He chose us!

This little boy so full of joy has captured my heart indeed!

Who would have thought after losing my very own flesh and blood to preterm birth I could ever fall in love with another.

Who would have thought after feeling so lost and empty I would be filled up by the laughter and smiles of this little being!

Who would have thought that someone this precious could end up in a place that he needed a new mother and father from birth!

Who would have thought that I would love someone without our last name just as my own for over a year and a half and not have any "ownership".

Who would have thought that my arms would hold a babe not our own and fall so deeply in love at first sight!

Who would have thought that I would have praised Jesus for the trials we have faced, for those trials brought us to our Bear.

Who did think of us when our hearts were hurting was God.

Who held us in that pain was God.

Who chose us to walk this road was God.

Who has sustained our hearts through the brokenness was God.

Who knew we were to be Bear's family from day one was God.

Thank you Jesus you have held us more than once. Thank you that you saw us worthy to adopt a child into our family and call him our own. Thank you Jesus that you continue to do a work in us that may someday help others overcome.

We praise you for choosing us to walk this path so that we may know love outside our own abilities!

Tomorrow we will be bringing home "BABY" BOY WACHSMANN!!!!

Thank you Jesus... you chose us!

Join in Prayer

Again I am calling all my wonderful friends to join with me in prayer for this beautiful family. Their little girl was born weighing only one lb. She has graced the world with her presence for 10 months through many surgeries and procedures. She has fought an amazing fight and her parents are still praising God in the midst of it all!

Her body is showing signs of shutting down. There is a part of her brain that is showing to be "dead" and it is affecting her whole little body. The dr's are not very hopeful at this point and say it is only a matter of time. The parents have come to peace with whatever God chooses for their little one. But there is always that Prayer for a MIRACLE to come through and GLORIFY our creator!

Please join me in praying for Kayleigh Anne Freeman as well as Adam, Aimee (Father and mother), Allyson, and Brandon (brother and sister) and the rest of their family as they have some hard roads ahead of them!

Thank you!

How in this world...

***UPDATE****

Okay so no I didn't get him potty trained over night or anything like that. But I do want to explain a little something. I have heard that children can potty train at 18 months is the reason I am going at it at all. And I have seen him go in the potty several times... he just can't tell me yet, which to me is a sign of holding off until he can.

MY main concern is my back. It feels like it is going out. I have been to the chiropractor several times but it is more a muscle thing it feels like; maybe, I am not sure. I am going to make a dr. appt soon to figure it out. I thought it would go away in time but it is getting worse.

There are two little boys,both of which are NOT SMALL, in diapers! Bear just weighed in at 28 lbs and Moe is at least 27. It is getting way strenuous to lift them anymore and potty training at least the oldest one would help tremendously! I think for now I am going to move diaper changes to the floor. Maybe that will work. In the meantime if you think of it please say a healing prayer for my tortured back.

Thanks for all your information and tips. You have been most helpful. We will definitely be working on technique as soon as he figures out he has to go! haha...oh I love my boy!


***ORIGINAL POST****

...can this 18 month old little boy NEVER have to pee? I have tried the lemonade trick-glasses full! I have left his diaper off for him to run free and go every 15 minutes. Nothing (I am glad that there have been no puddles... but COME ON MAN!) He will just hold it forever!

This morning from 7:45 to 10A I gave him a sippy of sugar free chocolate milk and a sippy of lemonade (barely diluted). I took him potty at least 6 times and then in the second to last 15 minute stretch he was looking out the window and I heard a splat hit the wall and the floor. Just a little gush and then he noticed and stopped, looking down at his accident, then he looks at me. I said "YAY...okay let's go pee, pee in the potty. Come on honey let's go to the potty. Run, run, run; hurry, hurry, hurry." And he did. He got all excited about it and ran to the potty. He gets on it and NOTHING! He sits there cheering, "yay. poopoo"

"No honey... you didn't go yet" "go pee pee".

I put his hand in a cup of warm water, I run water, I go pee pee so he can hear and understand it. NOTHING!

Finally in the end; the last 15 minute try before his nap. I put him on it and we sit there for a bit and then the flood gates open up...

"YAY BEAR, YOU ARE GOING PEE PEE..... SUCH A BIG BOY!!!!!"

in his little voice "aaayyyyy, poo poo"

well okay it's a start!

We have recently taken away his potty seat too due to his "free hands, are troubled hands" theory! He does great sitting on the big potty all by himself. He is even learning to get up on his stool and get onto the potty, and in turn get down.






















Now if he would just have to go it would be a lot easier to train him.

Any suggestions from you seasoned potty trainers? I am taking them all at this point!