Potty training a princess--warning...contains "potty talk"

Today I started the down and dirty process of potty training my princess.  We have had the basics down for awhile and just haven't done the "cold turkey, no more diapers" part yet.  So when she woke up this morning I told her that she was too big for her princess pullups and mommy had gotten her some "princess panties".  The first words out of her mouth?  "I don't like a princess panties, I don't like a princess panties.  I want my princess pullup I not want a princess panties"  Sigh.  she definitely has a mind of her own.  She was dry though so I just proceeded to carry her to the bathroom and sit her on the toilet.  Way to go...success on our first try of the day. Fast forward an hour.  We are sitting at the dining room table and she announces that she has to go potty(yay for her), but not in time.....flood on my dining room chair...straight through the cushion.  She was NOT HAPPY.  There were many tears and lots of very fast talking about not liking princess panties.  I dried her tears and we picked out another pair of the dreaded princess panties.  She did so good the rest of the afternoon.  I reminded her about every 45 minutes or so. She went on the potty all day.  I did put her in a pullup for nap and she was wet when she woke up, but right back to the panties we went.

Fast forward again...to after supper...Mommy has to go to the store.  I hurried...I really did. When I got back she had pooed in her underwear.  I was just thrilled to be greeted that way.  Ugh.  I cleaned her up with much talk about how we put the poo in the pot.  She was all tears and "I'm sorries"(that's her big thing....great big crocodile tears and I'm sorry over and over).  I had her all cleaned up and was going to deal with the mess and get more offensive princess panties when she FELL IN THE TOILET.  She never forgets to put her little adapter up, but she sure did this time.  A wail that rose the hairs on my neck came from the bathroom and I raced back just in time to see her pulling herself out of the "poopy water"  Can we say early bathtime? and another round of awful princess panties?  LOL....she's doing really good and I'm proud but the next few days are going to be interesting.

No school for the big kids today!

I LOVE it when school is out for my older sons.  Just to have them home is wonderful even if we don't do anything special.  Today probably qualifies for a "nothing special" day because of JR's fever but we'll enjoy it anyway.  I was hoping to take them to a place called Deana Rose Farmstead.  It is a FREE place in our area that is sort of like a barnyard zoo.  They have all of the barnyard type animals plus for an extra amount(not too much) you can fish, take a pony ride or go on a hay ride....I think that's all...even if you don't do the extras the kids have a blast.  Another day maybe.

I cleaned out our larger fish tank this morning and dumped the old water on our flower garden out front.  Jaker got to learn about one natural way to get rid of slugs in your flowerbed.....he salted it.  He thought that was crazy, but was pretty amazed when it worked.  I remember when we lived in Germany the rain would bring the slugs out in droves....they would cover the sidewalk and I hated to have to go out when they were out.  I think they are so gross...ewwww!!!!