I know too much info about bodily functions but it is exciting that the nappies soon might be a thing of the past. Julia tonight insisted on going on the big big toliet as she calls it before bed. She was very insistant on doing a pooh. She did a wee wee, but after about 20mins nothing happened.
The only activity that seemed to happen was playing with toliet paper and pretending that she was busy doing things with it. I was just concerned that she did not fall off. I sat with her for a while and then had to call it quits as Lillian was in bed and so should Julia as well. However the dilema was, maybe she would do the pooh and if I put her into a nappy maybe she would do it there rather than in the toliet.
I took my chances and told her that she can let me know to change the nappy if that happens. Seemed to work out o.k, she went to sleep and have not heard a peep out of her.
Just so pleased that she is doing this on her own. Still hoping that Lillian will follow and I am sure it will happen. I also would like more regualrity of going to the loo. Seems to happen when she wants to, not when she needs to. So early days still, however it is good that she is wanting to do it.
Mum (their Nana) has an Elmo toy that is dressed as a chicken and does the chicken dance. This will get played to them as a good job, well done congrats after they do something on the potty or on the big big toliet. We will see. Hoping that this will work.
I will keep you all up to date on the outcome. I know, maybe you can live without knowing.
Lately the girls have been having a shower with me (mummy), as it gives them a wash and I also get a shower too. After this has occured and we are on our way to get into dry, fresh clothes Julia has done a wee wee. I explained that she can use the potty that I have all ready to go in the hall way just in case. I know sounds terrbile. But they are clean and as you expect with 2 little people you cannot know when you will need it. Also as I am wanting them to go to the potty and eventually get out of nappies, I want to get them used to doing it then graduate to the toliet.
To my amazement, Julia then took it upon herself to get the potty and do the rest of the wee wee in the potty. She was very pleased with herself and was rewarded with a sticker for her potty chart. She currently now has more stickers than Lillian. Lillian did sit on the potty today and the last couple of days when this happened, but nothing eventuated. I still think that it was a good try and the more it happens, the more likely it is that something will happen.
I was stressed out before and worried that the girls will not be toilet trained by 3 years of age, the reason I want that to be the magic number is the girls can then attend pre-school. Once enrolled in pre-school I have some more time for me, or anything else I may want to do. Even if it is probably cleaning.
I am just very pleased and proud that since I have backed off a bit, she is doing it on her own accord. Will see if it happens more often and if Lillian continues to follow. I can only keep on trying and see what happens.
Woolworthes at Leura opened on the 14th of April. I decided to go and visit to see what the new shopping experience was like. I can honestly say, that I was amazed at the selection, the displays and just the whole experience. Not sure what it was or if it is just new, but I really enjoyed it. That is quite a thing coming from me as lately it is a chore to go shopping with the girls as they are more curious of things and seem to be grabbing extra things to add to my already stuffed trolley.
My mum and step dad are currently minding a house in Katoomba so thought I should ask if they would like to come along as well. They were getting ready to go there as well, so I did not feel so bad that my day consisted of visiting a place to buy food and other supplies with children.
I explained this to Kay, my sister. She could not stop laughing that this was my day out. I explained that this is big for our area, and it gives us so much more choice now. But it is rather sad that I had such a fun time going food shopping. Oh well…. let’s pray this does not last.
Julia really wanted to have her toe nails painted with nail polish. I decided that she was old enough and it does come off, so where is the harm in it. The only thing that I thought might cause and issue is waiting for it to dry. This seemed to not be a problem. She fully accepted that she had to wait. We made a game of it. Julia wriggled her legs in the air to dry them and sat contently with me until they were dry.
Lillian wanted hers done as well. I then attempted to put nail polish on her toes when she said “I want pink”. The colour that I was using was purple and not pink. This seemed odd as Lillian keeps telling me and others that her favourite colour is purple. I knew I had heaps of nail polish but when I searched for it, could not find it at all. Tomorrow when I am at the shops will go and get some pink nail polish.
