dirty knees :D

We are still working on building good relationship between Alex and Jessie. Some days are great, some more challenging.

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Potty training 2

So just one day after I published our potty training post here I decided to check with Alex about her night time nappy.

She said straight away that she doesn't want it. 

Even though I was a little bit worried, I left it with her.

I only changed the sheets on her bed to a waterproof ones. Just in case.

And guess what....it's nearly a week and no night accidents.

Alex stays most of the time in her bed during the night and uses potty in the morning.

She got up to use potty at night only twice.

The only thing is that she calls for me during the night, because she wakes up sometimes. The reason might be the potty training, or maybe bad dreams. Who knows, but she won't tell me what woke her up.

I just hope it will sort itself out soon.

Jessie sleeps better now even though he had vaccination yesterday. He woke up last night twice as well, but it looks better today.

So here we go, we have one little lady home without nappies already and one really fast growing boy who climbs everywhere and has to sit at a table on a big chair like the rest of us.

Potty training

So it finally happened. Alex decided to try the potty.

I wanted her to try it before, but she wasn't really interested. 

And I wasn't ready for it either. I was stressed from the constant remarks from people around, that she should be without nappies already and I knew she feels the same. We both didn't like comments about it. 

In my mind I set up the right time. Summer! So she can walk around naked or in really light clothes and won't be home all the time, so there won't be much cleaning in case of accidents.

It's not summer yet, but the weather last week was great and when we stayed home alone I decided to check with her.

I asked her if she wants to wear skirt outside without nappy, so she can pee at the grass. I wasn't pushy and probably not even convincing, but she said yes. 

I took her to the kitchen where the potties are and then outside and showed her how to pee on grass.

She wanted to try to pee on the grass too, but it wasn't her time yet. While in a sand she sat on an ant and it bit her right to one cheek, so I changed the strategy and clothes and gave her underpants. Showed her again and in half an hour she went to that spot and did it. 

We washed 6 pairs of underpants that evening, but she managed to use potty twice.

To my surprise the following morning, she woke up and went to the potty right away. We changed the clothes and Alex didn't even bother to ask me or tell me that she needed to use it again. She went straight there and even cleaned it up with me. And so it continued that day with only two little accidents.

Day 3 was great as well, except a poop which went down on a floor. We even managed a car journey without nappy.

Same was day 4 but without the poop issue. 

It's a week and Alex has nappy at night only, but it's half of the mornings dry. 

I feel much better now knowing she's able to do it all by herself. She tells me most of the times, that she has to go and that's fine. 

When she'll be a pro, I'll try Jessie as well. It would be great if the nappy period will be over after this summer.

I'm one really proud mom. I was so afraid that I messed it up earlier, because Alex didn't want to cooperate, but she just needed to get there at her own pace.

We still have work to do to sort out the pooping, but now I'm positive this will be done soon.

Jessie is walking

Just a few days ago I talked with our grandma about Jessie. We agreed that he's cautious. He loves walking while somebody holds his hands, but he didn't want to let go. Not even standing alone. Just a few seconds next to a bed or chair, but no longer than 5 seconds in a row.

So on Saturday as my sister in law arrived for a visit we spent nearly whole day outside. It was finally lovely weather and when the sun was out it was really hot. Except there were some clouds, so from time to time the cold wind with the clouds created unpleasant temperature change.

My hubby took care of the growing grass in the morning, so we could sit down on a picnic blanket later that day and enjoy the family time. Alex was running up and down the garden, watering flowers and trees and Jessie was crawling around.

I took him on the blanket and asked him to stand in front of me. I just wanted him to let go and stand there for a while. He usually grasps anything around or sits down. 

He didn't do either. He was just standing there, looking around. Jessie was on a walk with granddad, so they didn't see it. I asked Jessie to walk to me and he did two steps by himself. Nobody was holding his hands. So I just tried again. Placed him in front of me and asked him to walk. He repeated two steps again and again until he managed 4 steps in a row before falling at me, I always catched him. 

So here we go....Jessie is walking. I know it's not such a big deal, because he does only a few steps and then sits down or fell, but for him it is definitely big thing. We are now practising every day and he managed even 6 steps once, but two or tree are standard now. In a few weeks he'll be maybe running :D

Alex will be in a trouble then....he will follow her everywhere. Crazy and exciting time begins!

Study study study

I just can't stop studying. 

It's so interesting. When you are in school and you are required to study, you don't like it. It's necessary evil and you want to be out of school. Well at least I was like this.

