Making progress

I have blogged about the twins' pooptastrophes before. The most recent one was about 3 weeks ago. Aaron was home, I had put the twins down for a nap. I smelled something, we went to check on them and found another "art project." Aaron quickly took them into the bathroom and scolded them, scrubbed them off in the tub and then put them in the shower (their very first shower). I kind of stayed out of the way because, well, none of my disciplinary tactics had worked on preventing future poop finger-painting events. I was working on cleaning up the mess in their room instead.

I realized the other day that we hadn't had a mess of disastrous proportions since that day. And then, it happened. Last night, Cami and Brie came out of their room holding hands telling us that they needed a diaper change. Indeed they did. I gave them all kinds of positive reinforcement for coming to tell me that they needed a diaper change.

Tonight, it happened again. They came out together and asked for a diaper change. Now, it just appears that I need to figure out how to get them to poop before I put them to bed for the night. :) Oh, and potty training...is an adventure I'm just not quite ready for. We're actually planning a trip to Disneyland in December and I just cringe at the thought of having two mostly potty-trained 2-year-olds in lines with that urgent need to go potty. I also didn't do potty training with Maddie until a month before her third birthday and it went incredibly smooth. Since the twins are just 2 years and 3+ months, I'm not in a hurry just yet. (Other than that a case of diapers has gone up from $32.99 to $42.79 in the last several months!!!)