The girls have been quite fascinated by my painted nails on my hands and also my toes. My colour of choice is normally a hot red colour. With fair skin it looks quite nice. Also it makes me feel glamourous, even for a short while.
Today we have had adventures in the backyard with some interesting gardening techniques from the girls. Removing dirt and putting it elsewhere is considered gardening. All useful tips I hear you say. Also tonight when they were not going to bed, Daddy went into their room to see why this was so. It was revealed that they could not go to sleep as there is a dragon in their room. All three of them must be asleep, Julia, Lillian and the dragon as there is no noise now.
Well they are all off to day care tomorrow, not sure what the dragon is doing tomorrow. Maybe he/she only turns up for bed time. I will make sure to get the pink nail polish to paint Lilly’s toes and then I will have happy little girls with panted toes.
Lillian and Julia are very smart little girls. They bug you to go to the park. However as we have had heaps and heaps of rain, going out and to the park has not been on the cards. Explained this to Julia and Lillian and the response is, take an umbrella as that will allow us to go to the park and have fun in the rain. I then explain that this will not work, as I will have to hold the umbrella and it will not cover me, and them and basically with just me and them and an umbrella it will not work.
Again I was asked at about 6.45pm this evening by Lillian to go to the park. I explained that it was dark, late, and cold and going to the park was not a good idea. She responded saying that she should dress in her jacket, hat, scarf, shoes and socks and we could then go. I laughed at the thought process of solving this issue of the cold and not being allowed out but said no yet again. She was not happy.
I am just amazed at the thinking and intelligence that goes into solving problems. Very clever if I say so and I am not biased, 🙂
Lillian keeps on telling me that she wants to go to school. For the past month or so, this has been one of her wants. Aside from going to the park.
I tell her and her sister, Julia that if you both want to go to school that you need to be potty trained. This leads to them not listening and me thinking how can I get them potty trained by 3 years of age. The reason that I am wanting them both potty trained by 3 years of age is that they can start pre-school. This would give me some more time to myself to do study, sewing, cleaning or maybe have some unique time to myself. When Lillian and then Julia comment on wanting to go to school, I say that I want them to go as well.
The hard part now is to work on getting 2 kids potty trained in the lead up to a cold winter. Currently the temperature has dropped and I started the training yet again, I know it was partial training as the afternoon they had nappies on for their nap. However nap is a loose word as no napping took place. It was more like a play time with the door closed, so that mummy could get lunch and be childless for a couple of hours.
I attempted to use the terry towling pants to at least show the child that they are wet and need to go in the potty. This just led to wee’s happening in the living room, plus a poo but it was caught by the terry towling pants. I am aiming to do more on the weekend. I just find it so hard as we go out often and we live a while away from places so we need to travel. To do this we put the girls in nappies, so the training will have to stop.
I am keen to get them out of nappies but it is a lot of work. Monitoring them while they are in their pants not nappies and making them go on their potty. However I need them trained up or no school….talk about pressure.
The girls I thought were ready from 12mths on, however they are still missing a key ingredient, sitting on the potty for any length of time and telling you when they need to go. Any suggestions on ways to do it? Have been thinking of implementing a chart with stickers and stamps as rewards. Will let you know how the chart and sticker reward system goes.
I know it will happen eventually, but I am keen to have some time for me and I feel it will help my girls to go to pre-school.
Mum has come to help me for a bit as I was finding it hard with 2 kids not sleeping anymore during the day. So hard to get everything done and have a smile on your face still. The girls were dropped off to child care by my mum (Nana) as I had an appointment to go to.
I picked them up as normal at 3.30pm. When I got there, Julia was busy reading a book with 2 girls and I could not locate Lillian. Finally found Lillian in the sandpit. Covered in sand and with a big grin on her face. She definatley had fun today. The girls were very hard to convince to come home. Finally after about 40mins of running around and them playing chasing I got them both in the car.