I wanted to continue to study eventually, but wasn't accepted to the school, so I went to work. I didn't even think of trying to get back to school until I was 25. I started again and was quite good, but I met my hubby and all changed. I moved countries and my school didn't support external students much, so I didn't finish.

But then something changed. I decided to work on my career and wanted to build knowledge. So I started to study in Ireland and finished my courses there. The first ones where linked to my job. Facility management, project management and auto cad. All required in my work and possibly helping me to get better position....Well it didn't happen due to company changes, after that maternity leave, then another one, etc. Life find it's own way to go and this wasn't meant for me.

I started to study other subjects like holistic healing and other interesting courses. Even when we moved out of Ireland, I continued to look for some courses and when I started to think about getting a photography course I got one for free from online academy I attended before a few times.

While on this course I got a free membership and what I didn't expect I found a few more courses I wanted to do with them. Well a few is nearly 10 at the moment :D

And what happened during one course I really wanted to finish before my membership was up????
They gave us great offer, no one like me would refuse. So that's it, I'm in lifetime education program and finishing sports nutrition now. 

It's helping me with my workout groups and page as well. It is just incredible what life will bring to you when you ask for it the right way. I feel so motivated, so empowered and excited about it all.

So lets continue with my life......I have other lessons to attend :)

What is going on here?

I just woke up this morning with Jessie in my bed again. He was up 5:30am and I don't like to be up that early, so I took him with me and we slept for two more hours. Alex was sleeping even longer. Sometimes I think she's a Sleeping Beauty.

But what surprise waited for us outside???? Yesterday we went for a walk, it was a bit cold, but sunny and everything was green and lovely, birds singing, bees buzzing, lovely spring day.

This morning though......I looked out of the window and it was snowing. Not just a little snowflakes like frozen rain, but a big ones and it was snowing heavily. We didn't expect it and definitely not the fact that it was snowing a whole day until 8pm. There is such a huge amount of snow outside, that we can go and build a snowman again.

What will happen with our vegetable garden? Who knows, I just hope the snow will work as a pillow and all seeds will survive the cold weather. It would be a pity if they won't.

Alex and Jessie didn't mind the weather. We played inside, but I would prefer to take them out. Hopefully tomorrow we'll go to get some more fresh air.

It's nearly May and I didn't expect the snow to come. I had plans to meet with my workout groups outside and do a little bit of training, but all is wet, it's freezing cold and in the city it's raining instead. If we would meet up it could work out, but we wouldn't be able to take kids with us, so I had to arrange online training for them. I know some of them will do it, even though we have online challenge for 30 days, well now only 20 left, which keeps my girls busy everyday.

I really need better weather. I have to start running. Me and a few moms decided to go for an obstacle race in 4 weeks. This weather isn't helping us much. I was running only twice so far and need to get use to it as it's 10K race.

I just hope we get ready and won't be last at the finish line :D

First workout group meeting

So I have first workout group meeting with my local No Excuse Moms.

It was Wednesday afternoon and I drove there only with Alex as I had a little bit of admin work with the NEMs before we could start working out.

The weather day before was gorgeous. Sunny like in summer, warm and even the wind was comfortable, but the Wednesday was a different story. It was much colder, 10 degrees Celsius less and cloudy.

I arrived earlier and went to the playground with Alex. She played a little, but was really shy. When other NEMs arrived, we had to introduce ourselves, sign some paper work and start with the workout.

Alex was sitting in a buggy, I took it in case she will be tired and want to sleep and to carry all my stuff.

Other kids where running around, so some moms had to chase them, that's why we decided to go from the field right into the playground where we could close the gates and keep the kids inside. The only thing there was checking them when they decided to use sled or swings.

We laughed a lot and people were looking at us as we were crazy, but every comment they made I turned back at them and asked them to join us.

After the workout we played there with kids. Alex still didn't want to join the other kids there, but eventually she did and went to a sled. She loved it and didn't want to go home, same as her new friend. Well I call him friend, but she only smiled at him a few times, no talk though.

I know our kids live in a great place, with lot of nature and animals around, but they need other kids to play with.

I'm really happy I can get them meet others this way and shape up a little. Just can't wait for next meeting.

Alex wasn't play for that long there, but when we were nearly home, she fell asleep in a car. Hubby picked her up when we arrived and took her to bed, she was like a puppet. We woke her up, gave her dinner and half an hour later she was in bed again, sleeping like a little baby.

Jessie didn't go with us this time, but will join us next week. That will be even better fun.