Potty training a princess update

I am AMAZED at how quickly Caitlin is catching on.  She is doing so well.  I had to update and let you know...she made a bm in the toilet again today...no accidents thank goodness.  That was the worst part of training the two older boys and I know that will be the worst part of training JR.  I am so thankful that its easy for her because that makes it easy for me.

Asthma kiddo take two and a rundown of a busy day!

I started the day off at the allergy doc for JR.  He has been on oral steroids for his asthma three times already this year so it was time for an action plan and something to curb the craziness(craziness referring to a four year old on steroids....talk about climbing the wall).  The visit went well.  She ended up putting him on flovent, a drug that asthma kiddo take one(oldest son) takes during the spring and fall months, so I am well acquainted with it.  The bad thing is that we had his two therapy appointments after that so we were at the hospital from 8 am until 12:30 pm.  By time we got home we were all three frazzled(did I mention I had to take the two year old too because Jim had a job interview) so we went through the drive thru at Burger King and went straight down for a nap.

A note about Burger King...mostly to myself....if you are on a gluten free diet and you decide to eat at burger king............do NOT eat breaded chicken and onion rings just because you are worn out and hungry beyond belief.  I sank into a "gluten" coma...the fog descended, the joints are achy, I bloated up like a balloon..yuck.  Next time I think I'll go to wendy's and have a baked potato!!!  Not worth it.  I'm wondering how long its going to take the "glutenated" feeling to go away???  We shall see.

I got an appointment with the developmental pediatrician!!!  August 9, so the clock is ticking.  That's not as bad as I was thinking it could be.  They said to expect three hours..argh.  Ah well.

On the illness front...I feel like I am at about 80% recovered.  It feels so good not to be coughing all the time. I haven't had an asthma flare up like that in quite awhile.

I hope your day was blessed in some way and I look forward to hopping around and reading everyone's blogs.  This definitely becomes habit forming!

Bobbi

ps.....Caitlin only had 1 accident today and that included all the time at the hospital waiting on JR's appointments!!!  Potty dance anyone??

Potty training a princess--warning...contains "potty talk"

Today I started the down and dirty process of potty training my princess.  We have had the basics down for awhile and just haven't done the "cold turkey, no more diapers" part yet.  So when she woke up this morning I told her that she was too big for her princess pullups and mommy had gotten her some "princess panties".  The first words out of her mouth?  "I don't like a princess panties, I don't like a princess panties.  I want my princess pullup I not want a princess panties"  Sigh.  she definitely has a mind of her own.  She was dry though so I just proceeded to carry her to the bathroom and sit her on the toilet.  Way to go...success on our first try of the day. Fast forward an hour.  We are sitting at the dining room table and she announces that she has to go potty(yay for her), but not in time.....flood on my dining room chair...straight through the cushion.  She was NOT HAPPY.  There were many tears and lots of very fast talking about not liking princess panties.  I dried her tears and we picked out another pair of the dreaded princess panties.  She did so good the rest of the afternoon.  I reminded her about every 45 minutes or so. She went on the potty all day.  I did put her in a pullup for nap and she was wet when she woke up, but right back to the panties we went.

Fast forward again...to after supper...Mommy has to go to the store.  I hurried...I really did. When I got back she had pooed in her underwear.  I was just thrilled to be greeted that way.  Ugh.  I cleaned her up with much talk about how we put the poo in the pot.  She was all tears and "I'm sorries"(that's her big thing....great big crocodile tears and I'm sorry over and over).  I had her all cleaned up and was going to deal with the mess and get more offensive princess panties when she FELL IN THE TOILET.  She never forgets to put her little adapter up, but she sure did this time.  A wail that rose the hairs on my neck came from the bathroom and I raced back just in time to see her pulling herself out of the "poopy water"  Can we say early bathtime? and another round of awful princess panties?  LOL....she's doing really good and I'm proud but the next few days are going to be interesting.