When we got home the girls took off their shoes and socks in the dining room. Lillian’s shoes were full with sand, and that was now on the floor of the dining room. I then cleaned it up. While this was happening Nana commented that the girls should pay a “Sand Tax” as they were moving sand to our house rather than child care. This was met with quite an angry response from Lillian, she said, “No sand tax” in a gruff voice. Very funny. Then it turned into a game where each child would come and tell Nana that they would not have sand tax.
So next time your little one takes more sand home from child care, remember the sand tax issue.
Mum has been helping me with the girls. Today she said that she would mind them while I went to a spa to get my hair, nails and feet done. Nice, did accept and no arguements there. We all went to Parramatta Westfield and parked the car. Mum was going to entertain the girls and I went off to the day spa.
In hindsight should have had mum and the girls stay home and I go off to the spa. Suggested it but mum said that she thought it would be fine.
The spa took forever to get to do anything and the staff did not do anything in a hurry. So it just took ages. I was so worried about how mum and the girls were going, it was hard to relax. Nice to not have to deal with the kids, but it was just hard to think relaxing. Oh well, I sms’d to see how things were going and mum and the girls were playing in the park outside.
Mum has been helping me with the girls. Today she said that she would mind them while I went to a spa to get my hair, nails and feet done. Nice, did accept and no arguements there. We all went to Parramatta Westfield and parked the car. Mum was going to entertain the girls and I went off to the day spa.
In hindsight should have had mum and the girls stay home and I go off to the spa. Suggested it but mum said that she thought it would be fine.
The spa took forever to get to do anything and the staff did not do anything in a hurry. So it just took ages. I was so worried about how mum and the girls were going, it was hard to relax. Nice to not have to deal with the kids, but it was just hard to think relaxing. Oh well, I sms’d to see how things were going and mum and the girls were playing in the park outside.
I had a great routine for 2 kids from birth. Now that is all out of the window at 2.5 years of age. Both kids are not sleeping all day and running around with heaps of energy. They are highly intelligent children (if I do say so myself ) and like to explore, and get into as much mischief and trouble as they can.
This is great if you had heaps of space but being stuck in a small house with no storage or large indoor space for kids is a nightmare. This is especially so for cold days/rain/snow and everything bad that you cannot go outside for.
Currently we have had a cool spell in Katoomba, and probably the mountains area. I am fearing that this winter will be a very cold one. We have had so much rain and James, my husband is predicting that we will get snow this year. It would be good from the point of view that the girls will be more aware to have fun and realise what snow is, but not looking forward to it getting so cold.
Still trying to get the girls toliet trained and no luck as yet. Small steps still. Yesterday they both were telling me often that they want to go to school. I told them to go to school you need to go to the toliet on the potty. The answer I got back was, “Oh, mummy, I want to go to school”. I would love them to go to school now, but they are 2 years and 5 months, too young and still in nappies.
I am aiming to have them mostly toliet trained before 3 years of age so that they can go to pre-school. Crossing fingers. As they are 3 in September they might have to wait for the following year. I need the break during the day as they are not sleeping in the day any more so pre-school would be great to keep them occupied physically and mentally.
Heaters are on, warm blankets on this week and flannel pj’s are a must now. Not looking forward to winter if Autum is starting off this cool. Also trying to convince little people to sit on a potty in the cold is not going to help the toliet training issue.
Today we have had a very long day. Up at 3.30am to get to Maraylya to drop the girls off at their Great Aunties and Cousin’s and pick up Grandma and Grandad to drive to Albion Park for a funeral. It was a very sad day as James’ Aunty Emily had passed away. She had a great long life, 94 years young. I hope to make it to that age.
It was decided that the girls would not be happy about the length of the journey so Julia and Lillian had a day with Denise, Kim and Jean. The girls were kept busy, feeding the horses and playing with them, playing and talking to the birds and the dogs. There is a lot of room to run around at Kim’s and Denise’s so that is ideal for the girls as we have a small house so more space for them to exhaust themselves is wonderful.
When we came back at about 6pm, the girls were in their porta cots asleep. Great, they have had such a full day they are tired. We ended up being invited to dinner, we were just waiting for the girls to wake up.
