Naked day went pretty well, overall. She
napped, naked, and woke up dry. We went outside for awhile and
I was hesitant to put pants on her (but more hesitant not to!),
but she did great! All went well until the evening when they
both were struck with diarrhea, which created a messy evening.
I just got done mopping the floors! :) We’ll try again
tomorrow. Or maybe we’ll go out for some 4th of July fun, since
we accidentally missed the local fireworks tonight. Silly me
assumed they were actually ON the 4th of July! Lex is very
excited about fireworks and he’ll be sad to find out we missed
the local ones. Anyway, a good day otherwise.

We were playing in the arts & crafts
drawer today and Eve decided to make a necklace. Lex, of
course, wanted to play too. I was surprised at how good both of
them were at stringing the beads on. Last time we tried it
neither of them were quite coordinated enough. They really had
fun today.

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I read an article awhile back about potty
training in 3 days. One thing that caught my eye was their
suggestion to have the child go completely naked for the first
few days. They said that if the kid is wearing pants or
underwear they are more likely to be confused and have
accidents. I’ve seen this a lot in Eve lately. She wants
underwear but has lots of accidents, but then she will tell me
she peed in her diaper (while wearing underwear) or get upset
about peeing in underwear, even though she is really in a
diaper. Anyway, she definitely seems to be confused by that.
The other day I stripped her down after dinner and let her run
around for awhile, and after a few minutes she ran right to the
bathroom and peed on the potty! So I decided to try some naked
time for a few days to see if we can kick this diaper habit
once and for all! So far, so good! She was naked all morning,
very happily, and used the potty with no accidents. I was going
to hold off on blogging until tonight, but the below picture is
so funny I can’t resist posting it now. She used the potty
right before I took a shower, so I thought (hoped!) it would be
safe to leave her unattended for a few minutes. They were
watching a show, I took a quick shower, and came down to find
this:

 

The
silly girl got up, got her potty, put it on the couch, climbed
on, and peed! She was happily sitting on a potty full of pee,
watching TV. I’m so thankful that she didn’t pee on the couch
and also thankful that she didn’t try to get off the full
potty! Whewh!!! I told her to sit still for one second longer
while I grabbed the camera :)

This
picture is just to remind myself that it is summer and we do,
occasionally, see the sun. It’s been many, many days, but it
came out for a few minutes this morning. Yay!