Weekend update Monday #2

Saturday

Woke up early today and got ready for the day with L. She dressed herself so it was a very eccentric outfit she had a white and red sparkly sweater on with grey pants and then a green and yellow sunflower spaghetti strap dress over top of it all. Thankfully she ended up taking the dress off. I spent the day out at work. I  didn't think or realize that I was going to be sitting out in the sun all day and I should wear sunscreen so that was a fun learning experience.

Sunday

Woke up today and it is pouring rain out so all my plans have changed. Was supposed to be out with another full day of work but due to the rain everything was cancelled. I totally feel like a crispy lobster today though I hurt and am super itchy on my scalp and face. I'm hopeful that that will only last a day or two and turn into an awesome tan. That's usually hope it works for me. So since plans changed I get to spend the day with L and play and have some fun. Tomorrow is going to be totally different for us I can actually sleep in (if she actually allows me too). Have I mentioned that my child is scared of movies even the mention of a movie sends her into a panic. I just got Mary Poppins in the mail on Bluray for my mom and we decided to put it on and watch it today while we were working. Well L got so upset that she hid behind the couch crying. We told her it wasn't scary and she would love it she didn't believe us. We got her to calm down and start watching her TV show in the other room and put the movie on hoping that the singing would bring her into the room and spark her interest. Eventually we called her out to show her some of the fun stuff that happens on Mary Poppins and she ended up sitting there and watching it with us. I asked her last night if she wanted to watch it again and she excitedly said yes.

Monday Morning

We all went to bed last night fairly early. We were all very tired last night and ended up going to bed at 9:30pm. It was a great sleep last night L woke me up at 6 am asking if I remembered to charge her iPad which I hadn't. So she switched blankets with me because I was using her favourite one and she feel back to sleep. It is now 8:25am and I just woke up about 15 min ago and L is still sleeping. This is L's first day of no daycare during the week. Wish me Luck!

Fitbit Blaze *REVIEW WEDNESDAY*

I used to have the Fitbit One and I loved it it was super easy to use and it did have a band for you to track your sleeping but I just found it a pain to have to take the one out of its case to put it in the sleep wrist band every night so I usually never used it to track my sleep. During the summer we went to the drive in and I had my one hooked on my bra like usual and when I got home it was gone. BOO!! I tried finding it but wasn’t able to so I had to get a new one Fitbit was awesome and gave me a discount to replace my One after trying to see if they were able to help me find mine so I decided to take the plunge and get the Fitbit Blaze. 

I am in love with my Fitbit Blaze! I actually love that it is a full size clock face and not just a bar like the other Fitbits that you can get and it has an actual watch band whereas I have seen the other Fitbit wrist bands have a little toggle thing that you have to push through the band to get on which I feel like I would struggle with. 

Now that I have it I love that I can track my sleep with my Blaze it automatically knows when I fall asleep by my heart rate and can tell when I'm in the different sleep cycles. The info on these cycles used to be very basic until recently when Fitbit did an awesome update. Now you can see more defined sleep cycle it shows you the curves of when you are in a deep sleep and when you are awake and it shows you what percent of each you are in during the night. 

The Blaze has a feature where it will show you exercises and how to do them. It has a silent alarm to wake you up in the morning with out a loud noise. You can even change the song you are listening to on your blaze. Another feature I like is getting my notifications when ever someone texts me or messages me on my business Facebook page. You can customize this so that you can get notifications from all the available spots or just a couple. So lets say you have 3 email inboxes you could have notifications for 1 inbox or all the inboxes! 

The main thing the blaze is used for is to count your steps of course. I was worried about the blaze or any wrist warn step counter counting my arm movements as steps. I am very happy that I haven’t found this to be an issue and I find it very accurate. I think it is also fun that you can challenge your friends and family to step competitions. 

All around I LOVE my Fitbit Blaze and would highly recommend it to anyone looking to purchase a Fitbit. 

https://www.fitbit.com/en-ca/blaze

Bedtime accidents

Aww my poor baby! L took forever to potty train she pretty much refused to for a while and that was fine I just kinda went with it tried to get her to try using the potty it was a no go. Finally just one day it clicked for her and she was done with pull ups. She has only had 2 accidents since that day and those were at daycare. When it came to bedtime I tried to give her a little more leeway with it and kept her in a pull up for a few months after she was fully Day trained. I started to notice that she wasn't having any accidents in her pull ups she was getting up in the middle of the night to use the potty it was all good behaviours that I was looking for her to start. So pull ups are now a thing of the past in this house. I do put an accident pad on her bed underneath her sheets just in case but I have only had to change it once and that was tonight. My poor girl came crying to me so defeated she had peed the bed. Poor thing was balling her eyes out she was so upset at herself. I told her it was ok and that accidents happen because they do accidents happen. It was probably my fault anyway we had stayed out later than normal and she was pretty tired and we forgot to get her to go pee before bed. My sister heard her crying and came to help. We took her wet cloths off her gave her a quick bath which she was also upset about and cried the entire time. I changed her sheets peeled the bed pad off which I still have residue stuck on my fingers from how sticky it was. Jammie's changed bed cleaned and she's asleep within minutes. I felt so bad for her but I knew there was no reason to get mad her for it what good would that do. Live and Learn! We will definitely be making sure that we go pee before bed every night and I may move the potty closer to her bed so there is less distance between the 2.