An Afternoon on the Lake

 Yesterday afternoon, we went to the lake with Grandma and Pop Pop.

Wordless Wednesday

The Fourth Fisherman - Book Review

The book, The Fourth Fisherman, by Joe Kissack is a wonderful book on faith.
 
Three (of five) fishermen survived 9 months in the Pacific Ocean living on shark blood and their faith in God.  Along the same lines, the author tells of his story of "survival".  He was living a stressful life full of addiction - addiction to drugs, alcohol and success.  After hitting an all-time low, Joe found God and turned his life completely around.  He connected with the story of the fisherman and underwent many adversities to get their story told the right way for God.

Anyone wanting to read an inspiring, heart-wrenching story, would love this book!!

Potty Training Update

For those of you interested in how well Dayton is doing with the potty, I thought I'd share the latest. 

He has not had a single accident since the one accident the morning we started!! 

He has insisted on wearing a diaper to bed, but has woken up dry every morning!!

I am SO glad to not have to change diapers any longer!  

Potty Training

My little boy finally decided he was ready to be a BIG boy (with a little prompting from mom)!!  We I have been working on potty training off and on for a while, but it was pretty much a waste of time.  Dayton was not ready for this next step to becoming a true big boy.  I really was at a loss, Kylah had been too eager to sit on the potty, so I was a bit frustrated and I think he could tell!

My main problem in all this was I was trying to do it all by myself.  When I finally decided to ask God to help Dayton be ready and for my patience in the whole ordeal, things started working!!  I don't know why I try to do so  many things on my own - you'd think by now I would have learned to go THE SOURCE for everything.

After asking for tips on Facebook and reading this blog entry, I was determined to give it a try - I sure had nothing to lose!  I prayed long and hard before starting this endeavor, and boy did it make a difference!!

Yesterday we started.  I didn't do everything exactly like the blog stated, but I had something to go on and adapted it to work for us.  Dayton only had 2 accidents all day, one of those was during nap time, which I won't even count!!  He got to put LOTS of stickers on his chart and had a BUNCH of car marshmallows!!  He was so proud of himself, which made things go much more smoothly than it could have gone.  By lunch, he was telling me when he needed to go!

Here is a video from earlier today (please excuse the messy room and the lighting)!!  Can you tell he's proud of himself??

Day 2 went way better than I ever expected!!  He told me every time but once that he needed to go, the other time I asked him to try for me since it had been quite a while and he went.  No accidents at all today, even during nap time!!

I am still putting diapers on him at nighttime and haven't quite decided how I'm going to handle church in the morning.  I am thinking pullups might be the easiest, just in case he has an accident, but since he is doing so well, I definitely don't want to mess things up...

Blog Commenting Challenge -Day 5

My dream vacation would be to Australia! I have always loved koalas and would love to go there and see some in person. My favorite vacation is going to the Smoky Mtns. My husband and I were married there and have been at least once every year for the past 9 years.