The Hardin Family

A Couple of Milestones…

August 7th, 2008

Each one of our girls has crossed a milestone!  Madison went pee pee in the potty finally this past Monday night!  Now, ask me if she has done it since…nope!  Ryan and I introduced the potty to Madison this past Christmas.  We have been working with her on it, or at least trying to, but she just has absolutely no interest in going on the potty.  We have completely switched to pull ups, because they don’t absorb as well as diapers and kids aren’t supposed to like the feel of wetness.  Yeah, Madison doesn’t care.  I have put her in big girl panties two times.  The first time she didn’t pee in them but we were getting ready to leave after awhile so I put her in pull ups.  She went as soon as I put them on.  The second time I put panties on her she went pee in them and didn’t tell me.  So, I guess peeing in them and being wet doesn’t bother her either.  On another occasion, I let her run around without anything on the bottom.  She held it in ALL morning and refused to pee in the potty.  She didn’t have an accident on anything and I knew she had to go.  She would hold herself and cry.  I put her on the potty but she would not go.  I finally gave in and put a pull up on her because I felt so bad for her and what happened?  The flood gates opened.  We ask her all the time to sit on the potty and she refuses.  We started a reward system with her, one that has been recommended to me by numerous people…M&Ms.  We put a bag of M&Ms in the bathroom in plain sight and nothing.  She didn’t care.  We even went farther and said if she goes pee pee in the potty we will go to Chuck E Cheese.  So everyday she goes into the bathroom and looks at the bag of M&Ms, she would say, “If I go pee pee in the potty, I can get M&Ms and go to Chuck E Cheese.”  We would play it up everytime.  But do you think that mattered…NO!!  SOO, when she went Monday, the first words out of her mouth were basically, “Where are my M&Ms and I get to go to Chuck E Cheese!”  This was after she got done crying!  Now, like I said, she hasn’t gone since, so tomorrow I am spending the whole day with just her while my parents watch Lauren and we will be working going in the potty.  WIsh me luck!

Madison with Chuck himself :-)

 Secondly, Lauren took her first steps!  July 26th to be exact.  Madison was 15 months when she walked, and when she did, she took off.  Lauren is 13 months and takes a few steps at a time.   She is taking it a bit more slowly, but that is ok!  We are just excited that she is doing such a great job! 

Lauren taking small steps

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