Life With Ella

Potty training isn’t over, but we left the house with Ella twice today. This morning, we hung around. Ella wanted to wear big girl underwear and although the potty guru doesn’t recommend it so early on in the training, we did it anyway. Ella went on the potty 2 times and then we decided that after the second time, it would be a good time to take her out. We did a family field trip to Target to look for another portable potty. Ella was fantastic and even made a pee on the portable potty that we had in the car. We got Ella this little Backyardigans couch thing and when we got home, Ella opened it up (like a little bed) and took a nap on it! She did not have an accident during her nap and about 15 minutes after she woke up, she made another pee. The poop is a little more difficult for Ella. She gets pretty uncomfortable and it takes her a while to finally surrender to her poops. Tonight, we went out to dinner with Helen, Ron, Stella and Juliet to this restaurant called Axis that has a family night every Monday. It was a lot of fun, but the service was more than slow and Ella slowly melted down. First, when we got there, she had an accident and made a pee. We changed her and she was fine. She actually went to the bathroom about an hour later and had a successful pee. When we got home, we could tell that Ella had to poop, but she did it in her underwear before we could throw her on the potty. She is doing a great job and this has been quite taxing and intense but it’s so worth it to give Ella some more independence.

In the elevator for the first time in big kid underwear.

Out in the world in the Target parking lot.

Ella’s big kid underwear.

Ella singing her little heart out.

Juliet and her million dollar smile.

Silly Stella. Stella kept telling me to take her picture and she was mugging for the camera.

“I’m going to tell you this one more time…”

Ella did a fantastic job today. She only had one accident (it was pee not poop!) We spent the day painting, playing with stickers, watching Dora, Diego etc… Sunny left the house in the morning to work out and I left in the afternoon to go get a massage. I think Ella has really enjoyed lock down. She has both of her mommies around all day and night, she has been wearing a sun dress every second of every day, she has all these new art supplies, gets to have jelly beans every time she pees or poops – how could life be bad? At around 4:30 we went over to the Arena/Kim household and played over there. Ella made her only poop of the day at their house. It’s so great to have so much potty training support and friendship over there. Juliet is doing amazing potty training too, and Stella is an expert. Tomorrow we are going to venture out into the world with big girl underwear on for a few hours at a time and see what happens. Stay tuned…

Here is a Dora playground that Ella constructed this morning.

Ella gets this serious look when she is painting.

Ella and Juliet had a blast in the bouncy house tonight. Stella decided to stay away from the madness.

Having a great time together.

We keep reminding Ella that there will be no more diapers on Friday and she keeps saying, “OK – no more diapers”. We’ll see what happens tomorrow morning. We did our regular day today – My Gym, lunch at Crossroads Cafe, walking home, etc. Mommy came home and we played in the hallway – Ella is getting really good at kicking the ball and catching the ball. We went to Acme tonight for the last diaper supper. Ella fell asleep at the table because she didn’t take a nap today. For those of you who love Ella in pig tails, you’ll enjoy these pictures. Wish us luck tomorrow.

Here is a very happy Ella running down the hallway.

Ella in the elevator. I somehow got her to leave the house without a sun dress!

On the street after My Gym.

Having lunch at Crossroads Cafe.

Fooling around with mommy on the way to Acme. Ella changed into a sun dress for dinner.