Potty training time!!!

Ok so today is Jan.2.2012 and we decided to start potty training our little Alana-Teuila since she has been showing a few signs of wanting to go toilet on her own....not sure how it'll go cause she is a ummm..I guess you could say stubborn but we will see....My twins potty trained so easy and at 2yrs old but every child is different so if this fails we'll haft to just go with the flow....with the twins we did lots of dry food and lots of drink...so thats what we started off with... cheerios, waffles, chex cereal and lots of sobelifewater, water and water/juice..and FRUIT LEATHER for her reward when she actually goes POTTY plus her favorite books to keep her busy while we wait...lol

Day 1:

It took her 2 hours before she finally decided to pee.. but, unfortunately it was on the ground in our room(not cool) lots of resolve and scrubbing, two minutes later on the ground in the bathroom, 2 minutes after changing her 2nd panty pee again on the kitchen floor, 1 minute later pee on the ground right as we were putting on her panty, hmmm....(not really doing so well).. lets keep going 3 minutes later she starts to say No. No. NO....and pee AGAIN!!!! But this time it was half in the toilet and half right outside her potty that was a little better, I wasn't sure if we had enough Clorox wipes to sanitize the floor...uggh...well, then finally when she had to go the 6th time she said NO NO NO...and YAY!! Hallelujah she went potty and got a piece of fruit leather for going...7th attempt she said NO NO NO...so we ran her to the toilet and nothing...we did that 4 more times and then the 5th time she went to the toilet Yay!!!! then it was nap time and we decided a diaper would be best. When she woke from her nap we put her panty back on she her first potty was a #2 we were so proud of her she actually got a Bigger bite of the fruit leather as her reward...and she did well her first day.

Day2: Jan.4.2012

We potty trained Teuila in the morning but we had to run our children into town for their Dentist appointments plus we also had errands so it messed things up a little with the whole potty training. We had 3 hours of having Teuila in her Panty before we had to stick her back into her diaper so we could go into town. But when we came home she went to the toilet twice before it was bed time. She gets really distracted at times but she lets us know by saying NO NO NO...and then we run her to the toilet, it feels weird that our little one is growing up too fast, I love looking at her chubby thighs but then when I start to get sad when I see the big girl panty on her :..( so far shes been doing a great job at potty training, lets hope day three is just as good..

Crockpot gets two thumbs up!

Ok so about a year ago my father in law purchased half a cow from a friend. I know right sounded weird well at least it did to this island girl when I first was told about it. But, after a little explaining to this (duh) island girl I learned that people out here and probably all over the US get their meat by going to a butcher shop. Ok like I dont think hawaii has that, or ill be surprised if they do. So anyways, you go there and u tell them you want half a cow or a whole cow and then you tell them what type of meat cuts you want and they cut and wrap it for you. I know your all probably thinking why the heck didn't she know this? Lol well I guess because hawaii don't have farms? I don't know....so to make a long story short, we had all these meats from hamburger meat to all kinds of steaks in the freezer so I decided to look up recipes for crockpot nd low and behold there are many recipes out there. Today I cooked or T bone steak in the crock pot and it was a hit. I called it mushroom steak. I'll add pictures later...YUMO! I also made tomato sirloin steak in the crock pot and my kids loved it. Cant wait for the next crockpot meal. Yay for crockpot. Well that's all for now but, can't wait to share my ultimate favorite food to eat anytime of the day.....good day!