BAD POOP: When SOMEONE (KAITLYN I'M LOOKING IN YOUR DIRECTION) poops in the tub.
OH HOW I HATE POOP IN THE TUB!!!!! First of all it totally ruins the purpose of the bath (I had to usher all the kids into the other tub REAL fast) and then you have to clean it by either fishing it out from the water or letting the water drain and THEN cleaning it OR (I definitely don’t recommend this one) not having time/wanting to clean it up right then so you drain the water and then when you come back to clean the tub it’s all hard and you have to scrape it out. I KNOW!!!! IT’S GROSS!!! YOU’RE TELLING ME?!
So that was this morning before stake conference.
GOOD POOP: When, right after church, Logan comes to me UNPROMPTED with his pants to his ankles, trying to take off his diaper, saying he needs to go potty and then FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER not only PEES BUT POOPS IN THE POTTY!!!!!
I AM STILL DOING A LITTLE JOY DANCE RIGHT THIS SECOND!!!
I still can’t believe it. You see… I knew potty training was coming, but I just couldn't get myself to begin... Potty training is one of the crappiest part of being a mom (no pun intended). I started with Jenna and Carter at age 2.5 and that pretty much failed and then like 2 or 3 months before they turned 3 was the magical age and it went pretty smoothly. BUT if there is a #1 thing I’d like to tell new mothers out there about potty training is: IT IS A PROCESS… it is one setback after another. Like, JUST when you think they are potty trained they go and poop in their underwear without telling you while you are out to eat at a restaurant. And then they have to learn to either sleep through the night and stay dry or you are waking up in the middle of the night to help them go for weeks. THEN they hit that point where the novelty wears off and they just get lazy and decide that playing is way better than going to the potty and then they wait too long. I mean it is a good few months before you can finally say “YES THEY ARE POTTY TRAINED.” At least in my experience…
So with Logan he is just over 2.5 and I have been like do I try and fail like I did with Jenna and Carter at this age?!!! So I’d ask him if he happened to want to sit on the potty or try out some big boy underwear and where Jenna and Carter were SUPER EXCITED at first, Logan has had no desire AT ALL. In fact he has been VERY adamant about it, giving me a FIRM “NO!” when asked. OKAY. I was not gonna push it. Well last week for the first time he randomly said he wanted to sit on the potty. I was like, sure let’s go practice, see how ya like it. I didn’t get my hopes up. I know better. So he sits for awhile, says he is done (nothing happened) and I even put underwear on him and a little while later find the wet underwear thrown in some corner. OKAY that didn’t work. SO TODAY?!! He goes POOP AND PEE?!!!! I am so excited I can’t stand it, and yet this is only the very beginning. SIGH. He has been running around in underwear and we shall see what happens next. The other thing about potty training is: IT IS A COMMITMENT. You just can’t be lazy about it, that just makes it worse cause you end up going back and forth between underwear and diapers and that is just confusing for them. Yeah more and more I am learning once you start with underwear it is a commitment and DON’T go back to diapers, (not even pull-ups they are just glorified diapers). I've heard you should just throw all the diapers away so you won’t be tempted, but I have never been able to do that cause I usually have had 2 in diapers… such is my life. ANYWAY I know that today it is starting and I have to be committed. So. I’ll let you know how it goes…
(I was so excited to document I didn't even wipe his nose.)
WELL on a COMPLETELY UNRELATED note...
Is the world ready for... BATGIRL AND ROBIN?!!!! (yes I am a big dork judge me all you want!!)
TO THE BAT CAVE!
Naomi and I ran a Halloween/charity 5k for fun and YES IT WAS FUN!!! It was so fun getting into character with Naomi, I just love her. At the end we had this whole plan where she would say "Batgirl don't let the joker get away!" and then we'd SPRINT. The only prob with that is yeah I sprinted... but SHE LIKE FLEW!!!! I could not keep up with her. That's cause she's awesome. Now the only thing that woulda made it better is if we hadn't MISSED THE COSTUME CONTEST by 5 minutes!!!!!! DANG IT!!!! Well. We won in our minds. Whatever. I'm not bitter they started it earlier than they said. Not at all. :) :)
Okay and there ends my post on poo and running.
3 comments:
Ha, to me the subject of poo and running are the same! I have stories to tell! I am so proud of Logan. What a big boy! It would be really nice if he made it easy for you! I am so proud of you, the fun 5K looks awesome!
I would rather give birth then potty train! It is the worst thing in the world! Good luck.
Yay, Erika! I am doing a happy dance for you in my mind right now! Having older sibs is the best form of motivation. Kid one was almost three and totally got the concept, but still did all the things mentioned above. (She would die if she knew I was posting this) One weekend her four older cousins were over, and she followed them everywhere, even the bathroom. Guess what she was doing by the time they left?
A friend of mine swears by this potty-training trick: When the kid in question begins wearing "grown-up" underwear (Underoos, not the stuff they sell at Dr. John's-I couldn't resist saying that!), ply them with assorted forms of liquid including Popsicles, ice cream, soup, water...you get the point, then take said kiddo potty every 20 minutes All. Day. Long. Yes, it's a commitment, as you said, but after a couple of days, your kid will be super-hydrated, and conditioned to use the throne when the urge hits. Congrats!
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