10 days until Christmas!!!
And how is your shopping going?
This was a big weekend for our house to catch up on a lot of things and some big lessons learned:
1) After three hours of unpleasantries betwixt my spouse and I . . . the christmas cards are in the passenger seat of the new van waiting to be dropped off over lunch.
Lesson Learned: Actual pictures are WAY to expensive to get for Christmas cards. Next year I'll pick out 4 -5 shots of kids and family to make color copiers on the copy machine like Mom and Dad do. . . although the letter will be no where near the level of dad.
2) Mom and I did Christmas baking on Saturday and made a good dent in the pre-holiday baking. During the entire session, she kept saying, "Why didn't we start doing this years ago?" Which my mind translated into "This is much better than trying to do this the day before Christmas Eve at 3 in the morning!"
Lesson Learned: Next year, we need to make a weekend out of it and get the shopping done friday night before. The shopping/softening/plan of attack process should get refined by about year three I hope.
Oh, and we won't plan on cooking indoors all day on the nicest day of December either because . . .
3) I completed MOST of the family christmas shopping on Sunday. this is a tough year for us, with just having bought a new vehicle and shelling out a lot of cash for the other one to be up and running, so I tried to stick to a very strict budget this year . . . which led to a few discussions (not quite heated . . .but a bit intense for us) with the spouse about why spending ten extra dollars on one person was a mortal sin. Oh and by the way, I was the winner and the ten dollars was NOT spent.
Lesson Learned: When we sit down to look at finances for next year . . which we most definitely will with a baby on the way, we are budgeting for gifts for birthdays and Christmas next year.
But the weekend was a pretty good time overall. Alaina had a lot of fun singing along with the Chrsitmas station on the radio yesterday, bursting into song with and occasional "SNOW!" "GLOW," or "CHRISTMAS!" sung at the top of her lungs. She usually joined in with any word at the end of the line that was sung for more that four seconds. It was so darn cute I wish I had it on tape, but she clammed up whenever we got near.
However, we did try going with training pants all weekend, with a few painful parts. I probably didn't approach this right, but after the third time she walked up to inform me that she was poopy and I needed to change her diaper, I informed her that she was wearing panties, and you don't change panties because you don't poop in them.
Alaina stared at me as if I had gone mad.
I said underwear isn't for changing. So you have to go to the bathroom in the toilet. She said, "No! Change my diaper!" So I said again that she wasn't wearing a diaper she was wearing underwear and underwear isn't for pooping and peeing in.
She started to pout quite prettily at this point, so I said I was sad that she didn't want to go to the bathroom in the toilet like big girls because I just know that she is a big girl and can do it. Which I got a resounding "Yes I can!" for so we hugged and went to take off her underwear and take a bath.
I told her next weekend is a no diaper weekend again, which she seemed pretty open too, so we'll see what happens.
I suppose I did that kind of backwards, but I know that she does well with the toilet at daycare so I'm a little frustrated that she refuses to try at home. Its just flat out time to encourage the switch to big girl undies.
Does anyone have a tip on a sticker chart or candy reward system?
4 comments:
I always just let the child go in a long shirt, with nothing on their bottom half. They are used to knowing that when something is on down there, they "go" in it. I can honestly say, whether daycare child or my own, I have had 100% success in less than one week, boy or girl. Give it a shot. If she is doing ok at daycare, she will do it at home soon, too!! As far as a reward system, I never really did that, but know that my friend gave her child an M&M every time they went #1 and when they went #2, they got a prize out of the basket (cheap little things from the dollar store). Just some ideas! GOOD LUCK!!! My dear Aunt J always told us that she bet they wouldn't go to Kindergarten in a diaper.... guess what.... she was RIGHT!!! ;)
No worries - she'll get it figured out. It sounds to me like you're doing a great job! Mason caught on last month, so was 31 months old. Something just finally clicked, it was like that for both of my kids.
Oh, just let her poop her panties. Honestly, it's not like you have anything better to do than to clean #2 out of clothing. I was thinking of pooping my panties for fun when I come home for Christmas and stay with you, but I guess I will just have to do it at mom and dad's. She is always asking if I have laundry...
:)
Ve-r-r-ry Funny! It's your dad's turn. I did the first 27 years, he gets the next! (Do the spell check for me, I can't see through my tears of laughter!)
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