Potty training

Oh the joys of potty training! As I said in my last post, I wasn't quite ready to start it having a newborn at home right now but our fiercely independent child was and so she has, so I am just along for the ride it seems. We're at a point now where if it's quiet in the house, Kaylin is probably in the bathroom on her potty ,or unrolling a roll of toilet paper, or flushing goodness knows what down the toilet, or playing with her toothbrush in the sink which I am afraid will join the ranks of what gets flushed down the toilet very soon.

Her ritual at this point is to pee pee in the potty (just a couple of trickles), then empty her potty into the big potty, wipe, flush. Then go back to her potty for a couple more trickles, empty into the big potty, wipe, flush. And repeat at least 2 more times! The waste of water and the inefficiency of her routine is causing me to pull my hair out so we are now trying to work on staying on the potty until you think you are done, and then do NOT flush the potty unless Mommy says it is OK. I think it's going to take a lot of practice! She also decided the other day after her nap that she needed to get the poopy out of her pants so she came in, stripped down, and pulled off her poopy diaper inadvertently smearing some down her legs and goodness knows where else! Then as I came running in screaming "Kaylin put the diaper down" she threw the whole thing into the big potty which created quite a splash b/c it was a pretty full diaper. Thankfully I caught her before she tried to flush the whole thing down the toilet!! I'm sure one of my next posts will be how we've had to call a plumber out.....

It is just amazing how grown up she is becoming. Very, very sadly the nap has gone by the wayside. Once, maybe twice a week we can get her to take a good one. Otherwise it has become a time for her to "play" in her room which consists of taking every single toy, book, instrument, stuffed animal and see if she can cover every inch of floor space with them! She amazed me on Sunday at a birthday party where she literally bounced in the bouncy house for 3 hours. Other parents were even commenting on what a "bouncing maniac" she was and I thought for sure after 3 straight hours of bouncing - literally only stopping to hit the pinata a couple of times and to eat some cake -she would take a great nap when we got home. To no avail of course!! So after an hour in her room, she came out and proceeded to fall down and run into things all over the house because I think she truly was so tired. Then she was ready to eat by 5:15 which is about an hour earlier than normal so I made her dinner, sat her down, and after a couple of bites she literally started head bobbing at the table and basically fell asleep sitting up. I came over to unstrap her and she said "hold me" and immediately fell fast asleep in my arms for the next 30 minutes. She just can't seem to stop herself and just take a break unless her body just totally gives out on her. You would NEVER know this child has any cardiac issue! In fact, I'm wondering what in the world happened during the last cath and does she still have some of those drugs in her system because she is just out of control and active as ever!!

OK - gotta run and get Brayden. He doesn't seem to like to sleep past 5am these days. Ugh!