Oh what a week!

We have had quite a week of transitions for the kids. Allie got up Tuesday morning and announced that she wanted to wear panties instead of putting on a diaper. I was shocked because I have been trying to get her to do this for months with no luck. She loves her diapers. If Jack wasn't still in diapers (the same size as her), I probably would have thrown them away by now. Amazingly, Allie stayed dry all day. Even at nap time I let her stay in her panties rather than put a diaper on her. On her own she went into the bathroom and went potty during nap time. She did wait until bed time when she got her diaper put on to go poopy. The next day she stayed dry all morning and asked if she could wear panties to her preschool open house in the afternoon. I let her and she had no accidents. Dry all day. On Thursday Allie stayed dry again all day and this time went poopy in the toilet.
Adam and Allie decided months ago that if she stayed dry for 3 days in a row and used the toilet all day on those days (instead of just holding it in), he would by her rainbow ice cream with sprinkles. So, Adam dropped by the store on the way home from campus and picked up some rainbow sherbet. Luckily we already had the sprinkles at home. Allie was in heaven. That was Thursday and she has been dry and using the toilet ever since. I'm not sure what the sudden change of heart was for her. The only thing I can think is that since she is starting school this week, she wanted to be able to use the toilet like some of the other kids or maybe it was timing and she was just ready. I hope this is it and we don't have any backsliding.
I think we have finally had a breakthrough with Jack also. After four months of being in nursery at church, he is finally OK with being left there alone while Adam and I go to our Sunday School classes. So it looks like I have almost a 5 month break before I have another baby to be walking the halls with for 18month-2years. I'm just grateful for a break at all.