Once the weather started to get warm, I came up with the oh so bright idea of not turning the air conditioning on. I'm saving some serious cash (like, cut my electric bill in half) and now it's 80 inside my house. But we're halfway through the summer and it's too late to chicken out now! So we've been spending a ton of time outside, the kid in the pool and mama in her KICKASS reclining lawn chair.
(Yes, the pool is shaped like a whale. And it was well worth the 20 bucks.)
(The view from my totally kickass lawn chair.)
I LOVE my new lawn chair. It was on sale for 30 bucks (down from 75) at Tarjay. And they're so damn comfortable I feel like buying two more and putting the suckers in my living room. Screw sitting on a boring old couch, I've got RECLINING LAWN CHAIRS bitches!
In totally unrelated news, hubby and I have decided to postpone fertility treatments (at least for the immediate future). I did not make that decision willingly. Yes I'm pissed, and no I don't want to talk about it. Dammit.
Anyway...
For all my experienced mamas out there, I need your wisdom! I'm still struggling to potty train a kid who will be THREE in less than three weeks. SIGH. The kid is so damn tall she's wearing a 5T, but she still wants to poop in her pants. And for those of you who are unaware, toddler poop is like elephant poop- in size, smell, and quantity. Therein lies my desperation.
We went to the store and picked out Big Girl Underwear, in the much coveted Tinkerbell and Dora designs. And the wearing of the Big Girl Underwear seems to help a great deal. The kid seems very reluctant to "...mess up my faeries!" and she actually pooped in the potty today. But there has been much peeing of pants in my household lately.
But I figure that if my biggest worry lately is my kid's poop, I'm doin pretty good right?
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BTW...I went to Target to find said pool. I found said pool and BEGGED a certain boyfriend to buy it. Nope, we need to wait until next payday. So I bought I dinky ass $5 baby pool that is NOWHERE NEAR AS COOL. Yet he had $20 for a new DVD he wanted....Bastard.
Have you tried letting her go without underwear or a diaper. Tell her that she's too big for diapers and that she can't wear her "fairies" until she's big enough not to pee in them. So risky, I know and totally dependant on her attitude. Some kids might be bothered by it and others might not mind peeing wherever. I'd also tell her she can't be on the furniture until she pees on the potty consistently. This also is dependent on your tolerance for cleaning up puddles! Just a suggestion.
BRIBE HER, that is what we did with ours. Find something that she REALLY likes that is small and inexpensive, we used mini m&m's, and tell her she can get it ONLY when she goes potty on the toilet. We didn't give ours any candy for the time we were potty training so it was a worshipped thing to get. If she went pee on potty she got ONE MINI M&M, if she pooped on said potty she got TWO MINI M&M's. One package of mini's lasted us the training period. Good Luck, keep us posted!
You bought the whale! How cute. I had to decide between a whale and a frog. I got the frog, but the whale is cuter. Dang. Keep up with the no a/c if you can! That's awesome. We can't do that here with 95+ days lingering for a week or two on end....but that's okay. I just won't pay them! LOL
(as for the potty training, I could tell you what I did, but I'm not sure it'd be very helpful. I did it when he was so young, that rationalizing and sentences weren't there yet....he just always did exactly what I told him. He hadn't gotten defiant or independent yet. LOL)
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