No Dryer :(

Unfortunately our dryer decided to die this week! It died on Wednesday, the guy came on Friday, the part came in today and he's hopefully going to fix it tomorrow! That is a whole week without a dryer while we're potty training! Fortunately, we have TONS of panties and Emily has had very FEW accidents (see previous post)! However, I did have to do a load yesterday because Emily was out of panties and pj's. I thought it was kind of funny to see all of her stuff hanging in the laundry room!

Potty Training Week 1

Well, we officially started potty training last Saturday. It has gone SURPRISINGLY well, compared to stories I have heard! I have told everyone, Emily has been such a good child about everything....sleeping all night at 10 weeks, being such a good eater, talking so well at 2 and now (knock on wood) doing really good at using the good potty.....I just hope we can get this lucky 2 times!

We used anything and everything as incentives during this time! She gets a pee-pee sticker for her potty chart and 1 Hershey Kiss when she pee-pees, she gets a poo-poo sticker for her potty chart and 2 Hershey kisses when she poo-poos. She also gets (when she remembers to ask for it :) to take a shower and play with her crayons when she poo-poos. She has also gotten surprises at night from Daddy when she has not had an accident all day. These include new Valentine Books, Shake's ice cream, stuffed Rocket from Little Einsteins and a huge stuffed Care Bear. I'm telling you, we've decided whatever works :) We just hope that once she gets the hang of it, she doesn't require all of this!

We want to say a big THANK YOU to cousins Debbie, Deleah and Braxton because they gave Emily the bath crayons for Christmas. These were ultimately Emily's motivation to poop in the potty! We had tried everything and then Emily found these in her drawer. I have to admit, I had hid them thinking they would make a big mess and be more trouble than they were worth! However, Emily REALLY wanted to play with them so we told her that when she poo-pooed she could take a bath and play with them. Low and behold SHE DID IT!!!!! And, to my surprise, they are not messy at all! The problem has been that almost every time she poops, she wants to take a bath or shower so she can play with her crayons. Needless to say she is very clean and her skin is very dry right now!

The accident tally for Week 1 is as follows:
Monday - 2 accidents
Tuesday - 0 accidents
Wednesday - 2 accidents
Thursday - 0 accidents
Friday - 0 accidents
Saturday - 2 accidents
Sunday - 0 accidents

A very good report for Week 1 of Potty Training if I do say so myself :)

The best incentive for Potty Training EVER :)

Week 1 Potty Chart

Ultrasound Pics

I am sorry for the quality, they were not very dark to begin with and so when I scanned them they looked REALLY light! Maybe you can see a little bit!

Profile

Front of face
Legs straight out to the right - nothing in between.....it's a girl :)

Spinal cord

Baby's head to the right and body to the left

Baby Martin Is A . . . .

GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are very excited! However, most improtantly, everything on the ultrasound looked good and normal. No signs of any problems, which is VERY GOOD NEWS! We had a Level 2 ultrasound where they check a lot more than they would in a regular one. They saw and measured the heart, brain, spine, stomach, lungs, neck, arms, legs, hands, profile, everything it seemed like! They even saw chambers of the heart. How weird is that they can see that already!

We also told Emily today that she is going to be a Big Sister. We hadn't officially told her anything. She has heard us talk about stuff and some people have even asked her about it, she would usually just smile and not say anything :) But, we got her 2 Big Sister books and tried to explain her about being a Big Sister. While we were talking she looked at me and said "I'm grown up. I'm grown up to be a big sister." It made me cry to hear her say she was grown up! I mean I know she is, but it was so sweet to hear her say that!

She then got to call all the family and tell them that she was going to have a Little Sister and she is going to be the Big Sister! It was very cute! Now we just have to find out what Baby Ezell is :)

Razorback Gymnastics

Friday night we met Tracey & Lily at the Razorback Gymnastics meet. Lily & Tracey have gone to several meets, I just haven't been brave enough to take Emily yet. But I thought since she knew what gymnastics was now, she would probably like it. She was SO excited when I told her where we were going, which was after her nap on Friday :) Her and Lily held hands and practically jumped all the way to the meet. Emily did really well at the beginning. However, it didn't start until 7:00 so about 8:00 she started getting tired. I was very pleased with her behavior even if we didn't get home until 9:30! She was so excited about seeing "The Pig"! But when I asked her if she wanted to go and see him and get her picture taken she said "No, no". I guess she just liked looking at him from a safe distance!

Yummy Ice Cream

The other night I had my monthly Bunco game and Charles & Emily had a night to themselves! So, they went to Shake's for ice cream! Emily chose chocolate....and thoroughly enjoyed it :)

Bubble Bath

Santa brough Emily some Strawberry Shortcake bubble bath in her stocking this year. Well, Emily LOVES to take a bath in "Mommy & Daddy's bathtub" because it has the jets and makes bubbles. So, one night Charles decided to give her a Strawberry Shortcake bubble bath in our bathtub. Needless to say, he had to take her out of the bath before the bubbles were over her head!