Potty Time take 2

Potty training has had it's ups and downs so far. Some days are great, others it would be easier to let her live in the bathtub. All in all I think she's getting it though.
We've upgraded to using the big potty most of the time and as long as I remind her she can go most days with no accidents. Training pants and panties are fun for her so far, sometimes not so fun for me. She likes the excitement of everyone making a big deal out of her and her accomplishments.
We've learned which direction panties, pull ups, trainers, and our pants, shorts, and skirts go on. She's learned to wipe, flush, and wash her hands after every potty break.
We are very proud of her accomplishments. Just crossing our fingers she keeps it up and starts doing it all on her own without reminding her.

Potty Time

Our daughter turned two in July of this year, and we’ve been told by several people we need to get her potty trained. That’s easy for them to say, they aren’t the ones doing it. We have a 2 month old baby as well which can make everything more difficult.
We have the potty chair, the pull ups, and the big girl panties. We’ve actually had all those for a while just haven’t had the drive ( and neither had our daughter) to really push it. Well we decided it was time.
We’ve been hardcore potty training for about three days now. She has done really well. Gone all day with a dry pull up, wakes up with a dry one in the morning and after naps. She’s had very few accidents. Then today we get up and she has tummy troubles and isn’t making it to the toilet in time. So much for progress. We’ll just slack off for today and pick it back up tomorrow if she’s feeling better.

I’ve been told to get the cloth training pants and the plastic cover to go over them to help her feel like she’s not still wearing a diaper. Sometimes the pull ups can be confusing. So now we are on the hunt for some training pants. I will also be decorating her very own wipe container forger bathroom and get her some cute kids soap and towels for hand washing after potty time.

She seems to really have the desire to do it tho. Even started refusing her potty chair and started climbing up on the big toilet to go. She’s excited every time she goes, and upset if she has an accident. This is promising since she wants to learn and do it.

We will continue on in our potty training journey and hopefully it won’t take too long to have her completely trained. Pray for us.

Cloth Diapering

I've recently came to the realization that I am doing laundry every day. At least one load if not two. I've also realized diapers are expensive and we are buying for two babies right now. Putting these two thoughts together I came up with cloth diapering. 
Never thought I'd even be considering it because its always seemed so daunting to me and disposables are so much easier. But after my laundry epiphany I thought "what's one more load of laundry added?" 
I've began my research and quite frankly I'm overwhelmed. I reached out to a few friends that currently cloth diaper their babies and got some more direction in the options and what I should look for. I've narrowed down my choices a little but I'm still slightly overwhelmed by all the choices. Fitted? All in one? Pocket? Covers? Snaps? Velcro? Pre folded? 
And then there are several "systems" and brands in each of those choices as well. 
I have quite a bit more research to do before we decide what were gonna go with and then it'll be a matter of finding that set or system for a reasonable price. 

I know normally bloggers don't ask for advice from their readers but if anyone has and info that might help me I'd appreciate it. 

I will defiantly be updating our decisions on this on my blog and let you all know how it's going. 

The Journey

If we’re ever gonna get to this Happy Healthy Home I strive to have then we have to start somewhere.
First step to a Happy Healthy Home started family walks in the evenings. We had supper, gave the kids baths, and then decided to take a few laps around the apartment complex. I’m hoping we can do that every night. A nightly walk will actually do several things. Besides the basic function of helping get the family healthy it also gives us extra family time, and gets me and the girls out of the house (even if it is just literally outside the house). Having two kids under the age of three makes it hard for one person to go anywhere during the day. On occasion we do meet up with my friends and their kids for an outing but on those occasions I have help. By myself it’s easier just to stay home than try to pack everything and everyone up for something as simple as going to the store. So the walk around the parking lot is a good help for my sanity.
Step two to a Happy Healthy Home is potty time. This might seem a bit odd to most but I feel getting potty time under control will really help our family function better. We currently have two children in diapers, our two year old and our 2 month old. So we will be making a change with both of them. Our two year old has now started potty training. We have a potty at our house, a potty at her nana and papaw’s. we have big girl panties ready, her own wipe container ( which will be decorated soon) for her bathroom, and as soon as we find them cloth training pants. With our littlest one we will be switching to cloth diapers. Still researching to find the system that’s right for our family. I will write a post on our potty time journey with more details soon.
Step three to a Happy Healthy Home is financial security. There that’s the easy part, saying it. Now onto the hard part, living it. In an effort to get financial security me and the hubs will be taking a Dave Ramsey financial university class at a local church in September. I’m excited about it, hubby is a little iffy on it just because its not some financial expert teaching the class but just church members. I’ve researched Dave Ramsey methods before and I like, and already use, several of the methods but it’ll be nice to really know how they are supposed to work and put it all together. About a year ago I got a credit report for each of us. Our credit is pretty horrible. Mine from a messy divorce and my husbands from a little too adventurous adolescence and early adulthood. Nothing that can’t be fixed w it’s time but we certainly couldn’t get a decent loan right now. The goal is to learn a lot in this class, put the methods into practice, and be almost debt free in a year.

There are certainly many more steps in our Happy Healthy Home journey but we will take those steps when The Lord is ready to lead us toward them. For now we will just do the best we can with what The Lord has provided us and wait for further inscription from him.