Whipped.

I've been sick since I got home from Camp Carolina but I haven't really stopped do anything that needs to get done so I haven't gotten any better, in fact, I think I have an actual sinus infection.

And we are going to CT tomorrow.

Liam has shifted his nap time & it's killing me. He used to go down between noon & 12:30 for close to 3 hours. NOW? Now he goes to bed at 2pm and sleeps for maybe 1 1/2 hours tops. This has not been fun with me not being fully charged. I've been losing my patience easily & not wanting to do a whole lot with him because I simply don't have the energy. I just have not been the best or funnest Mom lately.

I quick update though! Liam is still going pee pee on the potty!! I have to ask/take him up as he has stopped telling me he has to go but that's ok with me, I just have to remember before it's too late. Still no poops though. Still ok with me.

Liam has new footie jammies that do NOT have a clasp at the top. One day he woke up naked. The next day he woke up with POOP everywhere and claiming it tasted like CANDY. We have not put him in anymore footie jammies.

One day Dada put him down for a nap with no pants on and a Pull-Up. Want to guess what happened with our Nocturnal Pooper? If you guess a whole load of laundry was done .5967 seconds after he woke up and .231974 seconds after he got a bath you might win some of our special candy. I didn't know Dada hadn't put his pants back on him until like a DAY AGO. Should have mad him do the laundry since he committed two fatal flaws here - no pants and a Pull-Up.

We are still being controlled by train schedules & You Tube. But now he says "box car", "cho-cho" & squeals with delight over tanker cars.

Liam was afraid of the vibrating option on his new (to him) Radio Flyer Retro Rocket Rider.

That's what she said

Day Two: Success!

Day Two has been a success with the PT!

Liam has gone pee pee every time in the potty!!  He is a nocturnal pooper so this will take some tranisitioning but I'm sure we'll get there when we get there. I bought him some Pull Ups and he's not very thrilled about them, had a little arguement about this this afternoon...he wanted to wear his Bill a Bah Huh overnight diapers instead. All the Pull Ups have characters on them that he doesn't know cause I did look for that aspect of it when I was shopping for them this morning...so I cannot really (unless I keep searching around other stores) get him different ones to make him happy cause I already attempted that!  

We've been fighting still about getting re-dressed after going potty & I do want to stress to him that Mama & Dada pull their pants back up after they go potty so I'm not really looking to let him run around naked after going to the bathroom. I'm not into making this a "game" with "rewards" (OOOOH MEAN MOMMY!) or "fun time" and "sparkly soap" this is about going to the bathroom not summer camp, you know? I know, Mean Mommy. Whatever.

I finally got his Pull Up on him though after we went pee pee. I don't know what that was all about though...

I'm hoping we don't screw him over this weekend by traveling. The store (not Target) didn't have travel size pottys, in fact, they only had ones with tons of bells & whistles on them and if you think I'm buying one of those, please read that Mean Mommy paragraph again ;) I do have to stop at CVS tonight so maybe they will have something?

I've been putting him in his over night diapers & his regular diaper during nap time. I don't feel confident that the Pull Ups are intended for long term use (maybe I'm just used to the POS swim diapers?) so I wouldn't want to let him wet himself (or worse) and become self conscious about it, you know? Is that what everyone else does?

We are heading to CT this weekend for Family Picture for Christmas Card event & to celebrate Matias' birthday (it's Tuesday, he's 32) so we won't be back until Tuesday evening. I'm going to try and post though cause I'm attempting to a post a day again this month and I wouldn't want to mess up because of weekend travel :)

How I Spent My Thursday Afternoon

Can you believe it??!?!

It all started this afternoon when he woke up from his nap & Matias took him into the bathroom with him (TMI?) & decided that he wanted to go potty also. So he sat him up there & he went pee pee a little bit. We decided to go get his potty actually out of the box & set it up in his bathroom & introduce him to it. I showed him his potty chart that Auntie gave him with an Elmo activity book & he was really excited about it all.

We left to run some errands & he had some milk while we were out so when we got home, I asked him if he wanted to go pee pee on the potty & we went upstairs WHERE HE PEED ON THE POTTY ALL BY HIMSELF LIKE A BIG BOY!!! And we wiped, and flushed & washed our hands and came downstairs to celebrate with Dada. I told him the next time he has to go pee pee that he has to say "Mama, pee pee!" and he listened and we went on our merry train watching way.

About an hour later, he came over and said "Mama, pee pee!" and we rushed upstairs, pants off, diaper off & PEE PEE ON THE TOILET AGAIN!!!

When he went out with Dada to get dinner, I set up his potty chart on the fridge for him to see when he got home & the look on his face when I read it off to him & showed him all the check-marks he has already received - he was just beaming.

