The GA Guinn Trips

Well, triplet potty training is going well. We are potty trained at home.  They are even going to poopy in the potty consistently now.  The problem is that they RESUE to tell us when they need to go.  That is GREAT when the girls are at home, but not so great when we are out. 

The reason we headed out after school when I just wanted to rest and hang out with the girls is all because of a STUPID ALARM CLOCK!

 Alyssa can now here her daddy's alarm clock when it goes off.  Now I have a REAL PET-PEEVE with Frank and it's the alarm clock.  I don't need an alarm clock to get up!  I just tell myself that I am getting up at 5:30 and about 15 to 20 minutes before 5:30 I wake up!  I do set an alarm just encase, but I also GET UP when it goes off!  I may every now and then hit snooze, but its one time and I am usually up before if goes off.  I also hit the ground running.  I don't need time to figure out where I am or shake off the sleep glaze.  Once I'm up; I'm up!

So I can't understand, Why anyone FEELS the need to set their alarm almost 2 HOURS before they have to get up? It is beyond me! (and don't give me that crap about how that's the best sleep after you hit snooze!  You are breaking you REM sleep, so you are NOT getting better rest! You are depriving yourself long term sleep.) Instead you are being awaken up every 15 minutes for TWO whole hours, and that means that I am getting woken up EVERY 15 minutes for TWO whole hours. 

Example: Last night, Frank set his alarm for 3:30 am. It went off and ALYSSA woke up!  I got her (because Frank was still able to sleep like a rock!)  Every time, I almost had her asleep the thing would go off again!   At 5:15, my clock goes off.  I get up and head to the shower after telling Frank he's got to deal with Alyssa, and he gets CRANKY about it!  I mean come on! I'm the one whose been dealing with her, because of YOUR alarm clock!

Its crazy and it has to stop.  And since in almost 12 years of marriage, I haven't been able to stop this, I figure trying to change him isn't gonna work, so I decided to change ALYSSA or at least make a darn good effort, which is what lead us to Walmart in PANTIES!  April uses an ocean soundtrack to keep her kiddos from hearing them moving around the house.  So I decided to give it a try.

We loaded up after Ms. Felicia came over.  (DID I FORGET TO MENTION THAT ALYSSA HAS BEEN DISMISSED FROM SPEECH TODAY? Ms. Colleen decided that Alyssa was caught up to her age group and she is.  So no more speech!  In fact, Alyssa is now our best talker.  Although when she starts talking to me at 3:30 in the morning, I often question why I put her in speech!  I was hoping to get her discharged for OT, but the therapist wants to work with her a little bit longer, so we will until the end of September and then be done!).  The girls did great and we quickly found a sound machine that plays the ocean sound.  Surprisingly, Alyssa announced that she needed to potty, so Nana took her and they had success in the potty. Then, we looked at toys and then headed to the garden center to see if they still had any of the small Terra cotta pots left for the girls' birthday.  Unfortunately, they didn't, so I've got find them somewhere else.  As we were walking out, Isabelle started looking like she needed to pee, so I ran her across the front of the store with her and convinced the wal-mart worker (male) cleaning the restroom to let us in.  AND THEN SHE DID NOT PEE!!!

Well, Nana gave the girls a bottle of water and by the time I got with Issy, we loaded them up.  In the 5 minutes it took to drive home.  Makenna peed in her carseat.  She never told me she needed to potty AT ALL!  And as soon as we walked into the house.  Alyssa peed on the floor!  FRUSTRATING MUCH!  Well after dinner and bath, we had naked run around the house time and they all peed about 10 times in the potty and Alyssa even pooped!  WHY?!?!?!?!?!?

So that's the progress.  Hopefully, we can get them to start telling us, so I can get them out of the house!  This is the worse part of potty training!

So today we had a couple of accidents.  Alyssa right after bathtime, and Makenna before bedtime.  Isabelle can hold her pee FOREVER!!!!! I mean you have to watch her, because she will go hours without using the potty unless you make her.  She is too funny!  I also found out about a great potty seat! 

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I am thinking about getting two for our bathrooms, because the normal inserts seem to not be able to contain the pee!  I mean I always heard that boys were messy, but the girls are crazy too! 

I also took some pic at the last swim lesson that I need to share.  The video is not working for some crazy reason, so I don't think I'll be able to get it up!  I try to get some videos of the crazy girls in the pool on Friday! 

 Kicking the water!

Here's the girls getting into the pool!

So Potty Tronning update:  The girls stayed completely dry with Nana again today.  When Daddy brought them home, I started cooking dinner, and Frank decided to take the girls walking.  They went down to the pond by our house and walked around, met a few dogs, and talked to the duck.  They also got a little too close to the water, so I now have to wash shoes, but they had an ABSOLUTE blast! 

And the best news was that when they got home, they were all still dry.  They ate dinner, and when we headed up to take a bath they were STILL dry!  So other than the pull-ups/diapers at nap time and bedtime we are potty trained while in clothing!  We still haven't braved taking them out in panties, but we are doing rides in the car from Nana's to my house and back now. 

I had my first day of work today!  I am less scared than I was yesterday, because it looks like I will be in all English classes.  YEA!  I will even have one small group class.  I still a not sure about all the logistics of the school and everything, but I am getting there!

So my girls have been daytime potty trainned for a while now, but they had ONE condition: NO PANTIES!  They can pee or poop in the potty as long as you don't put them in the panties.  If you do, the second you do, they will have an accident. 

Well, since Grandma Guinn is here and her weenie dogs have sharp nails, we have been trying to keep them in panties.  It has been going okay.  We still have a few accidents everyday, and many are my fault, because I don't listen when they tell me they need to go. 

Example: Today at lunch, Alyssa kept wanting to get down from the table.  I kept making her get back up and eventually she  says really quitely "potty."  She had an accident, because I did not pay attention to why she was wanting down from the table. 

It is really frustrating to be this close and yet still not quite be there!  I want to start getting them out in public in just the panties, but I can't until they acutally start telling me they need to potty and not just doing it.    Oh well, eventually we will get there!