Ahh... Sleeee....zzzz....

This last week was a decent week.

First, Buttons' potty training is going pretty well. She's only had one(?) accident in the week and at times has done an ok job at letting us know when she needs to go. Other times we have to ask and she'll still fight us tooth and nail because she doesn't want to stop what she's doing or playing. In other words, it's still a work in progress, but progress none the less.

In other news, The H-bomb let momma and me off the hook for a few days. For three (3) straight nights he slept completely through the night! It was kind of nerve wracking the first night. I thought something might be wrong when I got up at about 6am and there was NO sound at all from the other bedroom. I even had to sneak a peek just to make sure he was still there. I crept in as quietly as I could and saw him with his head in the far corner of his crib as tight as it would go. (Oh good. He's still breathing.)

The next night we were a bit more relaxed and on the third night, oh, it was HEAVEN. Then came last nights crash back to reality. Ten minutes after 1 in the morning, (We had gone to bed after 11pm thinking we might get to sleep through again) we wake to an almost blood curdling scream. Oh yeah. He's teething and we forgot to give him his tylenol before bed. He screamaed for 2 solid minutes while momma got herself ready to feed him. Ok, good. back to sleep by 1:30.

Then at 5am, up again and shows no sign of going back to sleep. *sigh* Luckily he goes back after being fed again. Of course I have to be up by 6:45 to get ready for school. We'll see how tonight goe.........zzz...zzz...zzz...

Sass-a-fras

I find it interesting as to what a child picks up on and who they get it from.

Our little A-bomb has learned how to sass. And she does it alot. Part of it is, I think, just going through the terrible-two's. But I also think that a portion of it has been picked up from observation of those she interacts with. The main thing she does is like any typical toddler exerting her independence, meaning that whenever we ask her to do ANYTHING, the answer is always, "Waant to!". In other words, Thanks, but no thanks. Then comes the more stern call, again with resistance. Finally, we get to the "NOW!!" yell that parents are accustomed to. That has worked up until recently.

Lately, she has started to yell back at us with whatever she's doing, or if we tell her to do something like eating her food, we get the response of "eat YOUR food!" Since this we've had to introduce the intimidating threat of a spank on the bottom which may or may not work depending on her mood.

Now, she has introduced to us the whine. Grr... Don't get me started on the whine. It feels like we have to tell her not to do something more than we have to tell her TO do something. I know she's just being inquisitive and trying to test boundaries, but it grates a bit when you tell a two-year-old NOT to do something you get the whine, "I NEEEED TOOO"

On a better front, the potty training is going well, aside from when we ask her if she needs to go potty she says no. But, when we get her to the toilet she likes to hear the sound. It's like she gets a kick out of "going on command".

Oh well. Could be worse.

Let The Fountain of Joy Begin

Ok.

We decided that it's finally time to attempt to potty train our daughter. Again. We tried briefly before we moved. We decided to strip her down to her naked butt, let her feel the pee dribble down her legs and she won't like it, right? Um... not quite. It didn't work too well, mainly because we felt she was too young to grasp the idea yet. WE got the clue that she wasn't ready when, right after sitting on the potty to try unsuccessfully to use it, she ran down the hallway toward her room and proceeded to squat and drop a smelly load of joy on the carpet.

Since then we've gotten various ideas on what has worked for other parents and I'm still open to suggestions, but I feel the best one is still to let her uncomfortably spread the warmth down her legs. So, starting Sunday afternoon, we put her in big girl undies and let her run around. We dutifully asked her if she needed to "go potty", and invariably she'd say no, and we'd drag her to the toilet. At first she thought it was a novel idea, but more and more she has begun to resist. We DID manage to get her to use the toilet 4 times with NO accidents!

Today was almost the exact opposite. Almost. Momma got her up and asked her if she needed to go, and with the usual answer momma put her on anyway, just to be sure. No dice. kept checking, nothing. Then, just before I got home from school, someone flooded her pants. "Wet... WET!" came the cry. Momma put her on the pot, but she had already created the dark butterfly pattern in her pants. (*$^&*!!!) Oh well.

So, on through the morning we kept trying to get her to go without ANY progress. We put her in Pull-ups for her nap (which she pee'd in OF COURSE), and refused the bathroom after getting up. Then while we were cleaning up after dinner she was playing behind the chairs, and then came the cry, "WET! WET!" again. So I immediately grabbed her and got her to the bathroom as quickly as possible where she let a small tinkle in the toilet and gave a big, bright, happy "I DID IT!" type smile. Unfortunately, she did pee her pants a bit, but she ALSO knew to hold the rest of it til we got to the toilet.

Maybe there's hope for this potty business yet.....

Hello Me, It's Me Again...

Things look a bit different around here.

Not only am I referring to the layout to my online persona(s), but my physical locale as well. It has now in fact been 5 months since I've even LOOKED at this page and I've finally decided to do something about it. This is not only at the behest of the Mouse in my life but also because, at times, I might actually have things to say once in a while.

I said this in the former life of this space, but this time I mean it...

I hope.

It's been... (ahem)... a while...

I think I have to agree with Jen A. that time definitely seems to have been speeding past like a subway train missing a stop. Em has been saying how I should start blogging again, but I just haven't been motivated to because I've been a little busy getting this "life" thing taken care of a bit.


So, we'll see how it goes.


Happy fun times til later.