potty training, day four.

Another morning completely dry! And four days completely dry at school and home - including nap time.

We are two and two for nighttime accidents. I'm pretty happy. Oh - and last night, she did her normal thing of peeing before bed. Then getting up immediately to pee again. Then getting up immediately after that (which pissed me off for a moment) until I realized she got on the potty to poop! yay!!

(if anyone without children yet is reading this, I know it seems funny to have me talk about peeing and pooping like I talk about the weather. But believe me, it becomes such a very normal, everyday conversation topic!)

"What's a 'bad word'?"

This is a post that I can't help but put on both my blogs. I probably should be more horrified than anything about it, but what the hell.

We were eating dinner and I used the word "dumb". Ella told me that it was a bad word. So we get into the bad word conversation about saying a word vs calling someone a name, etc.

This was the well needed END of the conversation:

Me: "Ella, what is a bad word?" (looking for her child-like definition)
Ella: "Fuck."
Me: "Well, that certainly is an example of a bad word, but not what I was going for"

oh. my. god.

Potty training, day two.

Allison woke up dry! Went potty first thing and she's been dry so far.

So far, so good.

Potty training, day one.

It's time. It's time to suck it up and potty train Allison.

Although she's been going on the potty for months, she goes to school in panties and if I (or her teachers) stay on top of her, she'll stay dry all day, it's time to finish up the process.

Nighttime.

And the way I do this is just get ready to do a lot of laundry. No more pull ups. No more "just at night" diapers. Panties all the way. Make or break time. She'll wet the bed for the next few night and if she's anything like Ella, by Monday, we'll be done.

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a pre-update update. I actually started this last night (monday night) and she wet the bed in the middle of the night. She changed herself then came to get me to change the sheets. Tonight, after she went to bed, she's got up 3 times to pee in a 5 minute time period. After the second time, she asked me for a diaper and I said "no, you are a big girl now." She then got up a third time and pooped in the potty. Yup, we're well on our way.

tears.

I haven't seen my kids since Sunday night. 4 days since I've hugged them.

Good lord. Business trips can really suck. It's not worth the dinners out and nights full of sleep.

I. Miss. Them.