Christmas 2006 I received a gift card to one of the largest spas in the area. I have put off using it until this past weekend. (And the only reason I used it then was because it was going to expire at the end of the year.) Spas just make me nervous. I'm not an outgoing person and generally avoid new experiences. I just feel like I don't belong at a spa. But I decided to suck it up and make an appointment for a pedicure and a pregnancy message. The pedicure was so great. I love the way my toes look. At least I think I do since I really can't get too close to them at this point in my pregnancy. It's too bad that it's too cold to wear sandals now. I might actually have to consider another one come summer time. The message was a little awkward at first but really, how could it not be relaxing. The pillows she used so I could lay on my stomach cracked me up. But in the end it was worth it. All in all, it was a good day. Thanks Ken for watching the Tater.
Update on potty training...one accident in the past two days. Apparently the Halloween craft time at the sitters today was just too much of a distraction. But the big new is that Nate has poo'd on the potty the past two nights. I think he's starting to get the hang of this.
Update on Bug...this kid is growing and I still wish I could keep him/her in there longer. I love being pregnant and even though I can't wait to meet this little one, I already miss the fact that they won't be with me 24 hours a day for much longer.
Big weekend coming up. Trick or Treat Friday night and we are celebrating my Dad and my birthday. (His b-day is October 31 and mine is November 1.) Sunday is Nate's birthday party with family and on Monday Ken and I are taking the day off work so the three of us can do something fun on Nate's actual birthday. It's a cliche to say it, but I can't believe my baby is almost three years old already!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Potty Training - Part II
Update for Potty Training Day 3: 1 poopy accident and several pees on the pot.
For the most part we are depending taking Nate to the potty on regular intervals and not relying on him to tell us when he needs to go. But he did wake up this morning with his practice big boy pants (aka a Pull-Up) only slightly wet and didn't fuss when I made him sit on the potty first thing. We even got a pee! My sister Carrie watched him during the day and said he woke up from his nap dry and eventually went pee on the potty after sitting there crying for several minutes. (She also said she met someone as stubborn as her.) My other sister Mindy watched him in the evening and she got the poopy accident. Apparently Nate didn't even mention it to her after the fact, she just smelled him. When she asked him why he didn't come get her when he had to go, he told her that he forgot. Hmmm, we might have an issue with this eventually. But tonight after he was in bed and Ken was laying down on his bedroom floor "just for a minute", I heard Nate tell Daddy that he had to go pee and low and behold, he came downstairs with a dry Pull-Up and went pee on the potty. Maybe he is getting a hang of this thing after all. My mom and dad are coming over tomorow to spend the day with Nate and give him some more one-on-one attention. Keeping my fingers crossed for another good day!
Quick update on the other kid. I had an my 33 week OB appointment today. Only up one pound from two weeks ago. (I wonder about the scales at the office. Last appointment I gained 7 pounds in three weeks on a different scale.) But blood pressure was still really good and I was only measuring slightly big, around 34.5 or 35 weeks instead of 33.5 weeks. But since no one is expecting this Bug to be a tiny 6 pounder, everything seems pretty normal. Ken and I took a tour of the hospital. It was pretty personal since we were the only two people signed up. All we really have to remember is to park in the Yellow lot and go up the the third floor. I'm guessing the nurses and doctors will really take over from there.
Thanks to my family for all their support with this adventure. I don't know how we would be doing it without you!
For the most part we are depending taking Nate to the potty on regular intervals and not relying on him to tell us when he needs to go. But he did wake up this morning with his practice big boy pants (aka a Pull-Up) only slightly wet and didn't fuss when I made him sit on the potty first thing. We even got a pee! My sister Carrie watched him during the day and said he woke up from his nap dry and eventually went pee on the potty after sitting there crying for several minutes. (She also said she met someone as stubborn as her.) My other sister Mindy watched him in the evening and she got the poopy accident. Apparently Nate didn't even mention it to her after the fact, she just smelled him. When she asked him why he didn't come get her when he had to go, he told her that he forgot. Hmmm, we might have an issue with this eventually. But tonight after he was in bed and Ken was laying down on his bedroom floor "just for a minute", I heard Nate tell Daddy that he had to go pee and low and behold, he came downstairs with a dry Pull-Up and went pee on the potty. Maybe he is getting a hang of this thing after all. My mom and dad are coming over tomorow to spend the day with Nate and give him some more one-on-one attention. Keeping my fingers crossed for another good day!
Quick update on the other kid. I had an my 33 week OB appointment today. Only up one pound from two weeks ago. (I wonder about the scales at the office. Last appointment I gained 7 pounds in three weeks on a different scale.) But blood pressure was still really good and I was only measuring slightly big, around 34.5 or 35 weeks instead of 33.5 weeks. But since no one is expecting this Bug to be a tiny 6 pounder, everything seems pretty normal. Ken and I took a tour of the hospital. It was pretty personal since we were the only two people signed up. All we really have to remember is to park in the Yellow lot and go up the the third floor. I'm guessing the nurses and doctors will really take over from there.
Thanks to my family for all their support with this adventure. I don't know how we would be doing it without you!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Potty Training - Part I
Well, we finally took the plunge. We've tried potty training several times without much success and giving up fairly easily. (I looked back in Nate's baby book - aka the bunch of post it notes I have thrown inside his baby book- and there are notes about how he was going poo and pee on the potty in September...of 2007.) But this past weekend we dove into potty training and we're not looking back!
Since we've tried this in the past and did not get very far, I decided that we should try something different. There is a book about "Potty Training in One Day". The basic idea is that you have a big party for your toddler and focus the whole day around potty training. So the night before we started training, Ken and I decorated the bathroom with streamers and balloons, wrapped up the new doll that Nate was supposed to train to use the potty in the morning, got the treats and surprises all wrapped up, and laid out the potty videos and books we got at the library.
