Jada and Makayla's new successes

Our girls are growing up so fast. Kayla is Crawling and pulling up on things now. The crawling came first but not by much. And Jada is potty trained!!! Yeah! Not night trained yet so if you count that as potty trained than she is 90 percent of the way there. She actually was not too hard to teach, I was kind of dreading it because I thought it would be alot harder than it was. I would say it took about 2 months to get to the point where she can recognize when she needs to and goes all by herself without any prompting. I am crossing my fingers that makayla will be easy to train too. As those of you know who have been following this blog, I used EC elimination communication (as they call it here in the west) with jada from newborn to about 6 months. It is a potty training method used all throughout asia, which is how I learned about it, and in africa, ect. It has been gaining popularity in the west recently because people are becoming more concious of taking care of the environment and going green. Alot of people also have gone back to cloth diapers because of concerns about the environment. That is not why they do it that way in Asia, it is just tradition there. I was not very good at being consistent with it. But I found it very useful for somethings. Basically from birth I taught her to associate eliminating with a certain sound I made. It was great because when ever I changed her diaper I also took her to the potty and I could communicate with her what I wanted her to do. This meant her new diaper stayed clean for quite a while. That was wonderful and very useful. I wish I could say I was better at it. I haven't even made an attempt with Makayla which is unfortunate. Oh, well. I feel really bad, I know I should at least use cloth diapers.