Apple Orchard, MN Fall Walks, Potty Training

This past weekend was GORGEOUS here in Minnesota. On Saturday we decided to venture out to our favorite apple orchard/pumpkin patch. The apples were a huge disappointment, but we had heard about that in advanced. We still managed to swipe up a few apples off of the ground. (ps I just have to say that dressing boys gets SO MUCH MORE FUN when they get older). Girls are always fun to dress, but there is not a lot of super duper cute baby boy clothes. This definitely changes as they get older!








Finn had a blast picking Apples



The hunt for the best pumpkin begins:


This one looks a little heavy for Jack, no?



This one looks a little bit more like Jack's size:



I know it looks like Jack hasn't grown a ton, but last year this chart was on a hill :-)


Moving on...

There is nothing like taking walks after dinner in the Fall here in MN. It's our favorite thing to do!





And this is our favorite house to stare at and say "ahhhh someday, someday"



Fall is my FAVORITE!





And now for the potty training talk:

For the past few weeks, I've been getting ready to really potty train. We've tried going, we've talked about it, blah blah blah. I think a month ago I even put Jack in big boy pants just to get him uncomfortable when he would go potty, and he didn't even care that he was peeing himself. So I was like, nope - he's not ready. Well this past weekend we tried again and he showed a lot more interest, but was still having a lot of accidents. Today I decided I would try again and if he had a lot more accidents I would try again next week. So after lunch we headed to target and I got supplies to make this:




So we made him a potty chart! Nothing organized, just a poster board that Jack colored and he puts stickers on when he goes potty. Every time he sits on the potty, he gets a sticker. If he goes pee, he gets two stickers to put on the chart and if he poops he gets three. He also gets one m&m when he pees and two when he poops. We didn't have one accident after his nap today and he went potty probably 8 times before bedtime and one little poop too. I was SO proud of him. It's funny because this morning after I got back from Target, I was talking to a girlfriend about how I just wanted it to click with him. I wanted him to get that he needs to tell me he has to go and then sit on the potty and go. Well - it's amazing what stickers, candy, and good ole bribing can do. I feel SO lucky to have amazing friends that have gone through this before to help me out and give me incredible suggestions :-)


PS - I started my 10 week boot camp this morning! No processed foods all day. How am I doing? I'm starving!