Potty Training in Full Swing

My daughter now 2, is ready to be potty trained. I'm ready too. You finally reached a point where you do not want to deal with buying diapers anymore, cleaning the mess up when you child decides they don't want the diaper on anymore. 

For the last couple of night's when I get home from work I've been changing Mackenna out of her diaper and slipping on her training underwear. They are actually really cool. The ones that my Grandma sent to me are made from Gerber. They are like underwear, except they have a padding in them, So if they start to go, it's not going to make the biggest mess they kinda soak up the pee in a way. She seem's to really like it and enjoy getting the diaper off when I'm home. 

I've set up her portable potty in the living room, in case we need to make a mad dash to get her on the potty if I start to see she is peeing. She kinda squats or stands perfectly still and looks down. That's my Queue. We also, have in our bathroom a 2 step stool and a little seat that sits on the bigger seat of the toilet.

{My Tricks}

1. Running the water with the faucet while she is sitting on the toilet. 

2. Having the portable potty in the living room

3. Sticker Chart, she get's to put a sticker on paper after she goes potty 

(or every time she sits on the potty)

I think the most important thing to do when potty training is to always be encouraging them and never get mad if there is an accident. Also, trying not to get anxious and being calm. If they feel your anxiety and feel pressured they will not be interested. What have you done with your toddler's during potty training? Anything that's worked for you?

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100 Followers

Thanks to all of my awesome followers and reader's I've hit 100 followers.

This is so exciting. 

Thank you to everyone that has followed the Mack to My Cheese.

This weekend recap....

Friday night I went out to the bars with my sister-in-law and Jenny, for some drinks to celebrate,

my sister-in-law Amber's 30th Birthday. I even sang karaoke. :)

Saturday I really enjoyed doing not much of anything. I've been so busy at work, I feel

like I'm never at home. So, when I'm home I don't feel like doing much of anything, but

being a couch potato. We rented movies, and watched movies all day and I slept like crazy.

It's weird after I look back on those days I feel guilty for doing it, but in no way did I feel that 

way on Saturday. Everyone needs a lazy day.. Right!?!

Hope everyone has a good week!

Wordless Wednesday

Mack's 2nd Birthday Party Recap

Dear Mackenna,

You have been our pride and joy for the last 2 years. I never thought I could love someone unconditionally, and you have shown me I can. You bring smiles to my face no matter how tough of a day I had. You have made Daddy and Mommy so happy, and we look

forward to continue to watch your grow. 

Love, Mommy and Daddy

My daughter turned 2 on July 25th, 2010. We had her birthday the following Saturday. Here are some of the photos for those two days. It turned out to be a really good party. 

Meal Plan Monday

This weekend was a very successful weekend. We had Mackenna's 2nd Birthday Party on Saturday, 

and my dad left yesterday after being here since Wednesday.

Here is the meal plan for the week

Monday: 

Cheese Burgers, potato salad

Tuesday:

BLT's

Wednesday:

Chicken & Rice Casserole. 

Thursday:

Orange Chicken and Pot stickers

Friday: 

BBQ Chicken and Salad

Saturday:

Leftovers

Sunday: 

Pork Chops, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, and Cesar Salad

Here is a photo from Mackenna's Birthday.....

I promise to post photos from this weekend soon. 

Birthday Girl and her Cake.

Daddy and Tyson sleeping after the cake was over. :)

Hope you had a great weekend!


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Sorry, I'm a Slacker, my baby turned 2.

Sorry, I've been so busy with Mackenna's 2nd Birthday plans, getting everything ready and my house ready.

The list goes on....

I'm sure all you mommies out there know how it can be when you are trying to plan the best birthday party.

R.I.P my desktop computer, after only 18 months the motherboard goes out.. Perfect... :( I have a love and hate relationship with technology. 

My Dad arrives into town tomorrow morning... If you've been following Fat Friday's, I will be sharing the winner 

this Friday. I think I have my dad beat, but stay tunned for the results. 

Sunday, Was Mackenna's actual Birthday, but party day is this Saturday. I can't wait. 

Still so much to do. 

How was your weekend? 

And here is a picture of the Birthday girl from Sunday.

Twitter.. Smacked me in the face.

Sometimes I live blindly in my life and forget that sometimes we live in cruel world. I've really enjoyed blogging since I started a couple of months ago and I've met so many awesome and amazing woman/mother's out there. I started a twitter account a little bit ago to what all the hype was about, because I didn't really see the point having a Facebook in all. Let me give you my story why I've lost faith in people for a brief moment yesterday and how this world can very cruel to you because of what you believe in and what you think is right. 

{Twitter}

Yesterday, someone tweeted about when to start real milk and transitioning from formula. I tweeted a reply and stated that I see a homeopathic doctor for my daughter and she told me that I could start milk anytime I wanted and to ease it in slowly and see how she likes it. 

That's all I said to this person...

Don't worry it wasn't her that said anything to me. Then I got a reply to that tweet to me saying: if you take your daughter to a homeopathic Doctor, that must mean you haven't vaccinated. Right?

I though for minute, maybe she is just curious. I replied back and stated, that no at this time I haven't vaccinated my child. She then came back to me and said well I hope you child doesn't die based on your irresponsibilities as a parent and good luck. 

I was shocked, my blood was boiling inside me. I would never judge another

person based on their decisions as a parent. How can someone say something so cruel and nasty to another. I've never even met this person she tweeted me out of nowhere. I finally got the courage and asked if she had children. To my surprise, she told me no. I told her that I think it's best to leave me alone because I'm an actual parent and making the best decision I can for my daughter. I also, told her that her opinions could change once she had a living, breathing thing to care for.

I was so heated, I left and went on a walk and came back to another tweet from someone else that I've

never spoke to before joining in on the conversation. 

This was her tweet to me: 

I wonder if antivax is genetic? Cause when your kids die of a preventable disease, at least the gene will be out of the pool.

I looked up this person's profile and she happened to be only 15 years old. 

By this point I was done and logged off twitter for most of the day.

I'm not the mom of the year, and I'm not perfect by any means. However, I don't think anything is worse then being challenged on what you think is right as a parent to your own child. I'm already feeling a little better after sharing this with you, but still can't believe what happened yesterday.

Thankful for the followers I do have and your great comments.