While we were waiting Jean was telling us of what they got up to. Watching the Tinker Bell movie 5 times and other wonderful adventures like feeding the horse carrots. Jean was said that Julia noticed that she had a letter J on her necklace. Julia said J for Julia. Then said J for Jean. This took Jean by surprise as Jean did not mention this to Julia before, she just came out with it herself.
Other than a very sad day saying a final farewell to Emily it was good that the girls worked off some energy and spent time with their great aunties and the rest of the family. It is also nice to think that Julia is taking in the letters that we have showed her and that she understood that J was for Jean as well. What a clever little girl I have.
James, my husband decided to remove the rails and change the girls beds into big girl beds. Great in theory. Needed to happen eventually, I hear you say. Well, our room is off their room with doors that can easily open. This was all done on a very hot day, that was hard to rest as it was so hot. Most of Sydney was suffering another 40 degree day, even in Katoomba it was very hot and has been all week. Go away heatwave.
So about 3pm hit and the girls were tucked in their big girl beds for afternoon nap time. This did not happen. I did warn James that they will get out of their beds and be destructive. He did not listen. So when we decided that the noise was too much and they were definatley not going to sleep, we went to see what was going on. At about 6.30pm, we discovered that they both had trashed their room and ours. Oh the joy. We discovered that they had trashed the room and emptied 4 baby powder bottles everywhere, in their room and ours. Also they both went through draws and removed, cuff links, watches, rings, and you can imagine. Still missing some cuff links. Hoping that they surface in the next few days.
Lillian covered in cream and a total mess
It was only last Friday the 31st of January that Lillian climbed up on the change table and Lillian was covered in moisturiser, what we call bum bum (Sudocream) cream and also the cornflour. It was all over her, the room, the change table, the curtains, the walls and everywhere. What a mess. Oh no, I don’t want to clean it up but have to. So that took ages and with no help. Luckily this happened on the weekend with the powder and I had James’ help.
We put them in bed at about 9pm finally as they were so all over the place. Then as we were watching television, I was sure that I heard the radio. We paused the show we were watching and found Lillian p
laying with the clock radio, and Julia getting up to no good as well on the other side of the room. Great, our way to secure their door was not working.
Finally got a way to make the door stay closed. Screaming, yelling and giggling. Now silence. Phew. They are asleep. I am wondering if they made it to their beds.
James has gone to bed at 11: 50pm and told me that as the door is a bit ajar he can see that one of the girls is on the floor sleeping. Thank goodness she thought to take her pillow and looks comfortable.
Interesting things that the girls were saying today, Lillian when we tucked her in before the second escape told me that ” I will not make a mess this time mummy.”
Told her that this was good and glad that she will not create a mess like last time.
While we were both cleaning up, Lillian and Julia wanted to play and have cuddles with us. Explained that we were busy tidying up there mess so we could not and it will have to wait. Lillian then told both of us that “I’m busy too” and then she left the room. Julia came back and told us she was very busy also. Very funny indeed.
Just crossing fingers that the girls get the hang of the big girl beds and don’t cause this much mischief during the week. I am hoping that they will just go to bed as they will be so tired. I am sure that is a wish of most parents.
The girls are not eating again. Well they do eat something, but not a lot and not as much as they once used to. It is worrying. They are very small and already underweight for their age.
However they are twins, born 6 weeks early, and were always going to be small.
I was hoping it might be a phase, the weather, or that they are not interested in the food. I have changed the food, given different types of food, treats, and other things. Nothing seems to work. As they are nearly 2 and half my husband wants to stop giving them milk. However I feel that if they are not eating what else can I do. I have been giving them PolyJule in the milk and food to help. Also been adding liquid vitamins to their milk to help boost things.
We were seeing the nutrietiist at Katoomba Hosptial. I think we need to go back to get some things sorted out. The girls need to eat more. I give enough food, they just don’t eat it.
I have taken to looking at one of many of my cooking books for toddlers and babies for ideas. All of the things that I have done, well most of them have been met with shaking the head, and closing the mouth and the arm pushing it away from them.
