The Jones Girls

Lately the triplets have been climbing on the bar stools in the kitchen wanting to sit down on them.  So I have been allowing them to practice sitting on them and they would sit on them for longer and longer periods of time.    I then started letting them do their drawing, coloring and artwork on the kitchen peninsula on their bar stools.  

Than last week I sat all of them down and fed them breakfast for the first time while they were sitting on the bar stools at the peninsula in the kitchen.  We have a flat screen TV in the kitchen that has satellite and a DVD player.   So I let them watch Sesame Street in the morning and they eat their breakfast while I am drinking my coffee, making Savvy’s lunch for preschool and load/unload the dishwasher and clean up.   

This has been such a huge and wonderful change for me and for them.   I can prepare their meals in the kitchen while they all sit down at the counter.   Previously, I would have to prepare their meals in the kitchen, then load them all up in booster seats at the dining room table, put bibs on, then bring all of their meals out one by one.  Then after they ate I would have to clean them, unload them from the booster chairs, clean the booster chairs, dining room table and floor.   Talk about time consuming.   So now there is no booster seats and I help them climb up and I prepare their food and had it to them right there at the counter/peninsula table.

I do have to do a little sweep up under the bar stools and tidying up, but it is so much easier than cleaning up all around and underneath the dining room table, chairs,  hardwood, and booster seats.

I have also got them trained to eat their snacks at a little picnic table I have in the den for them.  All 4 girls will eat their snacks and watch TV.  Sometimes I will let them have little cups of dry cereal in the morning if I am straightening up the den and I will let them eat at the picnic table in the den and watch TV.

I have been really working with Miranda on potty training this week.  For the past few days she has been peeing 50% in the potty chair and 50% wearing diapers during the day and wearing diapers at night.  Today she has not worn a diaper at all and she has peed on the potty chair and has not had any accidents.  She also pooped in the potty chair for the first time today.  I am so proud of her.   She walked in, said she had to poop, sat on her potty chair and pooped. Just like that!!  I am hoping she will potty train fully in the next couple of weeks.  She has plenty of cute little panties that she loves to wear.  

Amanda and Maryssa are sort of potty training but they are going to take a little longer.  Every time Miranda sits on the potty chair they like to sit down too so hopefully they might learn from Miranda.  My goal is to have everyone potty trained by the Fall 2009 before they start preschool.   The preschool requires them to be potty trained.  They would be going to preschool twice a week in the mornings.

Just a couple of days ago Miranda had taken off her diaper in her room.  She had pooped in her diaper and didn’t want to have the poopy diaper on her.  When she took it off the poop got everywhere.   Ugh.  It was so gross.   So hopefully we are seeing the end of diapers for her soon!!