Umami Burger

We have been hearing a lot about the infamous Umami burger so we decided to try it out last night. Jade was very excited to go because she really liked to say OOOMAMI. I ordered the Hatch burger which has lots of green chillies, and Dan ordered the original Umami with bacon lard bits. We concluded that they were good but definitely not worth the price of $12 per burger which does not include fires! It is actually a lot smaller than it looks in the picture. I will not ever be eating there again, not entirely from the steep prices but because last night it made a reappearance in my toilet. I don't think it sat well with Jade either. Last night was the first night since I can remember that she had a really hard time going to sleep. She didn't fall asleep until 10pm last night! Just thinking about this makes my stomach hurt again.

Try it if you dare!

stuck at home

For the next while I'm not allowed to lift Jade at all. This is what we came up with to get Jade in her crib. The way out of the crib isn't as easy. I still don't know if she can climb in her car seat so we will probably just be hanging around the apartment for awhile. It's only the second day and we are getting bored. If anyone wants to come visit, we'd love to have you!!

*If you can't tell, Jade is singing Little Bunny Foo Foo! Auntie Jordan just taught it to her yesterday and she hasn't stopped singing it!

potty update

So I decided to continue with the potty training. Yesterday 6 times in the potty with one accident and today 7 times in the potty with no real accidents. Jade would be 100% potty trained if I just took her to the potty every couple of hours. Whenever I have her sit and she has to go she will. The problem that I'm having is I want her to learn to tell me the she needs to go. The book says that to train her to do this I can't take her to go potty. I have to wait until I see her start going and then run her to the potty so she can learn the feeling of needing to go. So I tried this method today. Jade is really good about starting to go just a little and then stopping it. So I really had to watch her carefully. A couple of the pees today I saw that she went a little so then I took her to the potty to finish. She still hasn't told me that she needed to go. I think that will come with a little more days of practice. I'm so shocked how well this is going though. We even went to the beach today! 30 min drive there and back with no diaper! We did take her potty chair all the way out on the sand so she could go if she needed. It was pretty funny!! I'm going to Disneyland on Wednesday so that's my goal to be done with the training. Wish us luck!

I'm a big girl now

So I had to do a quick post because I am in shock! All along I said I was going to potty train Jade when she turned 22 months because the book that I like on potty training says that's the best age. As Jade was getting closer and closer to 22 months I have been thinking that maybe I would push it back to right before she turns 2. She just seems so young. She has gone pee pee in the potty for a while now. She goes every now and then when I put her on the potty. On Sunday Jade went #2 in the potty chair for the very first time. She didn't go #2 yesterday so I knew she would have to today so all morning I reminded her to tell me if she needed to go. Well, I saw the look on her face that she needed to go and sure enough she went again on the potty and also went pee. I then decided that we better go to Target to buy some princess panties so we could have them on hand just in case. Before we left her diaper was still dry so I put her on the potty and she went again!! We got home from Target with a dry diaper so I sat on the potty and she went again!! She then ate lunch and played for awhile and before nap I had her try and again she went. I think she is telling me that she is ready. It is so crazy because the book says to start potty training at 22 months and she turned 22 months yesterday!

I know we have still a LONG road ahead of us but it has been a great start. She's taking her nap right now with a diaper on but I will probably put the panties on again when she wakes up. I'm not really sure how I'm going to go about night time and everything else, but it's been good just playing it by ear. Wish us luck! Hopefully this wasn't just a fluke!

Don't you just want to squeeze her little bum in those panties??

i am a child of god

I did bribe her to sing the song by telling her that she could watch a little of the show Bubble Guppies. That is why at the end she cheers for Bubble Guppies!

sleep over

Last night Dan attempted to have a sleepover with Jade again. The last he tried was almost a year ago and it ended pretty much the same. Jade woke up crying and Dan eventually ended up back in our bed. I don't blame her, I wouldn't want to sleep on the hard ground either!

The first attempt last year! She was so little!

Come home soon

Dan has been in Chicago for work and we miss him!!!

I

LOVE

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DADDY!