Then right before going to bed, he told me AGAIN that he had to go pee pee!!!

He's doing so well with this SO SO SO unexpectedly. NOT that I'm surprised he's doing so well at it but more unexpected that I'm doing this TODAY. I wasn't planning on potty training today but he wanted to & he's doing it so well that I'm just going with the flow (HA!). I hadn't done any research or reading on it but Nana is helping me along so I'm really just doing this by the seat of my pants (HA!).

Tomorrow, I'm returning our (unopened) carton of diapers, getting a smaller (in case of emergency) pack, some Pull Ups and maybe a portable potty since, of course, we are traveling this weekend. All three times (!!!!) we went pee pee on the potty, his diaper was dry :) I am really looking forward to the Pull Ups for the ease they will give me in getting his pants off quick enough but more importantly back up quick enough! He's, obviously, still at the stage where he's a tad fascinated with what he just did & his hands are quick so I'm struggling with a naked Fellow where as I would much rather be struggling with a Pulled Up Fellow just to help out with accidents & all around general "this is how we go to the bathroom" routine; which includes putting our pants back on. And not trying to grab the toilet paper in the potty.

I cannot believe my little boy is potty training. This is seriously happening really fast. I will really keep on top of it to ensure that we get it done right & done the first go round. Or at least I will try, I know there can be set backs but I feel like going full force on this one since he's picked up on it so quickly & so well.

Did I fail to mention?

That we've spent the last 6 weeks at swimming lessons every Monday & Wednesday nights? And that tonight was our last lesson? I think I might have mentioned it in talking about my schedule sort of passing way but I can only say that, holy Moses, does this kid like water.

His skill set has improved by leaps & bounds. His teacher, Ms. Lori, is fantastic with him & the other kids too. She's very keen on what they want to do and how to get that to mesh with what they have to do. And Liam is loving it. Matias has been coming with us also, I like that he's doing structured lessons with Liam. I think it's good for him to be in the situation also and not just Mama, so that he learns to pay attention & behave in those surroundings for more than just me. And the strange thing is, I think he kind of likes swim lessons better with Dada than me.

And I'm pretty sure that hurts my feelings.

Tonight I had him to myself for class & he was a total Klingy Koala Bear the entire class. Sure he did things he was supposed to but it took some talking into and then some scraping off of my torso to get him into action...

Even Ms. Lori commented on how different he is with Dad. I know she didn't mean it in a bad way but it's weird to have someone else notice it also.

Good for nothing, child of mine. I'll have to sign him up for another session just to show him who's boss around here.

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Slight Annoyances

Not much to say today, still getting over our colds (Liam was saved though), taking it easy & sitting on pins & needles for tomorrow...

But this morning as I was getting ready to leave the house & putting Liam's shoes on, I noticed that one of them was covered in some sort of animal poop all over the bottom. I haven't put these shoes on him in a while so I know it wasn't me...

The thing that really irks me though (and Nana can attest to this, first hand) is that someone else knew it was there & didn't do anything about it. So I had to sit there & scrape it off with a toothpick (all in the treads, of course), being mindful not to soak the entire shoe when I tried to dampen it in order to scrape off the crap easier...

This kind of shit, LITERALLY, really annoy me! How hard is it to clean it off when it happens? It's easier when it's still "new" to begin with. Also? To not say something to someone so at least maybe they can do something about it is just rude. And to say that you didn't notice is poppy-cock. You cannot help but notice. I mean you have to hold the shoes in your hands in order to take them off the child's foot to start with!

So there's my slight annoyance :) Anyone got one of their own?

Too Smart for His Own Good; The Memory & Skills Edition

Liam has a mind like a steel trap; he remembers every one & everything he does with those people.

Just a few quick things about that this gorgeous Sunday afternoon...

• Nana & Grandpa got Liam a Outer Banks sweatshirt while we were at the beach & he wore it at Auntie Leanne's when we were there the week later. I had it on his ottoman in his room to hang up & he saw it and proclaimed "Nana, beach-home". You want to tell me how he knows this? It's a little creepy sometimes!
• We've been watching [and watching...] train videos on YouTube [a lot] lately. He has always known that Mama has to have her hand on the mouse to make things work. But this morning, he took control over the mouse, clicked on the video he wanted playing & then (since I use Mozilla I have to click to initiate Flash) and then he moused over to the Flash arrow and clicked on it to make the video play. HUH??!?! That's just scary to me. I think we might be asking Santa for a Liam Laptop...
• He knows how to take pictures with my phone. The only thing I have to say about this is I don't even know how to do that without having to sit down & think about it.

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