Grandma came to town!

Grandma came to town! As my previous posts claimed, she drove up from Atlanta with us after we have Levi's blessing. We started off on Monday by doing a big grocery shopping trip. Man. It is so much easier to go shopping when there is another person there to push a cart with the babes in it. Stores like Aldi only have space for a toddler in the basket and not more. My carseat does not fit in any basket so it goes in the cart. When I shop at Aldi I find myself putting Levi in a pack on me and Addilyn in the basket of the cart.

 Tuesday we started potty training. That is right. Potty training. Now maybe it wasn't so wise of me to choose my mom to help with this seeing as how she did not really potty train either my brother or me. But we did it. Day 1 we had 3 accidents right off. But by that 3rd one it was right beside the potty. She just didn't make it to sit on it. That was a really good sign!

Day 2 she had one accident. Day 3 none. It went on like that for the rest of the time my mom was here (with one random accident in between). We used the nude method. After 5 days of potty training, we were able to put panties on her and she could pull them off and on by herself. Addilyn is a rock star. She still wears diapers when she is snoozing or while we are out. However she's getting close to not having to wear them out. I'd say possibly in the next week or so she will be good. We are just working on controlling it and holding it until we get somewhere.

While my mom was here we also went swimming. I love this park. It's only a $1 for the rest of the summer.

One day at the pool I had put an invite on Facebook to anyone who wanted go. Sitting here from left to right: Levi, Luke, Eli. Grandma was having fun playing grandma to all 3.

Our last Saturday we went to the Eskelsen's house. Addilyn rode a horse for the first time and loved it! She was in love. After we were all hot and sweaty from that we went swimming in their pool. It was such a nice day!

One thing Addilyn knows how to do is nails. So she had Grandma doing hers.

In the end we had a great time with grandma. She was such a great sport with potty training. She brought stickers and a chart and gave the biggest hugs when Addi did her thing. The morning after grandma left, Addilyn had gone potty and then ran out calling for Grandma to let her know she went potty. Poor girl. I wasn't enough for her. :(