Free Ice Cream and more

Today was free ice cream cones at Dairy Queen. Now, my Utah experience with free things is that it will be so packed busy that it's not worth it, but my Texas experience with free stuff is pretty short to no lines! So off we went to DQ!

Conner loved his ice cream cone!

 

Love me a sleepy boy!

Isaac was crying - this was pre-rolling over - so Conner took him some books to help him be happy. He is such a loving, kind big brother! 

 Conner likes to ask to sit on the potty. He never really goes, but he will sit there for 10 seconds before he says he's done. Lately he's been pretty good about telling me when he has pooped his diaper. I really didn't think he was ready to be potty trained, but thought I'd give it a try one day to see where he was at.

 I bought training underwear, you know the thick ones that absorb a lot. I even read about a lady who added extra flannel into it to help soak up the pee and then a cute waterproof layer on the outside to keep it in the underwear. I'd also heard of people who give their kids tons to drink to help them need to go to the bathroom more often, to give them more chances of being successful on the potty.

I had 6 training underwear, gatorade, chocolate chips (reward for success) and a potty that I'd put in the family room while he watched tv. It turned out to be one of those days where as a mother I just laughed all morning long at myself for thinking this was a good idea.

The potty training was suppose to be an all day thing. By 10:30am he had already peed in all of his underwear and we were done. Let's look at the positive side, we lasted 3 hours! I decided the idea of tons of fluids wasn't so great. He peed a ton! I think he had just as many successes as wet underwear. And I even ended up cleaning pee off the tile floor because he peed so much.

I gave Conner ONE chocolate chip, and this is what he looked like. How do you do this? If somebody gives me one chocolate chip it's in my mouth, I don't want to miss out on a single bit of it!

 Last Sunday Ammon was at meetings which left me by myself getting me and the boys ready for church. It felt like a HUGE win when I got Conner in his church clothes - it was a wrestling match. Let me tell you! I decided to take a picture of my victory, and he was already off, hammering away! This picture captures Conner so well! Active, happy, fun!