Toilet Training

Well we are finally doing it and its working! Warning: the rest of this post might be a bit explicit and only for other interested mothers!
When Kaisha was 16 months she started telling me when she was going wees. From then on I have been trying to get her to go on the potty or toilet with no luck. She has awesome control and can hold for 3 or more hours! For the last few months she has been going on the toilet at daycare but not at home. At the start of this week she had never done a wee on the potty or toilet at home. Not once! On wednesday I had a chat with her teacher who said at daycare she was ready to be wearing undies so I thought that's it! We are doing this. I have tried chocolate and toys so this time I decided that as Kaisha loves to watch DVD's we would use that as our bribery. When she goes on the toilet she can watch something and when she has an accident we have to turn it off until she can go on the toilet again. So far it is working a treat. Thursday we had one success on the potty and also only one on Friday. Saturday we had about half success and half accidents and Sunday we have had complete success with no accidents! She is wearing undies to bed for her sleep and has yet to have an accident. She doesn't even want to wear a nappy to bed but I'm not ready for that just yet!

Photos

I got the photos back this week from Kaisha's photo shoot. I have 15 professionally edited shots and 595 originals! It took me 2 hours to look thru them yesterday. Here are a few more of the professional ones. Now to actually get some of them printed.

Garden

The tomato plant is taking over. The broccoli, carrots, spring onions and marigolds are doing well and the peas are nearly finished.




Now to get the rest of the pansies flowering too. Have to get onto actually fertilizing the garden I think.

Update

Kaisha is sick, AGAIN. She has only been well for about 2 weeks since May. This started out as a cold 3 weeks ago and turned into a throat infection with antibiotics yet again. The poor thing is having high temps again but is fairly happy as long as the paracetamol is working. She is coughing again too although not as bad as she was last time.
Two nights ago she woke at 2 and kept the whole family up til 3. Feeling rather fed up as she was wide awake and wanting to play and I was not I went back to bed shutting our bedroom door. She had a fit banging on it and then I could hear her wandering the house. I tried to stay awake til she quietened down but it didn't work. In the morning this is where we found her.


Bear - Kaisha has developed a fondness for this bear who is getting carted round everywhere. When I get her up to have her medicine in the night I have to carry bear on one hip and her on the other.

Hide and Seek - Kaisha has quite a few spot books and spot's favourite game is hide and see. She has been asking to play it quite a lot lately. First she covers her eyes with me and counts and when we finish counting she runs off to hide. She always hides like this

under her bed. As I'm looking for her she yells out telling me she is under her bed. When I "find" her she wants to play again but doesn't bother to get out of her hiding spot. Hilarious!

Summer is coming here. Yay! I've been making quite a bit of sun tea. Take 3 tea bags and wrap em round a chop stick (so you don't have to fish). Add 2T sugar to your 1.25L jug. Add your water, suspend the tea bags from the chopstick across the top and leave it in the sun for an hour or two.
Yum!!!

Professional Photos

I've been wanting to get some professional photos of Kaisha since she turned 2 but have never got around to it. I'm not a huge fan of the standard studio type shots so was looking for something a bit different. On thursday we spent the morning at the beach having a ball while Laura Koolik took photos. It was so much fun! We had a tea party and played in the waves. Lucky for us it was a record high of 27 that day. There is a sneak peak on her website, so click here to see them. I can't wait to see the rest, I'm sure they will all be amazing.

Swimming

Every Saturday at 7:20 Nick wakes Kaisha up to take her to swimming lessons. She comes bounding into our bed and changes into her togs and then her and daddy go off to "learn to swim" while I get a sleep in. YAY! The lesson is from 8:00 to 8:30. This week Kaisha had new togs which she was extra excited about. At the lessons they learn to slide into a pool, jump in, pull themselves out, kick to the edge and that sort of thing. We enrolled Kaisha as she has always been fairly wary of water, to the point that she won't get into the bath, sometimes for months on end. (We did wash her, but it involved a lot of screaming). It has definitely helped and she now loves lolling in the bath for ages. Hopefully this summer she will also be more confident when we go to the pool or beach too.

Sleepover

Click here to see photos on Louise's blog of Kaisha's first sleep over at Reubens. Because Kaisha wasn't around I didn't really take any photos this weekend so don't really have anything to post on. We had a lovely date night on Friday night and it was very strange to come home and not go and check on the gorgeous sleeping beauty. Of course we didn't really sleep in as we are so used to being woken up but we did enjoy not being dragged out of bed. On sunday morning when Kaisha arrived at my bedside at about 5am her words were "Mama, on Friday's I go to Reubens". So I guess she will be coming back this week too Louise!