day 3...

yippee! What a big boy!! And a happy mom! Who knew I'd be having so many chats in small bathroom stalls hunkered down on the floor while thinking it's all good!?!

2 days and IKEA!!!

I'm so excited I could just pee!!!
IKEA is coming IKEA is coming!!! Yep, they're going to build an IKEA just west of Park Meadows mall, down in my neck of the woods!!! No start date yet, but I'm content with just knowing that it is coming and I can watch it being built with my own little eyes!!! I've been squealling all morning like a little dorky girl!
AND! Andrew has going poop 2 days in a row on the potty and says he's going to today also. Yay!
Pretty good day for me!

Andrew Update... (i know, tmi. but it's my blog!)

So we’ve taken away all of his big boy toys, underwear, video games, tv, etc. and as he has continued to poop in his pants, we asked him what else we were going to take away so he’s lost some books, his chair at the table (booster chair now) and finally Daddy went to his beloved pacifier (nuka). He would be sad about things for a few minutes and then seem to be ok. Until we got to the nuka. He was pretty upset when it came to bedtime and he didn’t get to have it, we talked it through while he cried so he totally understood why.
So we’ve had a few more poop sits the last few days and he’s even initiated a few (finally!). Yesterday he woke me up from my nap to tell me that he was sitting on the potty – yay!!! So he got some skittles when we went to the store to reward him for sitting on his own. We had a looong nap yesterday so he was still up late last night and about 11:15 he told me he had to pee and I told him ok, then he came back into my room and whispered in my ear… “mommy, mommy… I just went poop in the potty!” I flew out of bed to see and sure enough! That naked little boy had done it all by himself!!! There was a major happy dance in the middle of the night in our house last night!! We even woke up Daddy!
So he’s earned back some big boy privileges for today but he knows he has to earn them again for tomorrow. He already sat on the potty this morning on his own to make sure he didn’t have any poop and he says he’s really proud of himself.
I can't tell you how relieved and hopeful this mommy is today! I had a long thankful prayer last night about this boy and how he's finally seeming to turn the corner. I'm trying not to have my hopes up too high, but this is pretty darn exciting!!

Where have you been???

Well, I've been MIA for a long time it seems!
Summer has just been racing along and now preschool starts on Thursday. Preschool??? How can I be ready for Preschool??? Now I have to get him there by 9, all dressed with a lunch and clean face and all? Whew, that will be a fun challenge!
Although this week is full of challenges. Since Andrew is STILL refusing to poop on the potty, we're going to treat him like a 2 year old until he decides to be a big boy. So all big boy toys are gone and all other big boy privileges. Fun for mom. This just has to work!
I had a great staff retreat weekend, very relaxing, interesting about the church plant (lots to think & pray about there...) and challenging to my walk. I'm also reading "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World" with my friend Laura which tied into the messages from this weekend.
"Come to Me, and I will give you rest" I really want that rest but He says COME to Me - I have to come to Him first. Sure seems like that there isn't time or energy to come to Him, but it is the only way to get that true rest. Doesn't make sense in my brain, but my soul longs for it. I can't even get to the next part about the yokes yet, I'm still processing the rest part :-)
Anyway, I love you all and have to be off, just wanted to fill in something here before I jump back on the roller coaster of life!

Nadeen tagged me...

A - Attached or single: Attached. Happily!
B - Best Friend: Hmm, lots of really good ones! Maybe my mom??
C - Cake or Pie: I think cake, but I can't pass up a good chocolate pie!
D - Day of the Week: Saturday
E - Essential Item: cell phone,
F - Favorite Color: Blue
G - Gummi Bears or Gummi Worms: Bears if these are the choices. Cokes & Cherries are actually my favorite gummi's!
H - Hair Product: time to actually do my hair!
I - Indulgences: really nice yarn
J - January or July?: Actually I like May or Sept - I'm a cheater!
K - Kids: Andrew & Katie of course!
L - Life is incomplete without: good friends and lots of love
M - Marriage Date: April 13
N - Number of Siblings: 1 sister - Debbie
O - Oranges or Apples: Granny Smith Apples
P - Phobias or Fears: big snakes, my parents dying
Q - Quote: "The most important thing she's learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one." Jill Churchill
R - Reason To Smile: Andrew & Katie playing together, or both playing with Dad in the back yard
S - Season: Spring AND Fall, I'm going with Nadeen on this one!!
T - Tag Three: Debbie, Amber, Kendra/Tina
U- Unknown fact about me: I was on the cover of a magazine. Um, I impeached a president? (of our sorority!)
V - Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: Definitely a carnivore!
W - Worst Habit: Not doing things right away
X - Rays or Ultrasounds: I'm going to choose neither!
Y - Your favorite food: Right now, the bison bolognese dish at Cafe Jordano, but I like lots of stuff!
Z - Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Getting out of my funk!

So I've been in a bit of a funk lately. There's only so much mental energy you can focus on getting your boy to poop in the potty (although he has done it once so far - Happy Dances all around!!!) and then the let down after VBS busyness and traveling and a messy house and way too much laundry and Aaron working a lot has brought me down a bit. I haven't even had anything I want to knit!

So I'm working to get myself out of it now. I cleaned a bathroom, went to tae bo twice this week, I'm making Andrew pick up legos and I'm tackling laundry. AND I had some retail therapy in the form of yarn, books and pattern shopping online! So now I have 4-5 projects I can start on now or very soon! whee!!

I'll do this on in different colors...

And this one in the same blues.

And I bought yarn online to start on this one - a whole knitted Nativity scene!

Andrew

Nadeen inspired me to go ahead and blog about this.
My andrew is 3.5, he'll be 4 in August. He will not go poo in the potty. I've bribed, threatened, pleaded, cleaned out, everything and he will not go in the potty. We are seeing an elimination specialist so he's taking miralax, ex-lax & mineral oil & doing a poop sit in the afternoon & getting check marks towards a goal. he also knows he'll get a lego ship & indy motorcycle when he (ever) goes poo on the potty but nope, nothing. He (and I, I guess) have gotten lazy and he's back to wearing pull ups only because his poo is pretty much liquid so now he's not even pee'ing in the potty. ugh.
So today i decided no video game unless he wears undies. Which he did and proceeded to pee "just barely" on the couch and the floor. fun for mommy! I threatened to take away the game if he ever did it again AND put him in baby diapers instead of pullups and he promised it won't happen.
But I am just so stinking tired of this! Why won't this child poo in the potty?!?!? He has to go to prek in the fall!
Ok, rant over, off to get more things done and check on the couch.