Lonna's milestone

We have been putting off trying get Lonna potty trained until we moved. So, last week we decided it was time to give her the full court press. LaDonna gets all the credit for this, because the first day was very rough and there were accidents, false alarms, and communication issues (terms to describe what she did, or needed to do). However, the second day was just short of a miracle. Lonna went pee-pee in the potty several times and NO accidents. The third day we saw even more progress. She was getting undressed and getting on the potty herself. Sometimes she would go, sometimes it was a false alarm. I think she probably took off her pants about 20 times, no exaggeration. She had one accident yesterday, but overall we are very happy with her achievement and how fast she took on this new and exciting challenge in her life. We thought Oreo cookies were going to be the reward, but LaDonna introduced ice cream cones and they have been a huge hit with Lonna. So, now every time she "stinkies" in the potty she gets an ice cream cone. We're going to eventually kill this reward, but for now it's working and we love not having the diapers to change. We still have some work to do because during sacrament meeting she claimed she needed to use the potty 3 times and none of them were the real deal. We have also not been putting a diaper on at night and she hasn't had any accidents, so I think we'll take the progress and work with her on knowing when she really needs to go versus when it is fun or gets her out of sitting in church.

Moving progress

We’re all moved in and mostly unpacked. We have begun to get organized, but haven’t hung anything on the walls yet.

I’m working from home this week and will be gone all next week, including our 7th anniversary, except for Friday. LaDonna’s mom is coming to stay with her, us the time I’m home, from the 20th to the 26th. I leave on the 25th again and come home on the 27th. I’ll have to see what progress we can make on the house between now and Monday. I’m sure LaDonna and her mom will get some things done while I’m gone, but I’d like to be here to help on some of them.

We went to church Sunday and found out that there are 6 other active families at church that live in our subdivision and I’d guess there are about 200 houses in the subdivision. It’s not Utah but we had 250 in our last community and only one other member couple lived near us. One of the families we met that lives one street over has a 3 year old girl and a 10 month old son and the parents were both nice.

We also met Kimberly Harris’ sister-in-law’s brother and sister-in-law. They live less than a mile from us and seemed very nice. They also have two sons, one that is older than Bryce by about 5-6 months and a new born.

Overall, we’re adjusting, it’s hard not knowing where the closest stores are without having to go to the internet and then once you get in the stores we don’t know exactly where everything is, but we’ll get there.