Rolling and Potty Time

I'm so proud of my two girls.  They've both achieved great milestones in the last two weeks.  Natalie is now potty trained!  She's been doing so great with it since we started two Saturdays ago.  We decided to try the 3-day potty training method with her since the laid back approach was not working with her even though she wants to sit on the potty -- I think she just needed to know the feeling of letting it out when sitting there.  So we put her in underwear as of 10 days ago and she hasn't gone back to diapers since.  She even wore them right away during nap and bedtime.  The first 48 hours were the toughest -- for her and us.  But she didn't have any accidents at nap or bedtime for the first few days and only a 3 or 4 since.  She had one day of regression last Friday but since then she's had no accidents.  We're so proud of her.  She's such a big girl!  She picked out her own underwear to start with (in combination with the ones Oma got her) and of course, they were Disney Princesses.

And our other great news -- Claire started rolling back to tummy this past Sunday!  She's been moving all over while sitting - twisting, turning, and scooting all over.  She finally decided to try this rolling skill out!  And she's so close to crawling.  She inches around on her belly from left to right and even scoots backwards.  Plus she's lunging forward.  I think she's going to start crawling soon.  Here is a video I finally got of her rolling.



We also got Claire a different type of puff to try eating (Teddy Puffs). They are not as light so she's able to grasp them and actually get them in her mouth without them sticking to her hands like the other ones.


Claire started swim class this last weekend.  She loves it!  It's nice being able to spend one on one time with her. Unfortunately the photos didn't turn out that well -- Emile was trying to tackle the camera while keeping Natalie from trying to run in the pool; she didn't like waiting on the deck for us.  I'm hoping to get more photos when Oma and Opa visit in August when Natalie is at home with Emile.

The girls playing: