Jun 22 2010
Mommy Log: Day 3 (8 hits!!! 4 misses)
The proud girl
Lowlight: 3 misses in a row this morning
Highlight: Annada’s first poop!
Strange-light: Our kid officially goes to the bathroom in the pantry
Today was a great day. The morning was rough – it seems like Annada has to relearn how to go potty each morning. But she is getting faster at figuring it out.
The funny story for today is that Annada now likes to go potty in our pantry. This morning she was still trying to hide in the pantry to pee in her panties. So we put her potty in there again. This time she sat on it, said bye bye and shut the door. A minute later she opened the door and she had peed!
I think she likes it because everything is her size – she can take down her panties, sit down, shut the door and then open it when she is done. She is so serious about saying goodbye before shutting the door – its hysterical.
The next highlight was in the afternoon. She was eating lunch when she got that “look.” I pulled her out of her high chair and led her to the pantry (we’ve decided to embrace the strangeness of turning our pantry into a bathroom). She shut the door and was in there a loonnggg time. Finally she opened the door, ran off the potty and gave Marc a big kiss.
Then she ran to Aunt Erica and gave her a kiss. When Annada does something wrong, she often starts passing out kisses. I think it is because I always give her a kiss at the end of a time out. A few months ago Annada started trying to give me a kiss as she went to time out – probably thinking the kiss could get her out of trouble.
I looked at the potty and noticed Annada had pooped. “Annada! You pooped in the potty!!” I yelled.
Annada looked scared. “Oops. Oops,” she said. “Uh, oh.”
Needless to say, we spent the next 10 minutes shouting and praising and trying to convince Annada she had done something wonderful. I think the jelly beans finally convinced her she wasn’t getting in trouble. As for me – I’m still excited. Is this seriously just day 3? This is so much better than I was bracing for.