I know she can hold it

Wouldn't you think after not being wet for at least 2 hours, then sitting on the potty for 1 hour while drinking 2 sippy cups of milk that it would just happen? At least that's what I thought. But no, it only happens 30 seconds after putting the diaper back on. I'm not even sure I could hold it that long! I tried everything: stripped her down naked (that's the form it happened in the first time), tickled her, bribed her with cookies...nothing worked! Ah well, I'll try not to make this the potty blog every post.

I spoke with the director at daycare again about her transition into the Twaddler room. They haven't been too consistent with it. So today she was in there from about 10am until I picked her up a little after 5pm. That's the longest she has spent in there at one time. She even took a 2-hour nap in there (usually only sleeps an hour in Toddler room). The interesting thing I learned is that they don't let the kids have sippy cups. They only drink out of real cups. Maybe that's why she drank 2 cups for me tonight if she didn't get very much during the day. I guess we'll have to start practicing drinking from regular cups at home.

Potty Time!

She did it! She finally went pee pee on the potty! I know this is just the beginning, but it seems like we just got past a huge hurdle. I had checked her diaper because I thought she was saying "diapey", but it was dry. And I knew it had been at least 2 hours since she last had it changed so I took her in the bathroom to sit on her potty. We were in there for awhile. I even pulled out the bubbles to help pass the time. Then she heard the Elmo's World theme song on in the other room, so she got off her potty and started walking out of the bathroom with her pants around her ankles. I grabbed her potty and followed her into the living room. I figured it's gotta come out eventually. We watched the entire Elmo's world segment which lasted about 15 minutes and nothing happened except a nice red ring on her bottom from sitting on the plastic for so long. During this time, she managed to completely undress herself and was sitting in the middle of the living room on her potty naked! So I asked if she wanted to take a bath. Of course her answer was "no". In the art of negotiating, I told her to put her pee pee in the potty instead. I think I was in a state of shock when a few moments later I heard it! The good news is it really didn't startle her. I tried to make sure she understood what happened by letting her look in the potty and see the pee pee. The only time she seemed a little frightened is when I poured her pee pee from her potty into the big potty. So I think next time I won't share that part with her.

Who knew I could ramble on so long about pee!

Spring Flowers

Paige was exploring the flowers in our front yard. Here are some pictures I put together in a ScrapBlog.

Other sites

Just a quick reminder that there are two other places to check for pictures and such.

Mom's Scrapblog site. Mom continues to have a great time playing around with scrapblogs about Paige, the house, etc. She usually posts here when she finishes a new one--but not always, so be sure to check there for updates!

Paige's Picasa site. We'll occasionally just dump a bunch of pictures to this site, often without comment.

I've added permanent links at the top-right so that you can find those sites easily. :)
-Dad

Counting to 5

Last night, we went over to play in the park again after dinner. Paige was climbing the stairs to ride the slide and as she took each step, she counted it all by herself! We didn't even prompt her. There were 5 steps and she counted each one very clearly as she stepped on it: one, two, three, four, five!

Usually when I pick her up out of the carseat or whatever, I'll go: one, two, three, UP! So, I wasn't all that surprised when she started saying one, two, three last week. But we rarely count up to 5. Must be all that Sesame Street that she's watching!

Paige Update

I figure since this is Paige's blog, I should probably write about Paige :)



Tonight, we were watching Elmo together on tv and she gets up off the couch and grabs on to her diaper and said something like either pee or diapee. So I told her we'd go sit on the potty. I figured it was probably too late since usually she tells us after she went. But this time her diaper was dry when I took it off and sat her down. She sat and we talked and she sat and sat there. Finally I started getting a bath ready since we were just sitting and waiting. Normally she opposes taking a bath, but this time she started undressing herself while she was sitting on the potty and then walked over to the tub saying "bath". So I put her in the tub after her unsuccessful potty time. Not more than 1 minute later, the water starts turning yellow! I think we can consider this a milestone since she recognized needing to go potty before she pee'd and also being able to deliberately hold in the pee until she was off the potty.

Picture day is this Friday at daycare! And guess what they are serving for lunch that day....sloppy joes. Hopefully they'll get her picture in before they eat lunch and maybe I'll send a spare set of clothes for her to wear after picture time. They stop using bibs in the Toddler room at daycare. I swear I spent hours scrubbing out the chili stains on her white t-shirt last week and the stains still didn't fully come out. Maybe I'll send a bib on Friday and hope they remember to put it on her.

