January 16, 2008 | Potty Training, The Blue One
There is nothing like watching your son army crawling under the stall door in a public restroom to make you think -Huh, maybe I don’t want him to be potty trained after all.
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November 1, 2007 | Parenting, Potty Training, The Goon Squad, The Pink One
My kids still aren’t potty trained.
As a bonus, they are reluctant to let me change their Pull Ups. I mean, I go out of my way to buy the kind with “cool alert” hoping that they will be uncomfortable and want to change.
Anyway, we had a big morning where we ran a bunch of errands. The Squad were basically pretty good so I took them through the McDonalds drive-thru (I feel stupid typing thru, but that is how they spell it) and so as a direct result both kids pooped in their pants within twenty minutes.
Then they don’t want to change their Pull-Ups.
This drives me crazy. I ask them 50 times to get a pair of underpants or a new Pull-Up so that we can get them changed. I even accused them of being super stinky.
Finally, I was so frustrated that I said “Do you want to change your pants or do you want to sit in your own feces all day?”.
And of course I get this answer from my daughter.
“We want to sit in our own feces.”
There is a sentence I never thought I would hear.
So now my children are sitting in their own crap (or probably standing if you want the truth) and I am sitting here, feces free, telling the entire internet about it.
I am an excellent parent.
September 18, 2007 | Parenting, Potty Training, Preschool, The Blue One
So far my kids have had three days of school. Well, one half day and two full days.
So far Ian has pooped in his pants every single day of school. The first two days he wore underpants.
Yesterday, the director of the school asked me to please bring him to school in pull ups. Not his teacher, the director. So, I am THAT mom. I am the one mom of the only two three year olds in the class that aren’t potty trained.
I am actually trying to decide if I should be embarrassed, frustrated, or if I should just laugh and be glad I didn’t have to change him those three times.
August 16, 2007 | Potty Training
I had big plans for yesterday.
Well, big plans considering we have been on potty training lock down for over a week now.
We were going to go grocery shopping in the morning, then we were going to go to the pool. Of course, the kids were insane, so even though I began trying to get to the store at 9:00am, by 4:00pm I had completely given up on leaving the house at all and decided to order Chinese food for dinner.
So for today I planned ahead. I started prepping the kids yesterday.
Okay, tomorrow we are going to get up and eat breakfast. Then we are going to go to the doctors office and drop off some paperwork for them to fill out for school. Then we will go to the grocery store. If you guys are good we can go to the pool Sound good?
Then I got them to repeat it back to me. They were ready: doctor, store, pool.
So guess what?
(stupid map wouldn’t copy the words, but I assure you I live where it is raining)
August 10, 2007 | Parenting, Potty Training, The Goon Squad
After a full week of potty training lock down things are looking up on the pee front.
If you noticed that it would seem like Claudia has peed into the future, do not be alarmed. Those are just from the times that she was putting her stickers on while I was supervising Ian’s urination.
I told them that they can’t go anywhere until they both poop in the potty. Hopefully we will be able to leave the house by 2008.
