April
3, 2005
Mom
and Carol-Ann came for a visit. Carol has decided that Lauren is now “Lady
Lauren”. She says she’s very serene and calm yet alert so she seems like such a
regal lady. Bwahahahaha! A regal lady who blows up a couple of outfits a day
with poop explosions!
April
4, 2005
Good
lord I feel like a crappy parent. Things have just not been going our way
lately. Much as we try, things get all screwy. Lets just take a look at the
last two days shall we? Yesterday, I woke up feeling a cold coming on. Figured
I’d take the girls and run some errands so Woody could have the house to
himself for a bit (something that rarely happens & the poor guy has been
itching for a break lately). I was getting ready to go, list in hand, when he said
he wanted to come along and do a “family thing”…whatever buddy, it’s your free
time you are sacrificing. So we all pile in the van and go off to run errands.
Errands, a word Katherine has never heard and repeats approximately 1000 times
while we are in the car. We drop off the mail at the post office-“mommy, are we
doing errands next?”, “honey that was one of our errands, an errand is a task
that we can cross off of our list. See daddy crossing ‘drop off letters’ off of
the list?” Next, the salvation army truck to drop off some clothes that didn’t
sell at the yard sale…”mommy are we doing an errand?” then to the gas station
“was that an errand mommy?”. So to save us from certain madness, we decided
that K needed to go to either the museum or the park in an attempt to make her
forget the word ‘errand’. She chooses the museum. I realize that although we
are only about 10 minutes from the museum, that I don’t have the stroller in
the van so we drive the extra 15 minutes home to get it, all the while, talking
up the museum. We’d whipped K into a frenzy about the museum and by the time we
get there, she’s all excited and has completely forgotten about errands.
I
pull her out of her car seat and ewwwww! Wet arms. Her diaper had leaked
through her clothes and since this NEVER happens, I have no change of clothes
for her. While Woody is changing her diaper, we discuss fashioning a skirt for
her from two cloth diapers that we keep handy to wipe up Lauren puke. We
finally break it to K that we can’t go to the museum. She’s sad. So sad that
she cries…a lot and wakes up Lauren, who until now had been sitting in her
carseat for an hour blissfully sleeping, but she has decided that she was awakened rudely and will
not tolerate her carseat for another second. ARGH!!
We
go home and the remainder of my errands goes un-errand-ed.
K
was so very upset about the museum that we decided Woody would take half a day
off today (Monday) and we’d pick her up early from daycare and go. We told her
and she was excited about the prospect of seeing the dinosaur. I even noted to
myself to not let her chug two sippy cups full of apple juice on the way. So
Woody gets home at 1 but his cold has gotten to him so he needs a nap. We leave
at 3 to pick K up and we get to the museum at 5 pm. Of course it’s closed. Did
we even think that this was a possibility? Nope! So we pile K in the car again,
very upset, and she drowns her sorrows in a sticky glop of dippin dots. I feel
awful. We call the zoo to see if they are open. Nope. We consider
April
20, 2005
Things
are going well. Woody hired a sitter last Saturday and I got the morning off. I
went shopping and got a nice dress for Carol-Ann’s wedding. It was weird (but
wonderful!) to get out of the house without toting a kid around with me. I am
trying to talk myself into taking the girls to
Here
are some things that have been going on recently since I’ve not written much
this month. Katherine went potty at Mrs. Candice’s and she went poop at home.
She wore panties for 4 hours last night and stayed dry through a trip to the
park and used the potty twice during that time. She’s very excited about the
promised trip to Sea World when she’s trained but she is a bit confused about
it. She says “now we can go to Sea World” every time she uses the potty and I
have to reiterate that we will go to Sea World when she doesn’t wear diapers
during the day anymore at all.
Lauren
is rolling all over and giving us big ol’ belly laughs now. She’s starting to
grasp things and put them in her mouth and she loves watching her sister. She’s
also grabbing her toes. Her hair is filling in and she’s still a pretty laid
back kid.
I
decided to paint my nails this week in an attempt to get them to grow.
Katherine was intrigued so I painted hers this morning. She’s such a priss and
was so proud of her fingernails! It was really fun seeing her excitement.
