Dry kids!

I realize that I haven't posted anything about Christmas yet, & I will try to do that next...we had a great Christmas with family & the kids have had lots of fun with their new things.:) Now...what I really need to post about is that my 2 oldest kids have been wearing their underwear for a WEEK now & are doing AWESOME!!! Most of you know that Kellen has had some, uh, issues as far as the potty goes, ever since our remodel & trip to California. I tried giving the responsibility to him, but after 2 months, it still wasn't going anywhere. I told him a couple weeks before Christmas that I wouldn't be buying any more diapers after Christmas, he could choose to wear underwear or cloth diapers. The day after Christmas I reminded him again, only this time I said we would wear underwear only while we are at home, & that we were going to be staying home a lot that week.:) Monday morning after breakfast I asked both Kellen & Annika (she is 3, after all!) which underwear they wanted to wear. Kellen protested a bit, but I just reminded him that we were staying home, & after a couple more 'whines' he picked some out & that was the end of that! He has done AWESOME the whole time & has had only a couple of accidents - one at grandma & grandpa's (he still won't use other people's toilets) & one when we were outside. Annika didn't protest the underwear at all, but she had tons of accidents.:) She really wasn't getting it, as I would have her try to go & she wouldn't do anything, but then 10 minutes later she would pee somewhere else. But I decided to just let her keep trying, since it didn't seem to bother her. And lo & behold, by Friday she was telling me each time she had to go to the potty, only had one accident on Sat. (in the morning) & today she was dry ALL DAY! AND - we went to church in underwear AND to a birthday party (we were gone for about 4 hours) & no accidents! By george, I think she's got it!:) After the birthday party today we went to Target & they each got to pick out a new toy. Kellen picked out 2 Cars semi trucks & Annika picked out 2 princesses.:) I am SO happy this week went so well, as I was really not looking forward to it. YAY! I can't believe I am actually back to only 1 kid in diapers! I haven't had that in 3 years!