Toddler Activities

Bay and I had such a busy day today. I'm now exhausted!! And he is finally sound asleep, along with his big brother and sister.

We started off the day with dropping Izzy and Zay at school, we then went shopping, had lunch together, cleaned up a bit and then got stuck into an arvo of fun activities. 

We made playdoh and spent a good half hour rolling it and cutting out shapes, we did some threading with straws, we played with pompoms and we got out our coloured rice and had a play with it and some plastic animals. Then after the older children got home we cleaned up their rooms and watched some Peppa Pig (a favorite in our house) and made some yummy spaghetti bolognese for dinner. Yummo! 

That's not to mention how exhausting toilet training is!


Last night I was up until 1am, I was completely lost in my new project and I didn't notice the time. I am currently making printables for folders to organize my life and finances and whatever else I can organize. Once I am done - and figure out how - I will upload them for you guys to print and use.

Ok well I think thats about all I have the energy for tonight. Make sure you check out my links, If you have little ones there might be some ideas for you to try out.


Yours in this crazy world of parenting,

Sami :-)

What a day

Well oh my gosh. So frustrated.

I finally sat down to get working on my website today, seven hours later and I am just so over it! Because of course nothing is going right. And after 7 hours sitting at the table working on it my back is drilling. It's a good thing that I don't quit easily, because I wouldn't mind quitting right now.

Ah well tomorrow is a new day! Thankfully. Then that lovely weekend will be making an appearance again! Yay!

On the up side, Bay had a wonderful second day of toilet training. He had an accident this morning just after breakfast, then he went to daycare and at some point in the morning he had another accident and then that was it for the day, he spent the rest of it using the toilet like a pro! So so proud! I guess I picked the perfect time to get started! Wont be long now until nappies are a thing of the past! Now that is good news!

Logan went back to work last night after two weeks off and I was surprised at how well I just fell back into routine. I've gotta say, being at home alone at night certainly is a lot easier than it used to be. 

I know this isn't much of a post but I'm having so much trouble thinking and I'm yawning so often (I'm talking every like, 30 seconds) that I can hardly see what I'm doing. 

It's tiring work being a studying mum, or, I should just say, a Mum.

Yours in this crazy world of parenting,

Sami :-)

I made it through the day

So here we are at the end of day one of toilet training. I admit that it did get a little stressful by the end. After the first two wee's in the potty that was it. Suddenly it wasn't fun anymore so it didn't happen. I've chosen not to reward him with lollies and he doesn't like stickers, because I don't want the kids to learn that they should do things only when they receive material rewards, so without bribery, all I have left is a little hope. And of course the art of persuasion. 

You know what though? We will get there! It's only day one and for day one he did a wonderful job. Tomorrow he will be back at daycare so hopefully all the other children going to the toilet will encourage him to go too. Just in case, I have packed his bag with every change outfit he has. Which probably isn't as many as you would assume.

But that isn't all the excitement that happened today.

This afternoon when Logan went out to pick Izzy and Zay up, and I was out the back hanging washing, Bay moved his chair to the front door, opened it and went for a wander.

So of course I freaked out and went looking for him. First off I should probably mention that we live in a gated community where the speed limit is only 5km/h and there is a huge sign out the front warning cars to be careful as children are more often than not playing on the road. For this reason, I was not as freaked out as I would have been if we were living on an ordinary street. That's not to say that I wasn't freaking out.. but I wasn't quite at the point of calling the police.

Anyway, when I did find him he was walking with a very judgmental woman who had obviously never made a mistake in her life. Despite Bitchy McBitch needing to have her say about my poor parenting, and probably planning on evil eyeing me and every other young parent from now on (if she didn't already), I had my boy back! So whatever.

 I'm honestly surprised he got as far as he did, he had no shoes on and the road was burning my feet. All he had for me though was smiles and giggles so I guess it all worked out in the end.

When I got home I put a nail in the wall up high near the front door with the screen door key hanging from it. Problem Solved.

Well I best be getting some sleep I guess, I really need to get my website started tomorrow. Wish me luck!


Yours in this crazy world of parenting,

Sami :-)

Toilet training - The start

When I picked Bay up from daycare last night, his teacher told me that in the Sr Kindy room, they don't supply nappies like they did in the other rooms, and she offered to start working with me in getting Bay toilet trained. I had been thinking about toilet training a lot for the last 6 months, and while I have encouraged him to sit on the potty from time to time, it never really got us anywhere. He grew to be comfortable on the potty which was great - when it came time to toilet train Zay we had a fair bit of trouble even getting him to sit on the potty - but he just never did a wee and I didn't want to push him as I feel it is important for little ones to be 100% ready.

So after some thought I decided now seems like a good time to get started; Bay complains that his nappy needs changing as soon as he soils it and is interested when we use the toilet, especially when his big brother does and he is at the point now where he understands his bodily functions. 

The daycare help is extremely important in this as he is there four times a week. We hope that the other children using the toilets there would encourage him to use the toilet too.

Today is Bays day off daycare so after dropping Izzy and Zay at school, Bay and I took a trip to Big W to buy his first ever pairs of jocks. He wasn't really interested while at the store however when we got home and I pulled them out of the packet he was instantly excited and started taking his pants off. After selecting the perfect pair (grey with little cars that say 'beep beep' and 'vroom vroom', Bay put them on and was just so proud if them.

He tried standing at the toilet first but that wasn't working for him even though he was busting because he had to stand on his tiptoes (the stool is just a tad too high to be used at the toilet) and I believe that he just wasn't relaxed enough because after running back to the toilet and trying for the fifth time in 5 minutes he finally decided sitting on his cool Disney Cars potty would be the best plan and he did a wee straight away.

We have only now been home for an hour and he has already done a wee on the potty twice! The first time was his first time ever!! Woohoo!! 

He's now laying on the sofa looking like he's going to go to sleep, this toilet training thing is exhausting for little ones!

Well I think it is pretty safe to say that it is going rather well so far! So proud of my mini man :-D

Yours in this crazy world of parenting,

Sami :-)