Potty Training

Today we started to introduce potty training.  Yesterday we bought a potty and some underwear at Target.  I was thinking of getting the one from Babies R Us that has Elmo and an aquarium and does all sorts of stuff but I didn't see it on their website so I wasn't sure they had it anymore.  In the end we bought the princess one that sings when you pee in it.

We tried to have her sit on it last night but she wasn't too interested in that.  She went diaperless for a while and somehow she managed to pee on the floor while we were otherwise occupied.

This morning I gave her lots of juice and she sat on it for quite a while.  But then she would get bored and start hopping off of it every other minute.  So I would put a diaper on her and let her play.  Then she would pee (usually within 10 minutes), tell me her diaper was wet, and want to sit on the potty again.  It was a vicious cycle (and we burned up what is normally almost a whole day's supply of diapers in just a couple hours).  But then I managed to catch her on the potty when she peed.

She was pretty impressed that it was singing to her and then she wanted to play in it.  So we went to the bathroom and dumped the cup.  Then we flushed the toilet and the only way to get her away from constantly pushing the flusher again was to tell her she could wash her hands.  Then the only way to get her away from the sink was to tell her she had to dry her hands so she could get her sticker.

The first time we called Daddy to tell him all about it.  She said "potty" about 20 times over and over.  It was adorable.

So by that time the score was Diapers - 4, Floor - 1, Potty - 1.

I put a diaper on her when I went to take my shower and she had just been calling me when I came down.  She must have been distracted because I went to the kitchen for a minute.  When I came back her diaper was half off and there was a poop in it.  I went to get wipes and while I was gone she got the rest of the diaper off and sat on the potty.  Unfortunately that just covered the potty in poop.  She was totally trying to work it to her advantage thinking "maybe I can get another toilet flush or sticker out of this."

By this time she had decided she didn't want to wear diapers anymore so it was quite the wrestling match to get her into a diaper for her nap.

She didn't want to eat lunch when she woke up, she just wanted to sit (and not sit) on the potty.  We had one more success in the afternoon and 2 more floor accidents (although I got smart and laid out the sheet we put under her high chair to catch a little of it).  One of the floor accidents happened over a clean diaper so I guess that's one diaper for the afternoon plus the nap diaper.  For the second floor accident she was coming over to me and saying Mommy, Mommy.  Maybe she was telling me she had to go.  I hope that's what it was anyway.

So, Score: Diapers - 6, Floor - 3, Potty - 2.

Then we had to go to the grocery store.  She threw a fit about putting a diaper on again so I bribed her with one of Colin's Mickey Mouse diapers.  I only heard "Diaper" once the whole two hours so I think she really can't tell as much when she's peed in a disposable.

Tomorrow I'm planning to leave the potty in the bathroom and I'll just take her in there every 20 minutes.  She'll throw a fit about wearing a diaper but I don't think I want to break out the underwear until she's actually ready to wear it.

So, yeah.  Suggestions are welcome.



What? We have a blog?

Yes, I have definitely been falling behind here, which is weird since Colin goes to bed at 8 or 8:30 now so I should have lots of time in the evening .  Oh well.

His first night sleeping in the crib

Let's see.  Colin was baptized.  It went well.  Kaida came to the front of the church with us, brought us all the hymnals from the front row, and then went back to sit with Grammy and Poppy. 

Colin is Baptized

Colin with Pastor Larry

A few ladies in the church have started knitting and crocheting blankets and prayer shawls and Colin was the first baby to receive one for his baptism.  It's very pretty.

I made him a  blanket as well.  It's blue and has an airplane skywriting his name across it.  the other side is fleece with an airplane pattern.

We went to Buffalo for Cinco De Mayo and Colin's first trip to New York.  He was good, but she was not ok with going to sleep that first night (that's usually how it is).  It's a little tricky having two of them sleeping in the same room (it worked fine for Disney but he's a little older now) but once they were asleep they didn't really wake each other up.

Colin and Grammy 5/6/12

Last weekend we went to Addy's birthday party.  Kaida kind of learned to say Happy Birthday before we went.  It's more of a Happy Day than Happy Birthday.  And now it's Happy Day Addy.  Hopefully she'll learn that not every birthday is Addy's before we go to Ryan's party next weekend.

This week Kaida got sick on Wednesday.  She was very crabby after her nap and she didn't want to eat anything.  She was hot and had a fever of 103 and she needed to be right next to me all the time.  I got her the puke bucket but she didn't need it until we picked up JR.  I had to get my Rx from Target so we stopped there after we got JR and headed home.  When we were about 2 minutes from the house she threw up.  A lot.
After that her fever went down right away and she ate some crackers and juice.
Before she threw up JR and I had talked about giving her some tylenol before bed.  Once her fever was down I figured we wouldn't.  But we didn't actually talk about it so he gave her some before bed.

Thursday she got a really bad diaper rash.

Friday is started spreading down her legs so I called the Dr.  he said to just treat the rash.  lotrimin (it looked like a yeast rash), Cortisone, and eucerin, and call if it gets worse.  We were thinking it might have been hand, foot, and mouth (but she had no mouth sores).  And my friend said that her little boy had a weird rash after he took some baby motrin (but JR gave her tylenol).  It was all very mysterious.

Saturday it was on her arms and hands.  So I called the Dr. again and they said stop the lotrimin, keep going with the cortisone, and give her some claritin.  When I was cleaning up the kitchen I found the tylenol on top of the dishwasher.  Which was weird because JR gave the medicine to her upstairs.  Turns out there was ibuprofen in the medicine cabinet and that was what he gave her (she's never had it before).  So, maybe she is having a reaction to the baby motrin.

I gave her the claritin so we'll see how the rash does.  If it gets worse we need to go in on Monday.
We skipped Tony's birthday party thinking she was all sorts of crazy contagious when it may have just been hives.  Kids can be so lame sometimes.

Kaida
She knows her name is Kaida and she knows her last name is Hagy.  But she doesn't know her full name is Kaida Hagy.

She said Bacon tonight!  With the hard C sound and everything.

Last weekend she brought us a backyardigans book and JR asked her "Who's this?"  And she said "Pablo".  Not only did I not know that she knew his name, I didn't know she could say it either.  Those are the ones that always shock me, when I've never even heard her try to say a word but she answers a question with that word and she says it perfectly.

Colin
Colin is a very happy baby.  He smiles and laughs a lot.  He likes to watch Kaida and he's pretty chill as long as one of us is in his field of vision.  His favorite song is Shake Your Peanut from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse


 He really likes his thumb.

He likes the jumper too!