Oh well. Will make an appointment with the specialist at the hosptial and to see what they suggest. Does anyone else have this issue? I am doing all the right things and the girls are putting on weight, loosing weight, putting on weight, and loosing it. Very annoying and concerning.
Any thoughts on how to interest them in eating more would be appreciated.
Kung Hei Fat Choy! Welcome the Year of the Rabbit. Hoping that this year will be good for us compared to the year of the tiger.
Having fun under the sprinkler
Today was a good day. James was home as we had an appointment with a new accountant, our previous one has let us down in a big way. We went to Wentworth Falls Canton Palace for lunch for Chinese New Year. The place was empty for lunch. We thought that we might not get in as it was new year, but there was us and 2 other tables there. So no issue on getting in at all.
Food was great, nice time at lunch. Girls were at childcare.
After childcare, James and I went home. Lately I have been hosing the girls down as it is so hot here lately. I am sure you have read my other posts about the heatwave. Well since James was home, he organised the sprinkler for the girls to run through. They had a blast. It was their first time with a sprinkler and the joy on their faces was just wonderful.
Happy new year all, and I hope that the year of the rabbit is good for all.
The girls are out of sorts to begin with, you also cannot be stuffed doing anything but have to. So the major things are left undone. For example, have managed to do all the laundry bar one load for today but have yet to fold and put it all away. Have folded some of it but then got distracted.
Have managed to clean up the living room multiple times to have it successfully destroyed by 2 little people. As it has been in the 40 degree temperatures this week, wanted to keep my fair skin girls indoors and myself. So having a messy room with toys was the perils of staying indoors.
Now after the second day in a row that I have taken them outside for them to run through the hose and to cool off, they are over tired, hitting each other, pushing each other and just plan annoying. They did not sleep when I put them down for their morning sleep. I gave them iced water in a non spill sippy cup so that they can cool down, plus cold and wet flannels. This was chucked out of the bed. After Julia pushed Lillian too many times even after I told her nicely not to, then yelled at her to stop, she did not and pushed her. So they are both in their cots with a cold container of cows milk. I know I should not do that but as it is hot and they were screaming I am hungry. They did have a choice of nice cool fish fingers, carrots, bread and iced water.
They also were offered and had some strawberry yoghurt. So don’t think that my girls are starving. They are just deciding on what to eat and not to eat. Sometimes I serve up a big plate of things for them to pick at and nothing. I then give them a choice a few things and the same. Today for the second day in a row, they did not eat their breakfast. I am putting it down to the heat. Happy to give them more food, just is doing my head in with not eating anything. Oh well, I suppose that is the perils of having toddlers, and 2 of them to boot. Sometimes when one is happily eating, the other will say, “I don’t like it”, and then the other will agree and not eat any more. If only they would just continue eating.
It is supposed to rain and have thunderstorms with a chance for heavy rain. That has not happened. Crossing fingers it might happen tonight to give us all a cool night and a good chance to sleep.
Well enough of the whinging about being hot and bothered. I am off to do something about it. Going to get a cool drink, relax and watch a tv show of my choice. Not childrens viewing.
What do you do when it gets so hot that you feel like you are melting? How does that affect your children? I know most of you probably have air conditioning but we don’t. So tips for those without would be nice.
Have purchased big girl pants, well with dora the explorer on them, for the girls. Hoping that they will love these so much that they will not want to wear nappies. Well that is a plan to try and help with the potty training.
While out today we went to the Kids Kingdom at the Katoomba Aquatic Centre and surprise, surprise we were the only people there for well over an hour or more. The girls went crazy with excitement, they liked having the place to themselves, they ran up the giant plastic stairs and obsobsles to get to the slippery dip, played on the trampoline and then ran about the toddler climbing things with a play house. It all changed when another family with older kids came, Lillian then became afraid of the slippery dip and the others. Julia eventually warmed up to them and they were very sweet and helped the girls, however Lillian I think would have preferred it to remain just us. She kept on telling the others, that it was “her slipper dip”, Her trampoline and you get the idea.
