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.