The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
Doesn’t that bring back the memories from the intro to the Sports shows that are on the weekends. Well my thrill of victory is nothing like winning and Olympic gold medal and my agony of defeat is nothing like the face plant off the ski jump but it was a day of both good and bad in parenting.
The thrill of victory - Katherine went to the bathroom in her potty THREE TIMES today! One of those times was #2. She is getting good about signing when she has or is about to have a dirty diaper. I am excited that she seems to understand the process and does not mind sitting on her potty. After she goes, she looks at it and says, “yeah”. Then we go to flush it down the toilet and we always say “bye-bye” I know it sounds weird but I have heard horror stories of kids who are not able to flush their waste because they are either scared of the toilet or they feel like they are flushing a part of themselves too. We want to avoid that. I am sure it will be embarassing in a public restroom when Katherine cheers for herself and then waves bye-bye to her poop.
The agony of defeat - we are still having a battle at naptime. Katherine took a nap at Nana’s house on Sunday and a 2 and a half hour nap at Ms. Lori’s on Monday. Yet, she is refusing to nap at home. My new theory is that she is going through that separation anxiety phase and she does not want me to leave her yet it is not as big of a deal with other people. Nana was over so I had her put Katherine down. She cried for a little. Nana did not want Katherine to hate her for making her nap so I went in with her to get Katherine up since she was crying anyway. That as a mistake. Katherine was actually laying down as she cried so she would have gone to sleep. BUT, once she saw me, there was no turning back. I rocked her and nursed her and she was totally asleep. When I put her in the crib, she started screaming. We let her cry for quite some time. Nana left and I went back to get her (at least 30 minutes). I laid down with her on our bed and I fell asleep but she did not! I put her back in her crib (at 3:45 by this point) and after about 30 minutes of crying she finally fell asleep for about 45 minutes. When she woke up she still seemed tired so I had her lay down with me again and she slept another 30 minutes. So, she did finally take a nap, but it took longer to get her to sleep than the amount of time she was asleep.
Hopefully both areas will be improving.
Sorry there are no pictures. Right now we are without a properly working camera. It really stinks.