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So big news!!! One of then is that my little brother is getting married next year!!!! Congrats Ghislain and Joline on your engagement!!!!!

And the other big news is that Rebekah is diapers free!!!! Spent the night and all day yesterday in big girl underwear and no accident!!!!

Happy Canada day to you all Canadian readers!

WW: Happy Canada Day!

Got to go on the go

I know another potty training post! But around here right now if is not teething it's potty training. Isn't life as a stay at home mom interesting!

For the last week we have been intensively potty training Rebekah, and if you read my previous post you would see that Rebekah is doing very well!

But I wonder if she would still be doing good when we are not at home! Well, she is doing very very good. She will ask to go and we went for 7 hours outside our little home without any accident!!!!

And for the last 2 night Rebekah woke up dry and ask to go!!!! So 2 night accident free! I'm very impress with my little monkey, but I bias I know!!!!

Could you share your potty training experience with me !

Happy dance

For the past couple days Rebekah as been using the potty a lot more then before. I always was Ecing with her but after Sarah was born(7 month ago) potty training kinda took a few step backward :-(

But Rebekah is now fully ready to be in potty training mode!!!! We had some cloth training pants, but the smallest size that I found was still to big for my little monkey. Also she had a difficult time to pull them on and off (they were so bulky.

I try 2 days with underwear, she loved to put them on and off but for accident they were not the best (yap she poop 2 times and went trough everything including my skirt!!!!)

So we decided to buy the no name (very cheap) training pants (yap disposable) and withing 2 days Rebekah only had 2 pee accident during the day (night time is a different ball game) and she will go when I ask her to go potty but she is also going when she needs to go all by herself(even without me seeing it or telling her to). This morning after breakfast I was cleaning the kitchen and she came to me with a pot full and she was so proud of herself!!!

So we did the POTTY DANCE, it's her reward for a job well done! We also do high five, clap hands and sometimes food reward.

What are your potty training tips and what reward did you use?

WW: Is she doing Tai Chi?

Rain drops keeps falling on my head

I don't know about what is your weather where you live but here for the past couple of days and for the rest of the weeks it's and will be raining :-( And I have to admit it's starting to affect my mood. I need a bit of sunshine!!!!

Other thing that happen since I last wrote over here:

- I've been very busy with housework, chicken, potty training and teething.

My house is looking more like a home now and less of the tornado disaster, our garden is growing well, flower bed is looking good and our chickens have now their red feathers and in a few more weeks we will have fresh eggs!

Rebekah as only had one pee and one poo accident in the last 3 days!!!! I so very proud of her, she is growing so fast! She is now saying word in signs, French and English (she is just making sure that we will understand her and she will get what she wants hehe)

Sarah is growing like a weed, sitting ON HER OWN, doing a bit of crawling. Nursing a lots, try some mash bananas today and she loved it!!!! will try some sweet potatoes later.

So as you could see the Stam's house has been busy busy busy. Hoping to be back here and reading you all soon :-)

I guess I'm a routine girls after all

I never taught I would be the kind of person that you would be saying about "Oh she like her routine!" But I've notice that I do have a sort of routine going on lately.

Since we move out of the city I've been spending more and more time at home. I do not have a home routine like waking up, eating, cleaning at the same time same day etc... I could call myself flexible that way (I guess you have to be when you have a hyper toddler and a 6 months old baby!)

My routine is more like thing needs to be done around the house and the needs of Harry and the girls needs to be fulfill. So I usually do what needs to be done more urgently depending on what is the priority at that time and at the end of the day what needed to be done is done.

But now you might be thinking "So What about routine?" Well! One routine that I'm very not flexible with is bedtime (nap time on the other hand is more like If your tired your going to bed type of deal, even if it means 3 or 4 short nap a day!"

So to come back to the title of this post. I've been noticing since that we moved here and that I'm spending more time at home (I have to admit I barely leave this house). And I get so tired when I need to leave home that I don't want to go anywhere anymore. I love having people over but rarely leave to to visit others.

Sunday is pretty much the only day that I leave home to go to church and packing diaper bag, getting ready for a certain time, getting everybody up and feed before we leave, dealing with disciplining outside our home etc.... Make me soooo tired.

It's so much easier doing all those thing at home!

Am I the only one that feels this way?

WW: Girly girls

I never taught I would say this...

... I miss my dishwasher!!!!!

When my husband bought it about 1 year ago, I was wondering why do we need a dishwasher. But now that i got use to it, I'm wondering how did I manage to live without it!!!!

Last night it was 11:45 pm before I was done washing all the dirty dishes ( I was only able to start doing them late after both girls were asleep) So I went to bed way to late and as soon as I it the bed Sarah wanted to nurse, it never fail LOL.

So Harry as been trying to fix our dishwasher but no luck as yet! Hopefully it will be fix soon. SO the little one are napping time for me to do YES some more dishes!!!!

Ugly stage chicks

Our cute yellow fuzzy little chicks are not so cute anymore! Yap they are in the stage when they have some of their feathers out but not all of them! So they are kinda like teenagers, a bit awkward!

I know they soon will be beautiful red hens, but for now they are ugly!!!!

My second youngest sister inlaw have been staying here with us for the past week (Inlaws are in the states for a conference)It been fun having an extra set of hands to help take (playing) with our girls but it also been challenging! Rebekah and aunt Maria (9 years old) sometimes got into bit of fight (Like sisters would) so it was hard not to discipline both of them because Maria is still a kids but not my own. She is leaving tonight or tomorrow so I think Rebekah will still miss her aunt despite the quarreling!

I have to get ready because we are invited for supper, have a nice day you all!

One out an another soon to be

Sarah just cut her first tooth an their is another one on the way!!!! If she is like Rebekah she will have almost all her teeth before she is 1!!!

The Zoo today was tuns of fun Rebekah love running around to see all the animals!!! Now it's time for bed the kiddos as asleep and I'm exhausted! Today was lots of fun but got me very tired!!!

Day trip

The Stam Family are going to be out for the day! We are going to the Zoo!!!! and to top this off it's a beautiful day!!!!

So we are off to see Lion, bear, monkeys etc... but wait I see a monkey everyday at home, what would she learn from seeing a real one now!!!!!

Have a great day!

Grass bananas!

Here is a bit of conversation that happen on the way to town yesterday.

Harry: fresh mowed grass smell sweet like bananas.

Me: hummmm!? (wondering is my nose is weird thinking that mowed grass just smell like grass)

My conversation with my husband are always interesting, can wait to see how interesting it will get when Rebekah will be able to hold a real conversation !!!

Sweet craving no calorie

I know that all of you mama's wants to give healthy snack to our families! I have to admit since my pregnancies I develop a sweet tooth that I never had before.

Both how to satisfies that sweet craving and not adding some calorie? This is my sweet and simple idea!

Slice some apple and sprinkles some nutmeg on them, you'll be surprise how sweeter the apple are going to be plus it's good for you and your kids will love it!

Nutmeg could also be added to lots of thing! My favorite is on plain yogurt sooo yummy!

Do you have any tips for sweet snack with no sugar added?

pictures of the chicks

Aren't they cute!