NO MORE PULL UPS!!!

Mamie is out of pull ups at night and I am sooooooooo happy about that. A year ago or so Mamie wanted to try and stop wearing them at night, but she would have an accident in the middle of the night and come get in my bed. Anyway, this past Sunday she came running in my room and said she didn't have anymore pull ups. I said well just go get one of Nolans and I will get you some tomorrow. So she came back in my room with big tears in her eyes and said this things are too small, I don't want to wear them. I said well you don't have any and I am not going to the store at this time of night to get you any. She started crying just a little bit more. Then she looked up at me with her BIG BLUE eyes and said you know what, I want to try and get out of these pull ups once and for all. So she ran off and told Kyle about it. She was so happy about it. My sister and I were talking about this over Christmas because her little girl was and is going through the samething. She said what she would do is make her go to the potty before bedtime and then she would wake her up and walk her into the bathroom around 12 or so and make her sit on the potty (now the child had no idea she was doing this), then she would do it again around 3 or so. Margaret Ellis no longer wears them. So Mamie had in her mind she wanted to do the same thing. So this past week we have been doing just that. Making her go around 11 or so, then again around 2 and it has worked. She has been so happy in the morning that her bed isn't wet and she doesn't have a pull up on. Last night Nolan fell asleep with us and I put him in his bed around 12:30, so I got Mamie up and walked her to the potty. Is is so funny to watch her walk in there, she doesn't even know she is walking. I or we forgot to get her back up around 3, I was so worried she had an accident, so I walked in her room to wake her up and she said very happily I MADE IT ALL NIGHT LONG AND DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO GET UP AND GO TO THE POTTY. I just laughed and asked her if she didn't remember me getting her up and going and she said no. So no more pull ups for my BIG girl. Now it is time for Nolan to get out of the dang things. He has dry ones for about 3 nights in a row, then it is down hill from there. Doctor says he still is a little young. Other times we have tried is because we have said it is time to get out of them, but I am just so proud of Mamie, once she made her mind up she wanted to get out of them she did it.

A DATE WITH DADDY

Last week Kyle told me he wanted to take Mamie to something at Millsaps. I told him I didn't care. So the date was set for Tuesday January 13, 2003. Mamie was all excited about going. I picked her up from after school care and we talked about what she should wear. I asked her about a couple of outfits and each one came with an answer "no", "no" and "no". Then I asked her what she wanted to wear. She said "I don't know, but daddy said it had to be Fancy". I asked "Like Fancy Nancy"? She said "oh, yes that would be great". I thought great now I am going to have to come up with something, wish Kyle would have told me "FANCY". Anyway, we got home she took a shower and I pulled out a cute stripe dress, leggings and her Hot Pink boots". I know it is not FANCY, FANCY, but she wanted to wear it. So off they go. I never really asked Kyle where they were going or what they were going to see. I was just told he wanted to take her somewhere. They got back around 8:45 p.m. and Mamie was sound asleep on Kyle's shoulder. He undressed her and put on her P.J.s and in she walks to the den. I asked her what they went to see and she said "some man playing a guitar". I asked "oh, did you like it"? She said "yes, but I fell asleep". I said "that was o.k. you were sleepy". Anyway, she said "oh momma there were ladies there with um, um, um animal coat on". "WHAT". yes animal coats. I looked at Kyle and he said "Fur coat". I guess she asked him about the coat and he said they were fur coat and she didn't understand that and he told her dead animals. So she was telling me that there were old ladies there in shiny clothes. I looked at Kyle again and asked where did y'all go? He said "to the Ford Center at Millsaps". Some guy was playing "a guitar" and Kyle thought Mamie would enjoy it. I asked Mamie if she would going to tell her teacher that she went on a date with her daddy and she smiled real big and said "No, I want to keep this to myself". I think she enjoyed it because she couldn't stop talking about it what everyone was wear and that she got some orange drink and cookies. So, I am glad I have a husband that wants to take his little girl out on a date. Special times for both.



I love this picture. It was at the fair this past year. We were on the farriswheel coming down and she left like she was falling. I didn't get a picture of them leaving lastnight or I would have posted it. I was trying to get Nolan's attention so they could leave or he would have wanted to go along.

public again

i decided to go public again, because i was having problems getting into it at work. last week i had to work and every time i would try to get onto my blog it would kick me out. a lot of times i take my camera to work because it is faster to upload pictures and post them. we had a wonderful christmas and a wonderful new years as well. i will upload pictures later, but right now i am in the middle of clean house before the work week and school weeks starts. boy, it is going to hard waking up and even trying to get mamie up for school tomorrow. we have been sleeping til around 8:00 a.m. for the last two weeks. i told her get ready because tomorrow is going to be totally different. she didn't like that too much. i will fill everyone in on our last two weeks later. i am sure you all are ready and waiting. go for now i hope everyone had a great christmas and a wonderful new years eve/day.....