It's A Girl...

January 30th I had my ultrasound appointment to find out the sex of Baby C2! We did this reveal the same way we found out Mac was a boy. We had the nurse write the sex on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope for us to take to dinner later that night. The appointment was at 9:15am so we only had to wait a few more hours to find out!

The envelope sat, sealed, in my truck all day. We got home and got ready for dinner, the babysitter arrived promptly at 6pm, and we were out the door! We went to eat at Manny Hatten's. We decided to get an appetizer, which I don't remember the name of but it was really good.


We both had the chicken and waffles... my waffles had jalapenos and cheddar cheese in them, Jimmy's were regular waffles. He seriously doubted my choice of waffle but changed his tune quickly when he tasted mine! I had eaten there for the first time the Saturday before with some girlfriends and had the same thing so I knew they were good. Jimmy had never eaten there and got what I recommended, however, both of our fried chicken servings were over cooked and a little dry. Of course this would happen when we were trying something new on a special occassion AND after I had gone on and on and on about how awesome the whole plate was on Saturday!



Before we left we had to get a picture...


Oh and another funny party of our evening, facebook. Everyone knew what we were doing that evening and everyone wanted to know if we were having a boy or a girl so I was posting a play by play of the night on facebook. It felt like we had our own little reality show for the evening. People were soooo anxious! So we left Manny's to go to the Cheesecake Factory where we would find out and on the way we had to stop for gas! Man people were not happy about that post! hahaha...I loved it. I asked Jimmy what else he thought we needed to do before dessert to keep these people on the edge! haha But gasing up the truck was the only stop we made before the Cheesecake Factory.

Once we were at the restaurant and seated we let our waitress, Viktoria, in on our plan! She was so happy to play along! She said her friend that was also working was really creative and artsy and they would come up with something very special. She took our cheesecake orders (after I went to check out the display case with all the cheesecakes and discuss the level of chocolate in my top two picks with the cheesecake bar lady), we handed the envelope over to her and off she went!


She came back with our coffee and the wait was on! This is when Jimmy and I started getting excited and anxious and nervous.

We took pictures to pass the time... haha



I could see the cheesecake bar from my seat so I could see her getting our order and walking up to us and then it was time! And she asked if I was ready and I barely had time to answer before she showed me this...


IT'S A GIRL!!!!





We were so excited. I really thought I would start crying but I didn't. I think I knew for sure this time it was a girl so I wasn't too shocked, just realived that I was right! haha

Viktoria even took the time to make me pink whipped cream! It was strawberry flavored too! And that huge Hershey's candy was quite delish.



As was the rest of the cheesecake... SO DANG GOOD!!!


We took a picture in front of the glorious cheesecake case...If anyone wants to know what to bring me in the hospital or just after I get home, Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. More specifically Hershey's Chocolate Bar Cheesecake, kgreatthx.

Just A Few Pictures...

December 29, 2011 This kid LOVES jackets. He always wants one on and when it's on it's not coming off...



December 30, 2011 Going, Going, Gone!





January 4, 2012 Legos with Dad!!






January 16, 2012 “I believe it’s jogging or yogging. It might be a soft j… apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It’s supposed to be wild.” Sorry I have Anchorman on the brain...




January 21, 2012 We did not dip the corndog into the mustard... in fact mustard never came into contact with the said corndog.

Potty Training

In January we had a three day weekend which had been marked as potty training weekend for several months. Thank you MLK/Confederate Heros for this free Monday.

I bought the Lara Jensen, 3 Day Potty Training (you'll want to write that down) ebook for $24, downloaded it, and read the entire 50 page book cover to cover. I was prepared. Jimmy was willing to help so he read the most important chapter of the book, and we were set. I was so happy he helped me Saturday and Sunday. This process works but, wow, it's exhausting!

Basically you shadow your kid 24/7. Constantly saying "Tell Mommy/Daddy if you need to potty" is tiring and annoying! haha But it works!

We got up Saturday morning. Mac was in a pull up intitially until he needed to be changed. Oh and his boots, obviously.



"Mac! It's potty training day! Are you excited!!??"


"huh, well it's still potty training day..."

Once he had to be changed it was undies and a tshirt. He helped me "throw away" all his diapers and pull ups that are for Babies and we were ready to potty! I say "throw away" because with a baby on the way I will NOT dump $50 worth of diapers and pull ups in the trash but we sat the box on top of the trash bin and he understood they were gone.

I took Mac to the kitchen and showed him his stickers and sticker chart...


and his treats for going potty...



and the big treats for big successful moments during the three days...


I also put down towels on the couches and chair just in case...haha


Here we go! With Captain America undies and three days of cartoons we were ready!


He did very well on Saturday. He only had 3 accidents all day long, a dry nap, and a dry night! He got lots of stickers for going potty and lots of treats too. We did not give him a treat every single successful potty trip, I think he would have thrown up!





Let me tell you this kid was excited for stickers! He had to have two each time he went potty, one for each hand! He loved it. He did NOT want the stickers on the chart, he kept peeling them off so the chart was abandoned half way through Day 1... his hands were loaded with stickers instead haha!






Day 2 went as successfully as Day 1. We had 3 accidents, a dry nap, and a dry night. Lots of stickers and lots of cartoons! He did such a fantastic job!





"Mom, I know I picked out Alice In Wonderland but I don't want to watch it anymore. I don't!"


"FINE, more cartoons...ugh"

Day 3 I was alone with Mac. I think he had one accident, if any, (that's why you should post these things immediately and not a month and a half later...) a dry nap, and a dry night! And tons of stickers!!

I was super scared about daycare the next day but Tuesday came and went and NO ACCIDENTS AT SCHOOL! Jimmy picked him up that day and told me and I can't tell you how proud I was of my little potty trained man! I told Jimmy I wish Mac was old enough to understand just how proud I was and how good he did! We went the entire rest of the week with no accidents.

Mac was potty trained in three days and it's awesome! No diapers, well for 3 more months anyway! He did have a little relapse a few weeks ago starting in MtP during my brother's wedding weekend. There was an incident at rehearsal... then the following week did not go so well but we have pulled through that and he is back on track. We have determined that when he is in a new place surrounded by lots of people and lots of things going on that he will not tell us he needs to potty but we know to just take him regardless if he tells us or not. But we consider him 100% potty trained! Such a big boy!!




(Jan 14-16, 2012)