Thursday, January 29, 2015

Father Daughter Dance

 

It was that time of year again! Time for the Father Daughter dance. The girls look forward to this every year and it is so fun to see them get so excited about it! This year was really special because all three of the big girls got to go with their daddy. I even joked with them about how jealous I was that they got to go with him and I didn't. Janie was so excited that it was finally her year to get to go too!

They love to dress up fancy and have me do their hair a special way. I even let them wear a little makeup since it was such a special occasion and they thought that was pretty awesome! We even found some special jewelry for them to wear as well. They had such a fun night taking turns dancing with their dad. I feel so grateful that I have such a great husband who loves his daughters so much! It takes a special guy to have five daughters and I know Heavenly Father knew Kevin was that guy that would cherish all these little girls!

 

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Russy Gets Potty Trained!!

I'm not going to lie, potty training may be my least favorite things about being a parent. I dread it with a dread that can't be described! I know that may sound dramatic, but I just really hate it. Because of this I just kept delaying doing it with Russy. I knew he wasn't ready for a while but then after that I just kept coming up with excuses why it wasn't the right time.

But after the holidays I knew that I couldn't delay it any longer. I really didn't want three in diapers at the same time, so we decided to wait and do it a day when Kevin would be home becuase I knew it might be better to have kevin help since Russy is the first boy I have potty trained.

We did the same program that we did with all the girls where we do the intense training all day and don't let them wear pull-ups anymore, but this time I knew we were going to have to go somewhere that night and I wasn't going to torture myself like that so we put a pull-up on him for that.

Russy picked up the peeing pretty quickly and it was funny because he had to go to standing up to pee like his dad pretty much from the beginning. He started not having accidents from a few days in, but the pooping was another story. He just would not poop on the potty and would only do it in his pants for about the first week. and the after that he wouldn't poop at all and was just holding it in. He didn't poop for 6 straight days even though we gave him a ton of laxatives. I was starting to freak out a bit because he wasn't acting like he even needed to poop at all. So eventually we had to give him an enema to get him going. It was such a relief when he finally went. after that he had a couple really nasty pooping his pants days becuase of all of the laxatives we had to give him. But after that things got better and he actually started going poop on the toilet.

It was such a relief when he started going on his own without me having to remind him. Now he is going all the time on his own! It is such a great day when that happens. It is such a huge relief that we have another one done. Just two more to go!

A couple of funny things about his training. He still thinks he should get treats when he goes pee on the potty, and since it was such a big deal for him to go poop we got him a special toy ( a big bazooka gun) for when he finally did go, he started to think that he should get a new toy everytime he goes poop. He is so silly. He also wouldn't let me take a picture of him in his underwear so this picture on the toilet was the best I could get.

 

All About Jane- 6 years

My sweet little Janie is sure growing up! She is 6 now! It's crazy to think that when we moved here to California she was 18 months old! That seems like just yesterday to me and now here she is in Kindergarten and six!!

She has done really well in Kindergarten and has picked up reading and math and everything else really easily. I am really proud or how well she has done going for so long too, she goes from 10 am until three pm, when she rides her bike home with her sisters. She has made friends really well and even has a cute little boy named Maxim that just loves her so much! Jane is really different than my other two, in that she is who she is for everybody. There is no show for her teacher and then she is different at home. I went to Parent teacher conference and I was expecting no problems because that is how the other two girls are at school. But the teacher said she was having some problems with Jane just shutting down if she had to talk to her about anything. She also would just ignore another student if they were assigned to work together and Jane didn't feel like she wanted to work with them. We had to have a little talk about treating others the way we want to be treated. I sure hope that helped. I would be so sad if it was my child that was making other kids feel sad.

Jane is also going through a bit of a lazy phase right now. Suffice it to say it is a darn good thing that she goes to the later kindergarten rather than the early one. It is still hard to get her motivated and ready to go by 10 am. She doesn't like to do things like clean up after herself or make her bed. It is seriously pulling teeth!!

There are such great things about our Janie girl though, she is so sweet and loving to her siblings. Especially Russy, he just loves her so much and she is so sweet to play his boy games with him. Annie loves her too, and Janie is so nice to share her stuffed animals with Anne, because they mean a lot to Jane. For her birthday she went to build-a-bear and made herself a pretty white bear that she named Sugar. She always has to have an animal to sleep with.

A funny thing about Jane that she has been since she was little is so very stubborn about the clothes that she wears and the way I do her hair. She has a ton of really cute clothes that have been handed down to her and yet she will only wear a few things, most in my opinion are not very cute either!! It drives me a little crazy! She also is very particular about how she wants her hair done and I can never convince her otherwise!! Oh well!

One funny story about Jane that just kind of sums her up: Every night after family prayer we take turns saying something nice about the person who said the prayer. Well one night I had said the prayer and when it was Jane's turn she said "I got nothing!" It was too funny for me to really feel bad about it. She does usually say the same thing which is " I like how mom makes us really good meals. " that makes me feel good becuase I do try to make them good meals to eat. We just love our silly Janie goose and we are so glad that she is in our family!!