Family update

Aleksi has been diaper free for the past six days. We just decided to try to say "bye bye to diapers" as we have had him go pee in the potty every once in a while.

On Tuesday we had one kakka accident and several pee accidents as he was wearing pants. But he was also peeing in the potty and stayed dry during nap so I wasn't feeling too discouraged. I canceled volunteering for Wednesday and went to the gym at 5:30 so we could stay home all day and not put pull ups except for Eerika's gymnastics lesson.  He went to pee at the gym three times. 

He did wake up crying  around midnight after the second day because he had a huge poop in his pull up. Poor kid had probably been holding it all day so it must have been a very unpleasant way to wake up. He slept the rest of the night in our bed. 

Friday was a break through when he went kakka on his own in the potty and pulled his pants down and sat down on the potty to pee while I was downstairs. We went to the park for an hour and had no accidents. He learned the art of peeing by a tree. 

So we braved Saku's basketball game and church without a pull up. And no accidents. He did have a poop accident while playing outside. I wasn't nearby so I don't know if he tried to say he had to go. He definitely thinks it is so gross when he has an accident. 

Eerika has become much better about letting me her hair. It is a small thing but it does make me happy to see her hair put up and looking nice. She wears her non-prescription glasses every day with few exceptions. She is liking her new gymnastics gym. She has done new skills and I like how they do a variety of things each week. Her favorite thing has been her coach Isaac because he is a boy and he is funny. 

Saku loves video games. He becomes very responsible and dedicated to getting stuff done when the reward is a video game time. He has also really enjoyed listening to General Conference talks when he goes to bed. He says that he can feel the spirit and it helps him not have nightmares.

Written June 3, 2017