Other
than that, it’s just been the normal chaotic routine. Up in the morning, dress,
drive to daycare, run errands, work and clean house, pick K up from daycare
(this is where the chaos really kicks in), cook dinner, eat, go for a walk or
to the park, playtime, clean the kids, before bed snack, feed the fish, story
time, bedtime. Think we could fit a bit more in? I doubt it.
April
21, 2005
Katherine is
growing up! For the last few weeks, we've been mentioning potty training. We've
told her that we have panties for her, a trip to sea world when she's not
wearing diapers all day for a week, etc. She's had a few successes peeing and
one tiny little poop that snuck out when she was reading a story on the potty,
but nothing that has really stuck and been routine.
Last night, she peed twice in the potty and she'd gone to bed and came out an
hour later saying she had to go. I sat her on the pot and sure
enough...tinkles! What I thought was a bedtime avoidance tactic turned out to
be the real deal
So this morning, I asked her if she wanted panties or a diaper and she chose
panties. I put two extra pairs of shorts and panties in her bag and took her to
daycare. Ever the pessimist eh? Of course she's farting the entire way and I’m
totally sure she's pooped but nope, she was clean. LOL
I went to pick her up this afternoon and Candice said she was dry all day. NO
Accidents! She used the potty all day and just told Candice when she needed to
go! I was dumbfounded and very proud. I called DH and he stopped at the store
to pick up a balloon for her and pizza for dinner. When he got home, she asked
to sit on the potty and she not only peed she pooped too! Every time she goes,
she says "I'm ready to go to Sea World now mommy?".
I asked if Woody can take Tuesday off next week and we can go to Sea World. I'm so PROUD!
April 23, 2005
So it’s set. We
are goin’ to Sea World on Tuesday Baby!! I love seeing the excitement in
Katherine’s eyes when we do something new. She’s just so darn enthusiastic that
it rubs off on everyone. We’ve had a couple of accidents but nothing too
traumatic.
The first day that
she was dry all day, she wet a bit during dinner. The next day, no accidents at
all. Today I took both of the girls out for donuts and a library trip. We
enjoyed our donuts (well, K and I did…Lauren watched us eating and drooled a
lot J,)and went to the library. K had an accident almost as soon as we
got there. So we packed up and headed home. No big deal and it’s to be
expected.
She seems to have
it down at home and at Candice’s’, it’s when we are out that she tends to
forget. I’ve reminded her that there are bathrooms everywhere and that I have
her “special seat” in my purse at all times. The special seat is this cool
foldable potty seat for a kid that fits in my bag. It’s great! I don’t have to
worry about her pure little booty touching the vile filth that is in some
public bathrooms.
We went on a
family trip to Home Depot this afternoon and she said she needed to go. I
escorted her to the restroom and got out her “special seat” and she went. I’m
hoping that was the breakthrough we were waiting for.
Lauren has a
pretty wacky sense of humor. I was dressing Katherine in her PJ’s last night
after her bath and Woody brought Lauren in to watch. I was tickling Katherine
and spanking her butt and Lauren started howling with laughter…but only when I
swatted K’s buns. It was quite amusing.
April
28, 2005
We
took the girls to Sea World two days ago. It was fun but tiring. K really
enjoyed feeding the sea lions and watching Shamu & the dolphins. She also
did her first really embarrassing thing. We were in the bathroom and she went
potty and I took my turn. She exclaims “mommy, you have fur on yours mommy?!”.
I almost died. I said yes dear and hurried her out of there before the 20 other
people there had time to come out to see the furry lady. LOL It’s not like she
has never seen it before. I can’t imagine why she chose that moment to make the
exclamation. Little turkey. It was pretty funny but man; I could see where
someone without my sense of humor could have been mortified.
Her
imagination is also blooming. She slept in our room last night because Woody
was out of town on business. The baby monitor has two lights on it and she was
freaking out when I turned the lights off because it looked like a monster. It
kind of did look like a monster and now that she pointed that out, I may keep
it facing the other way permanently.
Later I told her that I was
proud of her but that we don't get treats every time we go potty. Woody said
um....I told her she gets two chocolate kisses and a lollipop every time she
uses the potty. I looked at him with what was apparently the crazy face,
because he backtracked and said, "We can wean it from her after a week or
two". What the heck!?! 
