Ella Kate's Good Girl Chart

I decided to start a rewards chart with Ella Kate to help her in certain areas where we need some improvement. She has been having major emotional meltdowns when I drop off her at school lately, so I was hoping this rewards chart could help us with that and other things like Pottying, bedtime, brushing her teeth, picking up her toys, and being a good listener. For the Potty category, she gets a sticker if she has less than two accidents that day. And for the bedtime category, she gets a sticker only if she sleeps in her big girl bed all night.

At the end of the week, if she at least 5 stickers in one or more category, she will get to go to the store and pick out a prize. If she has 5 or more stars in more than one category, she can pick out an additional prize.

There is also a seperate chart for Pottying called the Potty Train, each time she pottys she gets a star sticker, when she reachs the end of the train, we will reward her with a trip to Chuck E Cheese!!!

We started the chart this week and she has done pretty well! Shet gets very excited about being able to put her stickers on. But, she would rather put the stickers on Dora, Boots, and Hello Kitty rather than where they belong on the chart. As you can see we need to work on our behaves at school(she cried everyday but Thursday) and our good listening skills. But she did do really well with her bedtime this week which is a major improvement so she will get to go and pick out some prizes this weekend!!!

Riley and the Jumperoo

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Beach Trip

We went to Florida for the weekend and had a wonderful time! The girls loved the beach and had so much fun! Ella Kate was a little fishy in the water and loved building sandcastles. Riley loved nappin' under the beach umbrella. Ella Kate even made a friend the first day on the beach and then asked "Where Maddie was?" the rest of the weekend. We took lots of pics to document our trip! It was a ton of fun, but I think Scott and I both need a vacation from our vacation! Hauling Two kids and all of their stuff to the beach was some work! Ella Kate was sad to say goodbye to the ocean and sand but ready to go home and see her buddy Roux!

More Potty Progress

Ella Kate is really starting to get the hang of thing whole Potty thing! Got a note from her teacher yesterday that she was accident free all day! Very exciting!! And she even told me she needed to go Potty last night before she actually went! This is huge, usually I have to just keep taking her every 30-45 min or she tells me right as she is starting to go. I am so proud of her, she is such a Big Girl!!!!

POTTY TIME!!!!

We have been working with Ella Kate and potty training. I did a relaxed version of the 3 day potty training over the weekend. I say relaxed becuase we had plans on the 4th of July so I could not really keep her home all weekend.

Day 1-she did pretty good. MeMe came over to help us out, thank goodness! We went through about 20 pairs of undies with the tee tee accidents, but she was aware she was going and would tell me everytime. I never knew a child could tee so much, but we had her drinking so much and the lil piggy almost ate an entire watermelon all by herself. By 930a I was already exhausted! But by midday, we had our first successful potty expereince and then she went several more times in the potty that afternoon. That evening I had just finished bathing her and she told me she needed to go and she went on the big potty. I was so proud of her!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you could tell she was so proud of herself! But the little stingy thing kept asking for more prizes!!!

Day 2-(4th of July)-she woke up dry and went potty after a few attempts. Then we went swimming so who knows! But she did try to potty after our swimming but nothing happened. She tried a few more times that day and was about 50/50.

Day 3-Same thing, 50/50 but would tell me everytime. We just need to work on her getting to the potty in time. She tells me as she is going instead of telling me she needs to go.

Monday was her first day back at daycare and I told them to work with her becuase we had been working on it all weekend. When I picked her up yesterday, they told me she had a GREAT first day of potty training at school. They said she stayed dry till almost noon yesterday and went potty several times. They said she was wet right before lunch so one accident. She stayed dry during her nap and pottied afterwards. I was so excited she did so well, so proud of her!!!! They said she had another good day yesterday at school, only one accident. She wore her big girl panties to school today so we will see how she does!

Now, poop is another story! She has not pooped in her potty this whole time, but I hear that can take awhile. She pooped once in her potty a few months ago, but nothing since.

We will keep on working at it! Never knew potty training could be so exciting, rewarding(the look on her face when I tell her how proud I am of her), and stressful all at the same time!