The Rooster Call
I'm not exactly sure how it started.Or even when it started (My Boy or DQ)...
But, during the potting training of the aforementioned older kids in the family, we taught them to use a code after they made their business.
Number 1 is easy enough. TP and wipe, then flush.
Numero Dos, a little trickier. Can you see a toddler attempting to tidy up back there on their own?
And, they always wanted privacy when doing their business, so in order to know when they were done, needing help, enter the code.
Hubby and I--Okay
COCK-A-DOODLE DOO!!
Then mommy or daddy will come rushing in to help you wipe, okay?
Kid--(all excited and stuff) Okay!!
It was like a dang hen house in here for YEARS before I would
...even now they could use...nevermind.
Now we're trying to implement this very code with K.
K--Coocoocoo?
Me--No, Cockadoodledoo!
K--Coo Coo!
Me--Cockadoodledoo!
K--Mommy punny [funny]!!
Me--When you have poopoo in the potty chair call mommy okay?
K--Coocoo!
Me--Okay
It might take a while, but my little rooster will get it right!
Even the Toddler is Regular
First and foremost....THANK YOU from the bottom of my
Ahem. Now for the post.
On poop.
I have to go there. It's a must. It happens to so many people I know. It's an annoying phenomenon I'd like to call, "vacation constipation."
If you must, go ahead, click to the next blog in your reader.
Honestly though, WHY must this happen?
You get excited for vacation, a small camping trip, a weekend away with the hubby, girl's weekend to Vegas, what have you....You enjoy yourself, you eat and drink like crazy, then POW....belly ache time.
I don't know why i'm so nervous about going in a new place. Everyone does it. For some reason my brain tells my bowels,
"Hey when you get out of that communal restroom, there will be either a line a mile long with angry need-to-pee-ers or there will be a crowd pointing and laughing." Fear sets in.
Or, someone might walk in and shout, "GOD, what DIED in here?!" Embarassment sets in.
God forbid you make any SOUNDS while you're in there. That will be the death of you.
"Hey there, cut back on the pork and beans lady, we all have to use this restroom!" Dying, a slow death.
Day 4 of camping plus 3 nights of hot dog barbecue equals something even a lot of strong coffee can't help.
Even my baby K. She's potty training...even at the campsite. Totally regular. Kids, totally regular. Hubby....well, he has Crohn's. Enough said.
Needless to say, being home is a relief. As for my next trip....i'm scared shitless. Literally.
Free For All Friday
There is just SO much in my head. Expressing it all would be called "word vomit" or the pleasant "verbal diarreah" expression my mom used to use.K's progressing well with potty training at home. We're raising a partial nudist, but everyone has their calling right? What is more frightening is that she's climbing out of the crib daily. A few months back she did it and freaked us out by just showing up behind the door after we had put her in her crib. That was a fluke.
But now she's doing it daily for nap, and nightly at bedtime. To save her from any harm we're just allowing her to nap on the couch. Or not nap at all. The schedule is definately different, but with the PT'ing going on we just need to go with it, we can't strap her down in the crib, so we pick our battles.
Last night I found her roaming in the hall saying "nye nye couch." I steered her back in her room and put her back in the crib. I layed on the pull out bed/sofa in her room and she fell back asleep. A second time she roused, Hubby got to the room before the Houdini antics ensued. *yawn* Fun times.
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I was tagged by Susan over at Fordy Days and Nights for the 6 Words Meme. I am supposed to define my life in six words and the tag 5 other lucky people.
1. Hubby
2. MyBoy
3. DQ
4. K
5. Love
6. Challenge
I'm going to tag....
Ranch Girl
Ciara
Brittany
Flickrlvr
Ann
...and anyone else who'd like to do it!
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Heading camping Sunday for a few days. It'll be nice to hang out with Hubby's brothers and my two sisters in law. Our little 18 month old neice L will be there too, it should be a blast!
As before I have a few posts ready for my absence PLUS [this just in] TWO AMAZING GUEST POSTERS that you are going to LOVE, if you don't already! They will be here Monday and Wednesday please make sure you leave them tons of love!
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Saw The Step Brothers.....oh my god I am significantly [more dumb?] dumber now that I watched that movie.
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Rock for the final five on Last Comic Standing...Jim Tavare, Marcus, Jeff Dye, Iliza Schleszinger, and Louis Ramey!
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Got my hair cut today, and colored. It's the A-Line bob type but not so dramatic and not so short in the back. Love it. Color is RED. Like dark red raspberry not fire truck. Maybe a picture on Sunday's Weekly Winners...if I can get a decent one.
Panties, the New Frontier
So I've said it before, pull-up diapers are the devil. They stink horrendously when wet, they cost the same as diapers but for half the quantity, and they just feel like a diaper. Part of the battle of potty training is that if you do wet yourself, you should be aware of it. Thus, we went for the panty purchase for K.
