This has been hell week for me. Yesterday, Jeff called to ask about my day, because he is just like that, and I said, “today is the worst day of my life and I have had a really horrid life.” I do tend to be a tad over dramatic, but still.
Sunday I took Lily shopping, we went to several Japanese stores to get everything we would need to kick potty training in the ass. Our American potty chair was not working, it is terribly uncomfortable. So we got a Hello Kitty Japanese potty chair, it is the bomb. It cost $30 or $35 I forget, blocked it out. That may be a lot of money, but it is so cute and it is so comfortable that Lily will actually sit on it. Score. Sunday and Monday Lily sat on the potty and got familiar with it. We wore panties while at home. She no longer has accidents she just waits for the diaper, that eventually will come at naps, outings or bedtime. The girl can hold it for many hours.
Tuesday morning she woke up with a dry diaper, as she does almost every morning for the last year. I decided – if she can sleep through the night, and she can hold it, and she can take off her own panties, etc. It was time to at least try going for gold. Now I ask you, my dear friends, is a child potty trained when they stop wearing diapers or when they stop having accidents. Because Lily has stopped wearing diapers, as of Tuesday.
Turns out Lily only pees 3-4 times per day. But when she goes, she goes, and goes. We had a lot of accidents on Tuesday as we expected, its all good, part of life. I was terribly frustrated. Not so much at the accidents as with not knowing if I was doing the right thing. I didn’t want to traumatize the poor girl but I did think that perhaps it was time to put a little pressure on her. To take away the diapers.
When Mandy came home from work, I was busy cleaning the house. I tend to go crazy with the cleaning when I am frustrated. Concentrate on what I know I can control, the eliminations of all dirt. Mandy asked if we were having company. Ha, like that is the only time I clean the house. I told her what was going on and she retreated to her room for her afternoon nap. I continued to clean. At about 7PM I convinced Lily to sit on her potty while we put together puzzles on the coffee table. This went on for almost an hour. It was almost time to put her to bed. I wasn’t really sure what to do. Give her the diaper for bed, let her wet the bed, let her stay up until she peed? I am staring off into space trying to figure out what we should do while Lily put together a puzzle.
Just as she was about to insert the last piece of the puzzle into place, she turned the piece around and faced it in the wrong direction, and asked me: “does this go here”. I laughed and said, “no”. In my funny growly voice that she loves. And she laughed and we did that for awhile. She thought it was so funny, but my throat starts to get sore after awhile and I started saying no in a regular voice and then she took over the growly voice. It was so funny. She is a hoot. She may never get the hang of potty training but she sure is cute. She could see that I was having a bad day and made me feel better with her little joke. It was sweet, just like her dad, he does that all the time too. I just noticed sitting there that Lily is amazing. I just love her so much. I love summer time seeing the chubby little legs and feet. Cuddling skin to skin. It is lovely. I love being able to stay home with her everyday and have all those silly in-jokes that we have just between the two of us. We laugh together so much. She is a nut and loves to make up stuff that will get me laughing. Who could ask for more. So she doesn’t go potty in the potty chair, if you said that not wearing diapers makes you potty trained, well then she is potty trained. See.
The very next moment, Lily walked over to her potty sat down and peed. It was about six cups worth of pee, because she had been holding it since about 1pm that afternoon. She looked me in the eye and said, I peed in the potty. She got a sticker on the had and went to bed in her panties. Today is Friday and we are doing pretty good. Yesterday, was a bad day, but after I told Jeff it was the worst day of my life, she actually pooped in the potty. She does great at night and does great during the day, if I stay home until she chooses to go. Sometimes she holds it until 11 and she gets up at 5:30. What a nut. She is so out of sorts with the worry of it all and the change, but she is still my angel and takes the time to make me laugh. Another day in the life of a stay at home mom in Japan.
I Think I May Have A Screw Loose
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I saw my podiatrist yesterday. One part of my foot is still hurting (it's
been almost two months since the surgery). He thinks it may be one of the
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3 comments:
Well at least you know your moods! Lily is getting there. Accidents happen. At least she will sit on the pot. Jake is not interested. I feel just like you do about staying home and appreciating the joys of childhood. I have to go back to work and am so hesitant about it. But Jake needs the interaction with other kids more than he needs to be just with me, which is what has happened since we moved here. So it will be the best for both of us. One day all this potty stuff will be behind us and we will be upset because our babies are starting kindergarten. If it isn't one thing its another! Have a great weekend.
I think Lily has a larger bladder than I do, geesh!
It took a lot to get Griffin trained, and I'm not even remotely concerned about trainng Darwin anytime soon. Perhaps when he's three.
Yeah...when you are on car trips with Lily, you're gonna be happy she's got that big, elastic bladder!
Actually it'll come in handy when she's at keg parties in college...
Wait...I shouldn't have mentioned that, right?
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