Potty Training.

My Princess just turned 2 last Tuesday and is starting to show that she is ready to be potty trained. Can some experienced Mom's give me some tips please? We have a potty that she will sit on if she is occupied, we don't want to do the bare bottom method. Someone suggested to me that I put panties on under her diaper so that she can feel when she is wet. Any thing else that I can do?

Also we had our second session of speech therapy yesterday, we are doing it every Wednesday! She likes it which is good and she has said a few words when the SPL (Speech-Language Pathologist) is here but hardly says them when she isn't so were are working on that.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

Kay

Speech Therapy.

We had our speech therapy evaluation yesterday. She qualifies for help in one area but not the other. She doesn't need help with understanding and that part of the speech therapy. I forgot what it was called, we had a long day yesterday sorry. But she does need help with the communication part, she needs help with her words, she says like 3 words consistently. We are getting a call back next week to set up our first therapy session. I'm excited maybe my baby will start talking! Then we can do more preschool based things I'm so excited to be able to do that! YAY!

On a side note Cassie will be 2 in less than 2 weeks, where did time go! I swear she was just born.

Today is the day.

Cassie has her speech evaluation today. We are going to the children's therapy center for her evaluation. I'm excited but nervous at the same time. Excited that she might get the help she needs, if she needs it and nervous that she might need help. She has been "talking" all morning so hopefully she will be talkative for the eval.

On a side note, I need to find a good cheap dentist who is open late or on the weekends around Seattle, WA. My tooth started bothering me last night. It would be a sharp pain that brought me to tears then it would dull away then it would come back. I tried Orajel and Ibuprofen last night and neither worked. It eventually became so that I can bear it and sleep. It hasn't happened at all this morning and hope it doesn't but I still need it looked at.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Kay

Love bug is sick!

Poor lovebug has a cold. She was supposed to go in for a hearing screening yesterday but she was sick! We have her speech eval on the 22nd hoping that things pan out and that we can get some help for her. I'm not sure she really needs the hearing screening cause she can hear just fine in my opinion.

On a side note she turns 2 in less than a month. Where did time go! I added my blog on a link party so I will try to update more.

Been A While.

I have been meaning to post, but nothing really has been going on. Last week we were busy when the in-laws came to visit Cassie had a great time with them and so did her Mommy and Daddy. Cassie had a weight check yesterday she weighs 21.02 lbs and is 31.75 inches long, we also got referred to get her hearing and speech evaluated to see if she will qualify for speech therapy. The weather has been nice here so we have been outside playing as much as possible so the apartment has been getting neglected.

Dieting so far..

So far it has been hard, the only time I am able to go walk on the tread mill is after Cassie goes to bed at 8pm. The eating part has been kinda tough too because my husband and I don't really eat the healthiest and we cant really afford it, with me being a stay at home mom, we are barely making it. We have been better since Cassie has started eating table foods but there are some things that we could do differently. I have been under my calorie goal but its all the fatty foods that I eat that is messing me up. I went to my sister in laws house on Sunday and weighed myself then and I had lost 2.4 pounds I am super excited about that! We are going there again this weekend so we will see how much I weigh then.

Losing Weight

I am determined to get skinny again and stay there. Since I left high school I have gained a ton of weight and I want it gone! I have joined myfitnesspal.com and so far I am doing good, I've been below my calorie intake although I haven't gone to the gym like I planned I will get this weight off. Once the weather clears up I will go on walks everyday with the little lady and spend more time outside. I am going to be blogging about my weight loss journey (as well as other mommy things), I don't have a scale yet, but the last time I checked my weighed about 10 months ago I was at 197, I weigh about the same as my 6foot boyfriend, I'm 5'5 eek!

My sister-in-law, Kat, is on summer break now and we have been skyping it's nice to see my in-laws again. Yesterday I organized the apartment and got rid of a lot of boxes, most of which we're still put together and empty, so I broke them down and stored them so that we have them when we move in a year. I organized the "laundry room", we keep the extra diapers, wipes, kleenex, paper towels, sheets, blankets, towels and mine and my boyfriends clothes as well as our laundry soap and a few boxes that we get into every  now and then so that everything is more accessible to me. I also vacuumed the entire apartment and cleaned off the bar (it was a mess) hopefully I can get to everything else tomorrow. I dont think Cassie will nap today, I can maybe get the kitchen done when she is awake.