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So what’s the missing link?!!?

We have been working on Potty Training with Xavier for a little while now… Bare bottom he can go without any accidents for quite a long time but the minute he has underwear on it’s like he forgets completely and has tons of accidents…
Then pull-ups and diapers are of course in he same category…
So what do I do… How do I get him to do the same thing in underwear that he does bare bottomed? If he had his way he would go bare bottomed everywhere… (What is it with kids and running around naked even if their lips are blue because they are freezing?)
So what’s the missing link… how do I start leaving the house without having to put a diaper on him? When does Potty Training actually Click?


longing to go outside on this rainy day…
(bare bottomed of course)

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Feeling Guilty…

I really do love being a SAHM but some days can be really hard…
It is raining and Cold today and the minute that Xavier got up he asked to go in the Pool and was having meltdowns each time I told him that we can’t go because it is raining and cold…
I just saw what the day was going to be like…
Then the phone rang and it was the Daycare saying that they have a place open for today and asked if I wanted it… I jumped on the opportunity and brought him….
See, when I was in Montreal, we saw other kids all the time and did things with other mom’s and kids… we also went to an organization that had the moms talking in one room and the kids in the next in a small daycare… it was only for 2 hours and it was only in the next room and Xavier came to love playing with his friends…
When we moved we lost that and Xavier was really looking for Friends to play with, and I couldn’t find other SAHM’s and didn’t know anyone around and I was very pregnant and tired so I contacted a local daycare and we were put on call until they have a place for him… Now when a kid doesn’t show up they give us the opportunity to bring him (this happens about 3-4 times a month or less)…
Xavier loves it though but I feel guilty of sending him there… I am a SAHM… Is it weird that I am sending my kid off to daycare… It Sept he will have a permanent position… I chose Tuesdays and Thursdays so that the week will have a good flow… I guess my reasoning is that we don’t get to see many kids very often and he needs to learn how to share and how to play nicely (he has trouble with this sometimes), he is just about 3 and not yet at an age that he can go and make friends by himself and his little brother is still too small to be a good playmate…. It also gives me some one on one time with Colin and some time to do things around the house…
I am planning on homeschooling later on but I am also planning sending him to a few activities… So I guess I can see Daycare as that for now… it is an activity that he enjoys and that he thrives in and that he learns from…
I just can’t help feeling guilty though…

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Water Babies, Sunburns, and Mom’s new boyfriend…

On Friday my mom came over and slept here with her new boyfriend… It is a bit weird but I am happy for her and he is a really nice guy. It just feels weird though that my Mom has a boyfriend… Roger (my Step-father whom I loved like a father) died in December and though it has been 6 months it just seems to be very soon…
Like I said though he seems like a great guy.. he is younger then my mom by almost 8 years and is the baby of a family of 13 kids… he is very relaxed, loved kids and is very helpful… I have nothing bad to say… just that it still feels weird…
Anyways… I got the pool prepared over the week last week and Alain (the boyfriend) helped us install the stairs we bought… it was a gorgeous weekend and we all got sunburns… However, with the stairs installed and the pool ready we’ve been living in it every day…
Last year when we bought the house Xavier was just turning two and was a bit afraid of the water and it was really hard to go and have fun… We put him in Swimming lessons over the winter and now we have a little fish on our hands! It’s great! He can swim all by him self (with the aide of a flotation device on his back) and is full of smiles the whole time he is in the pool…
It is Colin’s first summer however and he is just in love with the water… he takes after me and is hot all the time and he just relaxes the minute I bring him in the water… he almost fell asleep in his little boat yesterday…
He are some pics of our water babies…

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