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Monday, October 22, 2012
It's A........
We had our ultrasound today. It's a....GIRL. We of course love girls so wer're super excited. Now only 4.25 more months of this pregnancy business. In other news, Isabel is talking like crazy. I love her sweet little voice and am so taken aback by the things I hear her say. This afternoon I sneezed and she non chalantly said, "bless you". I love it. Her little voice is so cute. Here is a video of her amazing animal identifying skills. :)
Potty Training Funsies
One woe of being a parent: Diapers are a hassle. Whether you cloth diaper or fork out the dough for disposables there's just no way around the ickiness of diapering.
This led Dave and me to seek out potty training advise. I bought a potty for Isabel super early, like when she was 15 months. She was in no way interested in peeing on the potty. Then I came across this article on babycenter.com. We tried it when Isabel was 18 months old and it totally worked! The first day was rough. Isabel had "accidents" EVERYWHERE. I was ready to give up but Dave remained patient and the second day it just clicked for our sweet girl.
Since our fun filled potty training weekend she has been awesome. She has very few accidents. However, we've had to get used to a baby running around with no pants on when we're at home. Which leads me to a funny story that happened just last night. Isabel had not had her "number 2" for the day so I was watching her like a hawk since I had put stretchpants on her. She's a funny girl and likes to have her privacy when she does her business, so typically she goes upstairs and goes potty on the potty in her room. When she's finished she yells, "Help, Help, Help, POOOOOP" When I hear this I know I better come running because she wants me to wipe her bumm and empty her potty. So last night I got busy on the computer and didn't notice that it had gotten pretty quiet. A thought popped into my head that I should check on Isabel since she hasn't quite mastered the technique of taking her pants off before sitting on the potty. I ran upstairs (literally two minutes had gone by) and sure enough, there she was sitting on the potty with her pants ON. She looked at me proudly, pointed in the potty and shouted, "POOOOP, PEEE" which she followed up with her cute little potty dance. When I tried to carefully take her pants off in such a way to contain all the little "2's" it was to no avail. I was greeted by little nuggets rolling down her legs onto the freshly cleaned carpets. Awesome. So, while I desperately tried to hold my child on the potty so she wouldn't step in anything and I hadn't managed to get her pants off yet so I didn't want more to fall out, I looked for a package of wipes nearby (which there wasn't any to be found) to pick up the poop with. Definitely not my finest moment. Thank heavens for bath time, that's all I have to say. In her defense she did poop on the potty. :)
We spent the next half hour pulling all the different pairs of pants out of her drawers and practiced putting them on and taking them off. We'll get this thing down. So, up side of potty training early: no more diapers!!!! Downside: She can't really take her pants off herself which sometimes leads to poop disasters.
Another upside: Teeny tiny little undies.
This led Dave and me to seek out potty training advise. I bought a potty for Isabel super early, like when she was 15 months. She was in no way interested in peeing on the potty. Then I came across this article on babycenter.com. We tried it when Isabel was 18 months old and it totally worked! The first day was rough. Isabel had "accidents" EVERYWHERE. I was ready to give up but Dave remained patient and the second day it just clicked for our sweet girl.
Since our fun filled potty training weekend she has been awesome. She has very few accidents. However, we've had to get used to a baby running around with no pants on when we're at home. Which leads me to a funny story that happened just last night. Isabel had not had her "number 2" for the day so I was watching her like a hawk since I had put stretchpants on her. She's a funny girl and likes to have her privacy when she does her business, so typically she goes upstairs and goes potty on the potty in her room. When she's finished she yells, "Help, Help, Help, POOOOOP" When I hear this I know I better come running because she wants me to wipe her bumm and empty her potty. So last night I got busy on the computer and didn't notice that it had gotten pretty quiet. A thought popped into my head that I should check on Isabel since she hasn't quite mastered the technique of taking her pants off before sitting on the potty. I ran upstairs (literally two minutes had gone by) and sure enough, there she was sitting on the potty with her pants ON. She looked at me proudly, pointed in the potty and shouted, "POOOOP, PEEE" which she followed up with her cute little potty dance. When I tried to carefully take her pants off in such a way to contain all the little "2's" it was to no avail. I was greeted by little nuggets rolling down her legs onto the freshly cleaned carpets. Awesome. So, while I desperately tried to hold my child on the potty so she wouldn't step in anything and I hadn't managed to get her pants off yet so I didn't want more to fall out, I looked for a package of wipes nearby (which there wasn't any to be found) to pick up the poop with. Definitely not my finest moment. Thank heavens for bath time, that's all I have to say. In her defense she did poop on the potty. :)
We spent the next half hour pulling all the different pairs of pants out of her drawers and practiced putting them on and taking them off. We'll get this thing down. So, up side of potty training early: no more diapers!!!! Downside: She can't really take her pants off herself which sometimes leads to poop disasters.
Another upside: Teeny tiny little undies.
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