Of course her first choice were the "WALLOW" ones. She only wears a 2T and the 4's are the smallest size available.
Also I read a post this morning about another potty-training mom whose child soaked the couch cushions, thank you for the head's up!
So here we are at the next phase. All morning the panties stayed dry and we visited the potty 3 times. Nothing. She is very good at control and I'm sure she loaded her diaper up as we readied her for her nap, but baby steps right? I know when she's ready, she'll let us know...we're just helping her along.
And then they're the Potty Whisperer...what do you think about this?
Smells like Easter & By the numbers
Mmmm...who doesn't love the smell of 21 eggs hard-boiling on the stove?I'm joking, my computer is near the kitchen and I'm gagging slightly on the stench.
6 little hands anxiously await the dunk and dye process. DQ has done the math, 7 eggs each. The older two will probably get a few more each, as K will tire of the ritual of coloring the eggs and will proceed to dye her hands 5 shades of blue. As well as my table, her shirt, and probably the floor.
Thanks to Hubby's love of soda and my water bottle addiction, the "kids" brought in $13 of recycling money! They do help by drinking water, and they did sort some of the cans and bottles, so they earned it. Although the gas it took to get them to the recycling plant probably cost $12, but we won't mention that.
Ugh, nothing like making my psoriasis worse with the stress of my prescription to lessen it! $385! That was AFTER my insurance covered $100!!! That is for a large tube of cream. I already bought 4 others plus an $80 vial of liquid gold apparently! I had to tell the pharmacist to hold the cream until after I went home and sold my car to finance it. Highway robbery I tell you!
K placed her bottom on the potty chair this week 2 times! An increase of 1 time from last week! Whatta big girl!
Potty Training: Part Deux!
My baby girl is 2 now and a few months ago we bought the infamous potty chair. Some of you may recall the video I emailed with her playing cars around the yellow cup-racetrack and then dropping her cars into the cup.That cup is important, stuff needs to go in there so it can later be flushed to Neverland. Not to little K, hers is decorated with "stickews" and is a great chair for Groovy Girl dolls and a perfect parking spot for cars. *Sigh* Don't even think of sitting her on it! Mommy even sat on it and she laughed. Luckily, we're early in the game and still have time....
Poor Groovy Girl!
Is this the face of someone excited to use the potty chair?
Good thing that yellow cup is there, otherwise Groovy Girl would be on her way to Neverland!
Potty Progress
I'm thinking writing daily about potty training K will get old, so i'll be updating this post regularly. Newest posts on top.9/23/08...Still doing amazing. We only have to put a diaper on at night, naps are super dry times, YAY! Diapers at night though seem to be full more often than not, then leak. They've never leaked any time before. ??!! Whatever, K is doing superbly and we couldn't be more proud of her!
9/3/08...This little cherub of mind is so awesome. Potty'ing in the big guys all over the place when PC is unavailable. Just as long as mommy doesn't let her "pall" we're all good! ;)
8/27/08...If K were a song she'd be "Rock this Potty!" Still doing amazingly well. Morning are dry...even with Monday's middle of the night 3X needing a drink! Super Bladder!
Yesterday we had a new breakthrough. I was getting my haircut again (shortest ever since Kindergarten!!) and she had to go. No PC in sight so I took her to the big potty and held her over it. "My pall my pall!! (i'm going to fall in!)" but I held her and said I wouldn't let her fall in and she went!! WOOT WOOT!
Amazing I tell ya! ;)
8/21/08...Things are going so well. We did have a poop/underwear accident. But she had just gone in the toilet after a few false starts and then a few minutes later after her bottoms were put on she went poop in them.
I'm trying not to over-analyze, she's still getting it. She's still getting used to wearing bottoms w/o a diaper. I'm letting it go.
Naps are dry (if and when she does nap), morings still hit and miss.
Her mind must be running a mile a minute with all the new milestones, I remember reading that often breaks up sleeping patterns.
8/17/08...K did great this weekend minus one huge accident.
First the good news. Yesterday we were at an all day beach event about an hour away. In a diaper in the car and out and about, we were parked a short walk to our car where pc was. Twice during the day K asked to go use the pc!! Each time her diaper was dry!! We were so proud!
Mornings are mostly dry, but diapers will be on for a long while at night. Naps are totally dry MINUS this afternoon!!
K hadn't pooped for a few days and knew she was due. We reminded her a few times and then she had a late nap today. When she woke up (luckily on the couch with a towel) we noticed she had peed and pooped in her sleep! We felt so bad for her. She went swimming today and was just beat (but also relaxed).
Tonight we put the top of the pc on the big potty and used the bottom as a step stool and she peed in the big potty! Two steps forward, one step back.
