Doctors Office Waiting Room

We went with a friend to the doctor. I watched all the kids in the waiting room. They were good considering how long we were there. We colored, played with stickers, danced and had a treat. We headed to Whole Foods to shop. What a fun store! I found Kombucha, Ghee and other fun stuff.

Drawing and Picture of Daddy

Lilia drew this picture and told me it was daddy. Elayna is still learning to not draw on the walls but the white board.

Grandpa's Cell Phone

Elayna helping Grandpa R with his phone. He was talking to her Aunt Mimi. She was so quiet. I knew she would be into something.

Herbert Training Pants

2-15-13
Wearing her training pants.

Chocolate Valentine Sugar Cookies

I found recipe for chocolate sugar cookies. The recipe was complicated and had dairy. I tweaked (added brown sugar and cocoa powder) Momma Rose Best Ever Sugar Cookies recipe and they are yummy! The girls rolled out the dough and made a lot of hearts. Elayna ate all of her dough and Lilia nibbled here and there. We had great time baking and got flour and dough everywhere!

Chocolate Sugar Cookies
1 1/2 C sugar
1/2 C brown sugar
3/4 C cocoa powder
1 C soft margarine or coconut oil
3 eggs
Cream above ingredients in mixer.
1 tsp vanilla
Add to mixer.
4 1/2 C flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
Stir in the above.

Kneading in all flour; chill. Roll 1/4 inch thick. Ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 350 degrees F for about 9 minutes.

Valentines Day Card

The girls got Valentine's Day card from Aunt Annie. They loved opening the card and Lilia "read" it to us. She let me read it later to them. They love their Annie! Thank you Annie!

Starting the Day with a Surprise!

2-13-13
Lilia decided to help Elayna take all her clothes and diaper off and wear big girl panties (they were Lilia's). I had a bag ready with Elayna's panties, two dolls that wet and potty chart. I just was not ready myself to train her. I got the cute picture and then she wet all over. She was surprised. We got the dolls out and had them drink water and pee in the potty. Elayna loved this and Lilia did too. We drank a lot of water and had a lot of wet panties. Sticker chart had few stickers for sitting on potty but none for peeing. I think she did once. When lunch and nap came along we put diaper on her. At dinner Elayna threw tantrum and insisted on sitting in daddy's lap to read the newspaper.

2-15-13
She peeded twice in panties and then Pooped on the potty! I bought more of the Gerber training pants. We took a break potty training yesterday to go visiting teaching for church.

2-26-13
Elayna woke up with dry diaper! Okay never happened before. Elayna decided she wanted to wear panties, not the training panties but fairy panties (do not absorb anything). Great :) She pees and poopes in the potty! Yeah! She wears diaper for nap time and diaper is dry. This girl can hold it. Yikes! We also gave up on the sticker chart. No interest. Reading books on the potty--very interested. "Things that Go" (Same book Lilia loved and it is all about cars, boats and things that go. Not a word about potty.)

2-27-13
Elayna woke up with dry diaper from night time.  She decided to wear her fairy panties. I know I should be happy but I am trying to finish up birthday party preparations for Lilia's birthday. I don't want to spend all day in the bathroom. Elayna wanted big girl panties so we went for it. She did great, told me when she has to go, "poopy". This means pee and poop. She also likes to take panties all the qT off when sitting on the potty. She stayed dry during nap time but I had a diaper on her. She loves reading the "Things that Go" book. She was in panties till bedtime and we were all up late.

Summary:
I think this child trained herself to go potty. We are very proud of her. Church will be fun on Sunday!

Crazy Hair

Elayna loves these hair bands! She wanted all of them in her hair.

Last night was a memory I don't want to forget. I asked Elayna what song she wanted to sing. She said, "wise men". I repeated the song name and she said, "good idea". (This is her first time saying this phrase) We sang the song. It has hand motions and she loves it. Then we asked her again what she wanted to sing and she said, "kind and dear".  I said, "I Am a Child of God" (this is the real name of song) and she said, "good idea".  We sang the song. Lilia loves this song as well. Daddy asked Lilia to pray (in Korean). Lilia prayed really fast. She was sitting in my lap.  Elayna was sitting in front of Lilia. Daddy asked Elayna to pray. Lilia quickly started to help her. Lilia would say bless and then name mommy, daddy, Lilia, Elayna, Annie, doggie, etc. Elayna repeated each name. Blessed prophet then Lilia said, "name (Elayna repeated), Jesus (Elayna repeated), Christ (Elayna repeated), Amen (Elayna repeated)". This was a longer prayer and Lilia helped Elayna to pray. They hugged and cheered at the end. We are so blessed. We love our girls. They are learning to pray and why we pray.

Silly Faces

Lilia would rather make silly faces that smile for me. We love all her silly faces! Her sense of humor is so great. She tries to make jokes and they are funny because of the presentation. Example: Lilia clears throat with fist over her mouth and twinkle in eye. Pause. Then fist is raised and she says, "duhh".  Why? We don't know why but she then laughs so hard. We of course laugh as well.

Lilia we love you!

Own beds

Yesterday, I rearranged the girls bedroom. I moved Lilia's bed and she helped. We put toys away together. Lilia loved helping and making the decisions. We purchased a bedrail for her bed and she was so excited when UPS guy dropped it off. We assembled it together and daddy put it on the bed. Now, mommy feels better about Lilia sleeping at night in her own bed. The girls did not take a nap. We played outside riding bikes and playing in the dirt. Lilia kept trying to fall asleep during dinner. Once she got food in her she was awake. Got them bathed. So we sang songs and prayed and got both girls into bed. Lilia was so excited but then changed her mind. I reminded her that Aunt Annie promised her a trip to the salon if she slept in her own bed. Lilia knows that means nails being painted.  Lilia resolved to stay in her bed now. Elayna was wired and so tired. She kept talking and jumping in her crib. The crib is right next to the twin bed. Lilia fell asleep by 7:30 pm. I went and checked in on them. Elayna climbed out of the crib into the bed with Lilia and is laying next to Lilia. I tucked them in and said that was fine, just go to sleep. Well Lilia rolled over and fell asleep. I checked again and Elayna is wide awake and Lilia is asleep next to her. Arghh! Elayna was saying, "Lilia asleep" while poking Lilia's eyes! Lilia still asleep. I scoop up Elayna and rock her and put her back in the crib. I was thinking she had help getting out of the crib from Lilia and could not get out by herself. Wrong! She climbed out again and was poking Lilia again. Lilia is still sleeping. We rocked her to sleep and she stayed asleep in her crib (8:30 pm).
I can not wait till tonight. Elayna's crib will become toddler bed by tonight! Which means putting Elayna back in bed a million times in one night!