2 a.m.
shuffle shuffle shuffle "Mommy?"
(Who is that? Where am I?) "What honey, whatsamatter?"
"Mommy, gotta go poopy."
"Ohhhh....God." (Quick calculations: Poop in Pull-ups, Mom stays in bed...poop in potty, Mom gets up, walks to the bathroom, stands under glaring light, waits for poop, redresses kid and then gets back in bed...Pull-ups on? Yes! Yes!)
"Tess, just go, ok? Mommy will change you when you are done."
Stamps foot "MOMMY! No! I'm a BIG GIRL, I go poopoo in the POTTY!"
"I know, hon, I know, but it's late and Mommy is really not awake, just go in your Pull-Up and then I will change you."
"NOOOOO! I go in the potty!"
Defeated, we march into the potty, turn on the light and stand there blind while I try to work the pajama and Pull-up combo that is already foiling me.
"Mommy, hurry! I have to go really bad!!!"
Finally free I pop her on pot and then sit there yawning while she does her thing. When she is done she won't get up. This is common. It is damn near impossible to get her off the potty. I usually have to resort to bribery but at 2:00 a.m. there is not a whole lot to work with.
"Are you finished yet?"
"No. I gotta go more."
This is a lie
2:15
"C'mon hon, I think you are done."
"No!"
"Let's go back to bed, ok?"
"No."
"How about you go back in bed and you can think about Caillou?" (a generous offer since Caillou is a banned presence in our home)
"No."
"You want to...go see what Nap is doing?" (Nap is her blanket. Even she knew that Nap probably wasn't up to much.)
"No."
"You want to," (ahhhhhhhh!) "sleep in Mommy's bed?"
"OK!" Jumps up, little pee drops splattering all over the place.
"Great, great, let's go."
We clean up, dress and get tucked into bed together. After a rousing 45 minute conversation whereby she speculates what Caillou might be doing right then and I say, shhh, she is finally asleep again, only an hour and fifteen minutes past the time she had to poop.
Freaking potty...
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this makes me feel better about our toilet training woes. i am about to throw in the towel and give up completely for a while.
But then I have fantasys of no rashes and a bathroom that only smells like poop momentarily but perpetually.
you just can't win, can ya? You want them potty trained, but then you have to scope out every. single. bathroom whenever you go somewhere....make sure they go before you leave, before they go to bed....diapers don't sound so bad now, huh?
can't wait till mine get potty trained..
This is how I get your daughter up from the potty:
C: "Tess, did you do it?? Wanna flush those poopies down the BIG POTTY!
T: "Tess do it?"
C: "Yup c'mon let's flush em' and sing the bye bye poopies song!"
She then jumps up bear butt-ed and I make up a little jingle about flushing the poop down the bowl.
Works everrryy time.
This kinda stuff is exactly why I wait basically until they ask me (or pre-school is two weeks away, which ever somes first) before I potty train. I'd rather change diapers.
LOL! That's funny! At least you aren't working right now so you don't have to worry about getting up for work :o) Do you take naps with Tess?
I used to take naps with her but now I tend to just eat lunch in peace and watch non-Sprout television :)
And who wouldn't want to be awakened at 2 AM for an adventure like that?
Yes....eating lunch in peace is always nice too :o)
Can I nap with you?
- Lynn
Wait...girls poop?
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Didn't you know that mommy's beds have a magical mystical power? It doesn't matter if my son is asleep when I put him in my bed... he will immediately wake up and begin a 45 minute long conversation about whatever is floating around his little head. One night he laid there and petted my head and said "Mommy, why is your hair this long? It goes from here (touches my forehead) to here (pets all the way to the back of my head and to the ends of my hair)." Then he says "Mom, I don't ever want you to change. So don't talk to stranger cause I don't want anything to happen to you..." Kids say the darndest things... especially when in mom's bed!
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