Sunday morning we hear Nate start talking so Ken and I muster up all the enthusiasm that could possibly be had at 7:30 am and rush into Nate's room and tell him there is a surprise for him downstairs in the bathroom. Now, the book said as long as you are excited about the doll, the child will be too. Nate tore downstairs and could care less that there was a wrapped present inside for him. All he wanted were the balloons that we had used to decorate for the "potty party". He finally opened the doll but really could care less. I ended up naming the doll Pete for him. We were supposed to start watching potty videos and reading potty books and getting Nate and Pete both excited about being big boys. I was thinking this would be great because Nate loves to watch TV. We had Elmo's Potty Time and Bear in the Big Blue House Potty DVDs along with some potty video from Huggies. Nate unenthusiastically chose Elmo to watch and five minutes into it, he was complaining that he didn't want to watch it, he wanted to watch Blue's Clues. We convinced him to leave Elmo on for awhile.
The next step is that the child is supposed to teach the doll to use the potty. So Ken and say that Pete has to go potty and Nate should show him how to go on the potty. Success! Nate buys into the whole thing about the doll going pee on the potty. After Pete went on the potty, we picked out a sticker to go on Pete's potty chart. Then the treat. The book explains that the child will pick out a treat for the doll and if the child promises to use the potty "someday" then the child can have the dolls treat. So Nate picked out a treat for Pete but then wanted to pick out a treat for himself. We were very, very near tears and a total meltdown as we tried to explain that the treats were for using the potty and Pete has used the potty. I think he had picked his least favorite treat to give to Pete and was looking for a good one for himself.
After another 30 minutes or so of trying to get Nate to train Pete to use the potty, we gave up on the concept. It just wasn't working for Nate. So out came the new big boy pants for Nate and on they went. We spent the rest of the day running to the potty and practicing going. Two big wet accidents the first day and couple of little ones. But there were several successes along with two poos on the potty! Today my parent's came over and watched Nate with about the same amount of successes and accidents as the day before. Tomorrow my sisters are tag teaming since I have a doctor's appointment at 3:30 and then Ken and I tour the maternity ward at the hospital in the evening. We are so lucky to be able to have family pitch in like this with the training. We're hoping to have Nate trained well enough to go to the sitter's on Wednesday or Thursday without too much back tracking.
So this is the last of the three big hurdles I wanted to have tackled with Nate before the baby arrives. The binky fairy took the binkies at the end of the summer. He started sleeping in his big boy bed a couple of weeks ago. And now potty training. Is his third birthday really only two weeks away?!?
Since we've tried this in the past and did not get very far, I decided that we should try something different. There is a book about "Potty Training in One Day". The basic idea is that you have a big party for your toddler and focus the whole day around potty training. So the night before we started training, Ken and I decorated the bathroom with streamers and balloons, wrapped up the new doll that Nate was supposed to train to use the potty in the morning, got the treats and surprises all wrapped up, and laid out the potty videos and books we got at the library.
Sunday morning we hear Nate start talking so Ken and I muster up all the enthusiasm that could possibly be had at 7:30 am and rush into Nate's room and tell him there is a surprise for him downstairs in the bathroom. Now, the book said as long as you are excited about the doll, the child will be too. Nate tore downstairs and could care less that there was a wrapped present inside for him. All he wanted were the balloons that we had used to decorate for the "potty party". He finally opened the doll but really could care less. I ended up naming the doll Pete for him. We were supposed to start watching potty videos and reading potty books and getting Nate and Pete both excited about being big boys. I was thinking this would be great because Nate loves to watch TV. We had Elmo's Potty Time and Bear in the Big Blue House Potty DVDs along with some potty video from Huggies. Nate unenthusiastically chose Elmo to watch and five minutes into it, he was complaining that he didn't want to watch it, he wanted to watch Blue's Clues. We convinced him to leave Elmo on for awhile.
The next step is that the child is supposed to teach the doll to use the potty. So Ken and say that Pete has to go potty and Nate should show him how to go on the potty. Success! Nate buys into the whole thing about the doll going pee on the potty. After Pete went on the potty, we picked out a sticker to go on Pete's potty chart. Then the treat. The book explains that the child will pick out a treat for the doll and if the child promises to use the potty "someday" then the child can have the dolls treat. So Nate picked out a treat for Pete but then wanted to pick out a treat for himself. We were very, very near tears and a total meltdown as we tried to explain that the treats were for using the potty and Pete has used the potty. I think he had picked his least favorite treat to give to Pete and was looking for a good one for himself.
After another 30 minutes or so of trying to get Nate to train Pete to use the potty, we gave up on the concept. It just wasn't working for Nate. So out came the new big boy pants for Nate and on they went. We spent the rest of the day running to the potty and practicing going. Two big wet accidents the first day and couple of little ones. But there were several successes along with two poos on the potty! Today my parent's came over and watched Nate with about the same amount of successes and accidents as the day before. Tomorrow my sisters are tag teaming since I have a doctor's appointment at 3:30 and then Ken and I tour the maternity ward at the hospital in the evening. We are so lucky to be able to have family pitch in like this with the training. We're hoping to have Nate trained well enough to go to the sitter's on Wednesday or Thursday without too much back tracking.
So this is the last of the three big hurdles I wanted to have tackled with Nate before the baby arrives. The binky fairy took the binkies at the end of the summer. He started sleeping in his big boy bed a couple of weeks ago. And now potty training. Is his third birthday really only two weeks away?!?
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