Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Workout video coupon
Hey Ladies! If you are thinking about buying some of Lindsay Brin's Moms into Fitness workout videos, here's a $10 off coupon for you! $2 for me and $10 for you, and we both get her great videos!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Potty Training Tip
I read somewhere to buy a sheep skin and cut it to fit the seat of your child's carseat when you're potty training them. They said the sheepskin is absorbent and can be washed. We got our's at IKEA for $24 and it was big enough to put one in Lucy and Davids' carseats. 
Monday, August 9, 2010
How to potty train a toddler
I think there are a lot of ways to do the whole potty training thing, but here is what worked for us:
1) We talked quite a bit about potty training before we started (read books about it, watched movies about it, she would watch her friends go, etc)
2) She went to the store and picked out her own big girl panties, treat for when she "went" in the potty (she chose Skittles) and the stickers she would put on her potty chart.
3) I chose a 3 day time frame I knew we would not have to be anywhere and we could put potty training as the primary focus.
4) Day #1
-I just let her run around the house with just her t-shirt on and I let her drinks LOTS of milk, water and juice so she would be ready to go when the time came.
-I wore a timer that would go off every 15-20 minutes and then re-set itself it (it's called a MotivAider)
-When the timer went off (a vibrator only I would feel) I would say, "In 1 minute we're going to try going potty". (Lucy seems to work well with warnings of what is about to happen).
-After a minute or so I would say, "Let's go sit on the potty and you can have a Skittle".
-She'd sit on the potty. I gave her 1 Skittle for coming and sitting down and 1 Skittle if she "went" in the potty.
-If she actually "went" in the potty, she got to put a sticker of her choice on a potty chart and once a full row was complete, she got a treat (a popsicle)
-We repeated this process every 20 minutes or so for the whole first day.
5) Day #2 pretty much the same process but I pulled way back on the liquid she would drink and we tried about every 30 minutes.
6) Days #3-6 same process as above, but we tried about every hour (I use the top of the hour just to make it simple for me). We also started wearing panties and shorts. She's not as excited about the sticker chart, so I've just let that fade away, but she does still want a Skittle every time-which is fine for now.
7) We have about 1 accident (or less) a day which I think is normal. So, for what it's worth, that is what worked for us! Good luck!
1) We talked quite a bit about potty training before we started (read books about it, watched movies about it, she would watch her friends go, etc)
2) She went to the store and picked out her own big girl panties, treat for when she "went" in the potty (she chose Skittles) and the stickers she would put on her potty chart.
3) I chose a 3 day time frame I knew we would not have to be anywhere and we could put potty training as the primary focus.
4) Day #1
-I just let her run around the house with just her t-shirt on and I let her drinks LOTS of milk, water and juice so she would be ready to go when the time came.
-I wore a timer that would go off every 15-20 minutes and then re-set itself it (it's called a MotivAider)
-When the timer went off (a vibrator only I would feel) I would say, "In 1 minute we're going to try going potty". (Lucy seems to work well with warnings of what is about to happen).
-After a minute or so I would say, "Let's go sit on the potty and you can have a Skittle".
-She'd sit on the potty. I gave her 1 Skittle for coming and sitting down and 1 Skittle if she "went" in the potty.
-If she actually "went" in the potty, she got to put a sticker of her choice on a potty chart and once a full row was complete, she got a treat (a popsicle)
-We repeated this process every 20 minutes or so for the whole first day.
5) Day #2 pretty much the same process but I pulled way back on the liquid she would drink and we tried about every 30 minutes.
6) Days #3-6 same process as above, but we tried about every hour (I use the top of the hour just to make it simple for me). We also started wearing panties and shorts. She's not as excited about the sticker chart, so I've just let that fade away, but she does still want a Skittle every time-which is fine for now.
7) We have about 1 accident (or less) a day which I think is normal. So, for what it's worth, that is what worked for us! Good luck!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Great Website
Jackie reminded me of a great website Lucy and I love to go to. It's a great resource for scripture study time with young children and we love to explore the site on Sundays. It is put out by lds.org and is ran in conjunction with The Friend Magazine. Go HERE to check it out.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tips from Cheryl
Great ideas from Cheryl's blog:
So, I've been meaning to post some tips I've gotten from others that I thought might be useful to some of you reading this. I always like reading everyone else's tips and stuff.
1) Use baby powder to 'spruce' up your hair on those non-shower mommy days. It actually works really good, and I'm one that seems to have especially greasy hair. For darker hair color, just rub it in really good so it doesn't look gray.
2) To clean your windows, instead of using Windex or other glass cleaning products, dilute about 1 TB Dawn Dish Soap to a half gallon to a gallon of water and wash with a cloth or glass cleaner tool for outside windows. Then use a squeege (spelling? sorry). It works great and doesn't leave a residue like Windex does. I also use it on my glass coffee table and on my mirrors.
3)To avoid getting floaties in your drinks from your ice cubes, rinse off the tray of ice cubes before using.
4)To peel egg shells from a hard boiled egg, use a spoon to go underneath the shell.
5)And I just found this website that is fun for planning birthday parties. It's from Toys R Us, http://www.birthdaysrus.com/
There's fun party ideas, theme ideas, activities, printable cards, and coloring pages. And it's free to join their birthday club. Whitney got $3 to spend in the store and also got a balloon and birthday crown when we went to the store last week to pick out a present.
So, I've been meaning to post some tips I've gotten from others that I thought might be useful to some of you reading this. I always like reading everyone else's tips and stuff.
1) Use baby powder to 'spruce' up your hair on those non-shower mommy days. It actually works really good, and I'm one that seems to have especially greasy hair. For darker hair color, just rub it in really good so it doesn't look gray.
2) To clean your windows, instead of using Windex or other glass cleaning products, dilute about 1 TB Dawn Dish Soap to a half gallon to a gallon of water and wash with a cloth or glass cleaner tool for outside windows. Then use a squeege (spelling? sorry). It works great and doesn't leave a residue like Windex does. I also use it on my glass coffee table and on my mirrors.
3)To avoid getting floaties in your drinks from your ice cubes, rinse off the tray of ice cubes before using.
4)To peel egg shells from a hard boiled egg, use a spoon to go underneath the shell.
5)And I just found this website that is fun for planning birthday parties. It's from Toys R Us, http://www.birthdaysrus.com/
There's fun party ideas, theme ideas, activities, printable cards, and coloring pages. And it's free to join their birthday club. Whitney got $3 to spend in the store and also got a balloon and birthday crown when we went to the store last week to pick out a present.
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