**June 07 Toddlers**

Thats good that Jake is happy with morgan. Must make life a bit easier.

We aren't doing anything about toilet training. Daniel needs more language skills first I think. We aren't even going to consider it until summer and then see where hes at.

hope spencer has settled into sleeping a big bed and yay for his last tooth coming through. After all the pain Ella has a while ago when her molars where moving around, we have had nothing since so am still waiting for them to come through (although I am hoping they are a while off, as I am feeling so sick at the moment the last thing I can deal with is a teething toddler).

 

she is having her first sleepover at Mum & Dads tonight. Have just spoken to her on the phone to say good night (I love how I can have converasations with her on the phone). Hopefully it goes well, as I have a feeling we will be needing her to stay there a bit more often now, as I am feeling sooooooo tired and sick at the moment, I just need a bit of a break (and I feel a bit bad for her having to be around sick me all the time).

 

On a good note, had an early scan on Fri and saw the baby's heartbeat and everything looks good

Hi All, small note to share the news that Kyan Dean arrived on Tuesday 18 August.

Paige is very cute with him (so far) wanting to give kisses and cuddles. On arriving home she wanted to show him all her toys... very cute.

Hope all well with you all.

Shellis

congrat's Shellis and I agree cute name.

The MS is slowly getting better Rachel- the last couple of days I have only thrown up once, so fx that means the medication is finally working. MS and looking after toddlers sux (which I am sure most of you guys know by now).

 

thats great about Caprece and TT we have still got Ella just doing a wee before and after her bath, but she is so ready to be TT during the day (tells me now when she is doing a wee in her nappy) I just need to get the energy to do it- maybe in a couple of weeks.

yeah we are planning on finding out. It's nice through, last time I was determined I was going to have a girl- this time around I can honestly say that I don't care whether it's a boy or girl, it's quite a nice feeling

Yeah he is fine in his bed, well it's his cot with the sides off cos it's one of those ones that turns into a junior bed, he didn't like the actual single bed so I just took it out again. Was quite high and big compared to the cot so maybe that's why he didn't like it.

I think we are still some way off toilet training, he tells me ocassionally when he has been or is going but I think we need to work on the language a bit more first cos at the moment everything is "poos", so am trying to explain the difference between poos and wees and also that nappies are called nappies and not called poos..lol

I need to start TT soon too ... I tried when he was about 20mths cos he had shown all the signs for a while and would tell me before he poo'd etc .... and we got every poo on the potty when at home for 2 weeks, but they don't help them in the under 2s rm at his daycare unless they are fully TT and ask to go, and he was still in naps when we were out, so go a bit confused and he had a panic about it most of the time (I had to hold him while doing it), plus he didn't get wees in time, so we stopped. He was 2 the week I was due, so was going to try again before then, but being heavily pg it didn't appeal .... now that its getting a bit warmer, and hes been telling me when he wees for a month or so now, I'd better get on with it. Hes only just moving to the over 2s next week too ... they didn't have any room for him earlier. So hopefully seeing all the other kids using the toilets will help, but there was no point starting til he moves.

He is starting to get very annoying with the 20 questions ---- whats this? whats that noise? what happened to that cars wheel? wheres sienna/nanny/daddy? what happened to sams (cat) fluff? where the bubbles gone? what you doing mummy? etc etc .... and over and over and over ..... Its great that we can have conversations and he can tell you exactly what he thinks / likes / wants .... but man, I wish he'd just stop talking for 5mins some days!!!

Potty training made easy, fast and simple by Johanne Cesar. It's actually an ebook rather than printed.

Daniel knows how to say wees, poos and potty and knows what they all are. In the bath when he gets put in he will go wees (kinda gross I know) and will stand in the water laughing at himself stopping and starting. He also either does poos when he gets put down for a nap or goes and hides behind the dining room table.

We went and got him some undies yesterday. Hes ok about sitting on the potty but wanna get him used to sitting on the toilet over the next couple of weeks (with pants on so just sitting there to begin with) so that hes confident when we start.

Edited by kebakat

You could try the book I mentioned. They talk about running away to do poos in it. My head is pounding (sinus infection brewing) so I can't be bothered reading to find it but I'm sure she says that when they need to go (Daniel goes and hides at roughly the same time each day) that when you put them on the potty you say something like: potty time! You can play with your cars once you do poos in the potty. Reward first and then what you want them to do.

As for getting him to like sitting on it again what about doing what we are going to do and just doing prepotty training. We are going to put him on the potty a few times a day, and just distract him, he's not going to be required to do anything except sit on it just for like a minute. We will read a book or just talk to him so hes happy just sitting on it and there is no aversion to it. First we will do it with pants on. Then once he thinks its really cool to go sit on the potty we will try pants off, nappy on. Thats our plan for 2 weeks