she's got her head in the clouds...

My daughter is the craziest little girl with the biggest imagination ever!! so when it's late and we're driving home, she'll always have a conversation with her "lumpy" the heffalump from Winnie the Pooh. (thank you Becky for that, she can't sleep without it) she'll say "lumpy, I'm coming, don't sleep with out me!!" and she'll say it over and over again until me or Vince say something back for lumpy, after we say something like "ok I won't" she'll have a conversation with him the whole way home with us talking for lumpy. Well last night that changed, she didn't talk to lumpy, she started talking to the clouds in the sky. :) funny huh? she said " hi clouds" and of course I had to talk for them... here's the conversation...

Chloe: cloud, are you a dinosaur? you look like a dinosaur.
Cloud: yep, I'm a dinosaur.
Chloe: You have your hand sticking out, can I give you a high-five?
Cloud: yeah..

then she gave the cloud a high five, then we turned and that one was gone, but she found a "little baby cloud" here was that conversation...

Chloe: why are you not by your daddy? are you lost?
Baby Cloud: no, I'm going to sleep all by myself
Chloe: oh ok goodnight

It was so funny. It's really cute when she has conversations with everything. I just hope she doesn't do that her entire life, then people will think she's really crazy ;)

potty training...CHECK!!!

So Chloe is now officially potty trained!!!! wahoo!!! it took FOREVER!! and it was alot more expensive then I thought it would be. First I thought i'll need to buy a stool, a couple potty seats, stickers and treats for rewards. Well, when the stickers and treats weren't working, we got desperate and told her when she filled up all her boxes on the chart we made she could get anything she wanted, she picked a wagon... did you guys know wagons are over 100 bucks?!?! well I guess the red metal ones aren't but those are really shallow and she probably wouldn't fit in it very well, I want to get her one of those plastic ones she can actually sit in. so anyway...she did good for like 2 days maybe, then she stopped going! she refused to poop in the toilet!! it was so frustrating we tried so many things and it didn't work, we told her it was ok to have accidents like everybody tell you to say to the kids, but then she'd go and say "but it's ok, we'll just clean up and keep playing" well after about a week of her saying that is was ok to go in her underwear I told her that it was NOT ok anymore and I started to throw the underwear in the garbage with her watching, and told her when they were gone she was back in diapers at first she was sad cause her princess panties were going in the garbage but soon that changed to "goodbye princess panties!!" and she'd walk off not even caring about it.
I heard the worst thing to do was to put them back in diapers...so I thought ok, I'll just keep her in underwear, she's got the peeing part down... so for a while we wouldn't say anything to her about any accidents, jsut clean her up and go about the activity we were doing. about a month of that and I'd had it. So this is how it was finally achieved... TV!! yes I know it's sounds weird it wasn't a movie or anything it was a commercial for this thing called a light sketcher, she thought is was the coolest thing in the world and wanted to have it!! I told her if she could go 1 week without any accidents she could get one... it totally worked!!! she got the $30.00 light sketcher and she loves it! she still talks about getting the wagon when her boxes are filled so we'll probably get that to since we did tell her she could get one, and for some reason she thinks she gets "crayola", it's 3d sidewalk chalk from crayola she saw that on a commercial too, (No she doesn't always watch tv) I don't know why she thinks she's getting it, but she's not, I'll just have to tell her the store doesn't have anymore and hope she never see's it there! So after 2 weeks accident free I say we're done!!! :)