My new love

I am newly in love . . . Jon understands and is ok with my decision . . . my loves name is . . . POTTY CHAIR! Noah is doing so so so well with the potty chair. He is peeing and pooping in it. I jerry rigged it this morning b/c the pee guard still wasn't quite high enough and now it is PERFECT!

Noah is starting to recognize that he needs to go b/c I see him stopping, looking around, and going over to sit on the chair. Sometimes he'll do this 2 or 3 times before he actually pees or poops which tells me that he's feeling the "potty feeling" and knows what it means. He is so proud of himself after he goes, he slams the lid down and shouts 'ALL DONE!' Then he has to be the one to pour the "ackies" into the potty all the while saying 'bye bye ackies'. He is also very into washing his hands, he gets his stool, and his soap and goes to town.

I am incredibily proud of him! We will probably be naked most of the summer when we aren't out and about then start reintroducing undies a week or two before we go back to grandma's house & I go back to work.

I know we still have a way to go and he'll have accidents but every kid has accidents and that doesn't really stress me out.

HOORAY for Noah!!!!

PT Update

For those of you that could give a rip about the ongoing potty training saga at my house you may want to stop reading now . . . if you're still here then here's the scoop. I was SUPER frustrated with PTing and gave it a break but started back today. I had dinner with some girlfriends last night and they suggested I take the potty chair back out -- a WONDERFUl idea!

This morning I put all my eggs in one basket and went for undies - Noah did great until lunchtime. No accidents and even sat on the potty chair and peed! (Of course it went all over the carpet b/c the "splash guard" leaves much to be desired so it's now sitting on a shower curtain) At lunch he peed in his undies but sat on the potty and peed a tiny bit more. He stayed dry for a couple hours and played HARD with his friend Brody. As I was rocking Grace to sleep I saw him run past and not come back - I immediately knew what he was doing and sure enough a GIANT clump of poop in his underwear. We put it in the toilet and he sat but here's the thing that is REALLY REALLY REALLY frustrating me . . . he doesn't like having poop on his bottom but before I can help him clean off he starts digging with his hands and getting poop all over himself, his shirt, everything in general. I have to admit that while logically I know he is trying to do a good thing and get himself clean it makes me see red when he does it. EVERY time I tell him NO, NO, NO touch ackies. Ackies go in the potty,okay. Tell is a misnomer, yell is more accurate. He always cries and says sorry momma, alright momma. I always feel like an a**hole but every time it hits my Mommy goes totally APESHIT button.

My goal is to not flip out the next time it happens (I have no illusions - I know it will happen). I am staking a lot on nakedness + potty chair = Noah gettig the potty basics down.

Ayone who has some words of wisdom about the poop situation please pass them along. It truley is a time when I really need to walk away b/c I get so mad so fast . . . but I can't b/c he's covering in crap (literally).

GGGRRRR - Potty Training STINKS!!!

So I know we are only on day 2 of potty training but this is ZERO fun and really hard. He is fighting against me big time - he has been going pee on the potty first thing in the morning for almost 6 months and now he WILL NOT pee when he gets up. We are naked and I've set the oven timer for 30 minutes and we are going down to sit . . . this is the hardest parenting job I've done so far! It doesn't help that I'm losing my patience with him - he is such a stubborn little control freak. He won't pee on the potty b/c he knows I want him to.

I also think we had him in pull ups too long to his detriment . . . yesterday twice I saw the surprise on his face as he was peeing. It was a I need to pee - I'm peeing. The second time he even looked at me with panic and said "Momma acky, Momma acky". I told him to go down to the potty and he spun around in a circle and was so flustered. By the time he got down there he had peed on the kitchen floor and was done.

I have Grace's 12 month well baby Dr. appt. today so I think I'm going to ask for some literature/advice from the Dr.

Wish me luck - hopefully he doesn't go to Kindergarten in pull ups!! :)

Pleasant Suprises

I was SO SO afraid that our renovation would be an awful ordeal but it is going really well. Jon is going to town with the help of Tink and Bob. We are almost ready to paint the upstairs!!

I'm on summer vacation - no surprise there - but happily i don't feel the need to sleep in and i have energy all day! We went to the zoo yesterday and i didn't feel pooped out!

A not so pleasant surprise is Noah's potty training adventure. Today we did away with pull ups but as soon as I put regular undies on him he pees a river. I don't know if the cloth texture "stimulates" him to pee or what but I was SUPER frustrated this morning. So he is now running naked and hasn't peed again. He did however bring me some "acky" a little rabbit turd in each hand. Gross but funny too. We washed very well with soap and water and sat on the potty.

I'll post some pictures of the house as soon as I figure out how. :)