My 3 years-old's drawing "Mummy Ghost and baby Ghost"

"Mommy Ghost and baby ghost" by Anchalee

Both of my twin girls love to draw pictures on paper and drawing pads. Yesterday my 3 years-old younger twin drew an impressive image of a mommy ghost and a baby ghost. My husband and I thought this is one of her most abstract piece of art works so far. Anchalee and Suwan had drawn many great pieces of works since they were two years-old. I will gradually post them here to share. In the mean time, I just want to share this amazing drawing with you.

One (potty trained) and one more to go!

I can't tell you how happy I am to have at lease one of the twins potty trained! It took about a week for Anchalee, a younger twin to completely potty trained and stay dry every night. She was even be able to take long trips and stayed dry. Then she would used restroom when we stop at places. The older twin, though only using potty with number two and occasionally with number one. I just don't want to force her and make her hates going to bathroom forever. Toddlers are different after all even if they were twins. I potty trained both of them without diaper or underwear at first and then gradually using underwear. They enjoy putting on their princess underwear, tinker bell, and latest ones cup cakes and candies! which we just bought from last trip.

I am still struggling with the older twin trying to get her to bathroom in the morning. Most parents probably know how this goes. Hopefully, this won't last too long. I can't wait until both of my girls are potty trained.

The twins just turned 3 years-old

Anchalee and Suwan are playing with new toys

We just had a little 3rd birthday party for the girls last Sunday. Luckily, the rain stopped before the party started. Suwan and Anchalee got really excited all day long. They pretty much got on my nerve on day. Many times I had to stop and told myself that this was their party and I need to relax. They wanted to help me set up table with plates and cups but it turned out that they wanted to play with them too. So, I spent a lot of time picking up thing after them. After awhile, I just let go of it and took a deep breath. I told my husband that I won't do a birthday party at home anymore. We just ought to go on a trip some where instead. I was just tired and cranky, that's all!

Suwan is about to eat her cake

Anchalee is very happy with her caterpila cake

It turned out well. There were about 12 adults and 3 kids. The girls don't have many friends yet since they haven't start school. There was one boy who is about the same age as the girls were able to come to the party.

Colorful caterpila cake our friend made for the twins

Potty Training Twins Could Be Fun - Am I Crazy?

I just wrote an article on "7 Fun and Simple Ways to Potty Train Twin Toddlers" and submit it to Amazine.com, Goarticle.com and Articlerich.com. And here how it goes;

" Six Fun and Simple Ways To Potty train your twin toddlers

There are no right or wrong ways of how parents choose to potty train their child. Some

parents prefer using training pants, some use underwear or even go bared-bottom. Training

twin can be very challenging and quite frustrating, but it could also good since you have

some competition going on between the twins. I too have twin girls who will be three years-

old this month and they are not yet completely potty trained. They are pretty good at

supporting each other-e.g. give each other hi-five and being overly excited when one of them

go potty. They would shout for me to come see the results!

I have tried different strategies to potty train my twins. I want to make potty training

experience to be as much fun for them as possible. Some of these techniques work out better

than the others. Here are my potty training techniques;

1. Reading Potty-training books and and watch DVDs. The twins enjoyed DVD a lot and we

watch it so much and one day a girl was accidentally broke one the discs. They really got

motivated and inspired from the DVD. Many times between and after movies they did their

business right in the potty chair. Check out Amazon.com for many great variety of books and

DVDs about potty train.

2. Rewarding my twins with their favorite things after they peed or pooped in toilet or

potty chair. My kids like stickers, so that what I gave them, occasionally I rewarded them

with little piece of chocolate or jelly bean.

3. Singing and dancing a Potty Dance Song - got a song from Parenting magazine and the girls

enjoy it a lot.

4. Decorating potty chairs to give them their own personal touches. My twins love to paint

and put stickers on their potty chair. They painted it and erased it over and over again.

They also wrote their name on them.

5. Let the twins pick out their own underwear at store. The have fun finding their favorite

cartoon characters like Tinker Bell and Disney Princesses.

6. Mark numbers of time the twins has successfully gone potty. Both of them like this

technique a lot. I divided the drawing board into two part with each of the twins' names on

each sides. Each time they go potty, they would mark one on their side and get to show it

to daddy when he gets home.

I found that my girls do best without training pants or underwear. I just dress them up

with skirts or dresses so that they could easily pull them up and down. We have had 3

serious days of potty training. The girls have been doing such wonderful jobs. Today, one of

the twin asked if she could wear underwear under her pant. I gave it a try. She kept the

underware dry for half of a day until she accidentally peed on it when she couldn't pull it

down far enough.

There are no limit on numbers of creativity parents can come up with when potty train

their kids. Some techniques may work better than some, and some may not work at all.

Hopefully, some of these techniques I mentioned above will give other parents some ideas of

how to work with their child or twins. The most important thing to remember is that your

child or your twins can get confused and frustrated as much as you do. After all, it is a big

transitional process. So if thing don't work out right, take some time off and pick a day

when the kids are in good mood to potty train. If mistake happen, do not blame them, instead

console, hug them and tell them that it is okay to make mistake. It will take time.

I hope these 6 fun and simple potty training techniques will be useful for any parents out

there. I wish you very best on your and your babies' potty training. "

I was a fun article to write and I enjoyed it.

Free Children's Storybooks Online

I was searching for local libraries for books and children activities yesterday. I came across this very interesting children's storybook site. The twins and I had fun reading children books here. There are books for babies, toddlers, children and young adults. There are pictures in these books and some even have sound effects. I feel that I have to pass it around to other parents. My kids just loved it when I read for them stories of animals and alphabets from this site; http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Let me know what you think.