8/15/08...continued success. K is wearing bottoms (shorts/pants/underwear) with great success. She's going on her own and mentioning it to anyone near. She still needs help pulling the clothes down but she mostly takes them off completely. If and when she naps she stays dry on a towel. Mornings are dry sometimes with a night diaper, but sometimes it's not, but that's a longer process.
We're feeling we can go places now. We tote the pc around with us when the kids go to Yaya and Papa's and she went like a champ both pee and poop there the other day!!
;)
8/11/08...K is amazing. She is telling when she needs to go when we're out and about (like at the store tonight), staying dry in nap-time-diapers, and pulling down leggings, shorts, and undies.
We're ecstatic. What is nice is that we are reminding her less and she is going on her own. I think a few times I reminded her she wanted to tell me to shut the bleep up, but we all do it...we're trying to stop, lol.
I'm wondering if we should keep the pc in it's place and buy one of those little seats to put on the big toilet, practice that.
Pooped twice in the pc today. ROCK!
8/8/08...OOH a breakthrough. K wore shorts (no diaper) to great-grandmas with the pc in the car. We reminded her if she had to go, the pc was in the car. Anyway...we got home and she was still dry. A few minutes later we hear, "mommy peepee pie chair!!" and we go in and she actually REMOVED her own shorts before she went! WOO HOO! We may not have a total nudist after all!
8/6/08...Unbelievable. 4 days, 3 nights and we're still chugging on this potty train! K did amazingly well camping with the pc. Even now she says on her own, "peepee potty chair?" and we go. It's getting so good!
Tonight when we got home her for-the-car-ride diaper was wet, probably from when she napped. After setting up her pc in it's special spot, she went over and filled it near full. Like she was waiting to go.
After dinner out, we got home and I removed the not-yet-ready-for-public restrooms diaper and it was dry! As soon as I removed it she went straight for the chair and filled it again. 10 minutes later, #2 in there!!
SO EXCITED!
8/2/08...So excited! We went to Yaya's to swim and i hoped she wouldn't 'go' in the pool. When she got out and dried off...she went on the pc! First 'away from home' pee. SO PROUD.
We're taking the pc camping with us.
8/1/08...Bladder of steel.
7/30/08...4P, 2Poop, 1 accident. Darn skirt.
7/28/08...Crazy day.
Skipped a nap, well jumped out of the crib and pooped in her diaper.
Stayed dry while we went to My Boy's Karate testing.
7/27/08...At Yaya's today with a diaper...didn't want to worry about accidents today since we were away. She's taking to fussing at naptime/bedtime, midnight wakings, and crawling out of the port-a-crib. One thing at a time.
Amazingly her one hour nap on Yaya's couch left her diaper dry and when she came home we took it off and she FILLED the pc! Yay. Went a second time.
Keeping her routine at home and she's doing so well. PC is behind the recliner (she likes it there for some privacy!)
7/25/08...Now that we're pt'ing we seem to be coming across with another issue. Afraid of the dark. Either that or just separation anxiety. ?? Crying in the middle of the night is wearing after nearly 2 years of STTN.
Went again! Day 2 (so far) of no accidents.
*Went poop in the pc!! A couple stray pebbles on the carpet, but the majority was in the cup!
Twice more tonight. Now i'm thinking she is addicted to flushing.
Another cup full of poop. I don't think we'll ever be able to leave the house again.
7/24/08...Finding that nudity is easier for K to remember to go potty on her own (although the 4 of us are still constantly reminding her.) She went on her own this morning.
She gets very excited stands and yells, "SEE??" then sits again, goes some more, stands and yells "SEE?" again. This is repeated about 3 times and she is officially done. We walk to the restroom (did I mention the potty chair is in the living room behind the recliner for privacy?) and she gets to flush. "Bye PeePee" like it was her good 'ol friend.
Had to have her in a diaper at our company dinner. It was LOADED by the time we got home, but we soon took her diaper off and she used the pc!
7/23/08...FIRST POOP in the potty chair. We found poop on the floor by the kid's bunk bed, but then we found her on the pc going #2 ...ROCK! She got a piece of chocolate for the first poop.
She had gone p once today on the pc, but next was a major puddle on the floor. POOPed a second time in the pc. I'm completely shocked at this. I almost threw in the towel after the puddle incident.
7/22/08...2 times p in the pc, more accidents with panties. :( I think we're asking her too many questions.
7/21/08...1st pee in the potty chair!! I was at the movies and Hubby texted "K peed in the potty chair!"
*Off and on for the past few months we've started K in potty training. From purchasing the potty chair, to buying her panties, we've peaked her interest in being a 'big girl.' This week we made an extra committment to consistency, we'll see where it leads us.
*During Awake time K will be in underwear or commando.