The weather is warming up. It's in the 90's this week! Over the weekend, we went to the playground in our development. Paige just loves the slides. The one slide twists around and is at least 8-10 feet tall. She goes down it all by herself! We also went to Peter Piper Pizza last week and she was going down their big kid slides which seemed to go really fast and just loved it. She didn't want to look at any of the other games there, just the slides!

Halloween Pictures

I know, it's April. Hopefully this isn't your first time seeing the Halloween pictures we took of Paige over the last 2 years. I was just playing around in my favorite ScrapBlog tool and couldn't help making one with their cool Halloween themes. The first two pages are from 2006 and the last 3 pages are 2007. She developed from a piggy to a princess! It'll be interesting to see what she is in 2008 now that the terrible twos are here.



In other news
A quick update on the house: Inspection was this week and either they had a lousy inspector or we are fantastic homeowners (I seem to think it's the latter). Anyway, the inspector found absolutely NO problems with our house! I really didn't think there would be anything major, but you know they can always nitpick if they want to. The appraisal was on Friday and we haven't heard any news on that yet. We're hoping no news is good news.

Twaddler transition

At Paige's daycare the next room up with the 2-3 year olds is called the Twaddler room. Even though she has a little over a month until she turns 2, daycare is anxious for her to move up. At first I wasn't crazy about the idea of her being the youngest kid in the classroom again, but it's starting to grow on me. She's gone in there twice already. Today she was there for about 2 hours and the teachers said she did great. They have the room divided, so most of the time it's only 2-2.5 yrs on one side and 2.5-3 yrs on the other side. But in the mornings and later in the day when there are less kids they combine all the kids onto one side. In her current toddler room, she's the oldest and most of the children don't talk much. But in twaddlers, a lot of them are pretty good speakers and she picks it up pretty quickly. It could just be my imagination, but even after 2 hours today, when I picked her up she seemed to be using her words a lot better. I think being with the older kids will only help her learn and advance quicker.

Paige loves her sunglasses. She wore them when we were leaving daycare and then still had them on in the car. Of course about 5 minutes later she had them off and was playing with them. Finally I took them from her and told her she could have them back when we get home. Usually this brings on a tantrum when you take anything away from her. But I just kept telling her she'd get them when we got home. It was finally starting to sink in and she would repeat "glasses home, glasses home, glasses home" over and over again for most of the ride home. Here's a picture of her in her glasses when we finally got home.

Our House

This has been a huge week for us. We had an offer on the house that we accepted. We're trying not to get too excited about it until after we close (which could be a few more weeks from now). We have the appraisal and inspection coming up this week, so I think we'll at least be a bit more relieved after those happen.

I took some pictures of the backyard and put in the scrapblog below. We are definitely outgrowing this house, but at the same time it will be sad for us to leave it since it was our first house and everything Paige has ever known.

Soggy Sandy

A few weeks ago, we bought Paige "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland." It's a fun little romp, and Paige loves it...all Elmo, all the time.

There's a little diddy that's been in my head from the movie. It's a short little song by a grouch kid, and I was surprised that Google couldn't find the lyrics anywhere on the web. So I've decided to reproduce them here. I think this would be a fabulous toy idea, provided that the doll came with the song:

"Soggy Sandy wet her pants,
That's why they call her soggy.
Watch her do her soggy dance,
Then after you'll get wet."

Hopefully this post will help get it out of my head!!! -Dad

Being Silly

Here's yet another ScrapBlog. If you click in the lower right corner, where it says ScrapBlog, it will open a new window to the scrap blog site. Then there will be another link at the top right corner that says View Full Screen. That will give you the best view. I know it can be difficult to see the pictures when you're just looking at it inside this blog.

These pictures were all taken last night when I was trying to change her into her pj's. I'm not sure if you can see in that first picture, but she still has her sandals on. And when I finally got her to put her pj's on and I took off those sandals she had the biggest fit! So I put them back on her on top of her footed pj's (I wish I would've taken a picture of that). She actually slept with them on all night and wore the sandals again to school today!

Day at the Park

On the Saturday before Easter, we went to the McCormick-Stillman Railroad park in Scottsdale for the day. The train went all around the park. She loved the Merry-Go-Round! She kept asking to ride it again. They also had a very nice playground. She was fearless when it came to going down the slides...even the big ones!