Nice Try Little Girl

So Mady is potty trained... mostly. She woke up one morning at the beginning of January, spotted some Daisy Duck panties and told me she wanted to wear them that day. I reminded her that would mean going potty on the toilet and being a big girl and she continued to want to wear the panties. She's been trained ever since. It hasn't been without it's accidents, but since that first week, I think there's only been one or two.

That, however, is not the same when it comes to poop. For some reason, it just does not bother her in the least to poop in her panties. Like, even when we realize she's done so, she balks at us taking her to the bathroom to clean her up. We try to keep an eye on her (obviously) and to see when she's making her "poop face," but she's a very quiet pooper. We had one week where she told us that she needed to go, and then she went back to her old ways.

Well, this week she's had a new tactic. Sunday, she walked up to her cousin and said, "Hey S, do you want to go poopy?" Thanks for the dead give away child. She had already gone.

Today, she was watching a little bit of TV and I was working on the computer on school work. All of a sudden she turned to me and said, "No mommy! No! I don't want to go poopy!" My first thought was "Who said anything about poopy?" But it didn't take long to realize that she thought she needed to go. Gotta love a toddlers efforts to avoid doing what they don't want to do.

My other favorite toddlerism from today involved Mady trying to climb over a baby gate. She paused halfway over to shout "Ni hao, cowboy!" which is her version of yee haw. She then proceeded to tell me that she was stuck.

What a day with Logan too. He has a cold (as does Mady) and has been miserable. This is combined with his insistence that he has to learn to walk. Right. Now. He wants someone to be holding his hands and giving him a tour of the house all the time. He has Grandma pegged as the softy when it comes to this and the moment she walks into the house, he starts fussing for her to come get him and walk. He did not want to sit and play at all today. He threw a horrible temper tantrum because of it. I've never seen a baby his age throw such massive tantrums. We'll definitely be working on that!

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.