Happy Birthday Xavier!
By George I thinks he’s got it!!
Xavier has been 100% accident free (Toilet trained) while naked for a few weeks now but it wouldn’t work with underwear etc… However, Yesterday at Xavier’s Birthday party we decided to put him in a pull up, so that we wouldn’t have any accidents because he was all nicely dressed, and he didn’t use his pull-up once yesterday!! He pulled them down and went to the potty each time!! Then, This morning we woke up completely dry, took off his diaper and peed in the toilet!! YEAH!! I think he finally understood!
I seriously think that I am no longer buying diapers for him… I think he has really got it!!
Colin’s walking!!!
Colin has been taking a few steps here and there for the last few weeks but hadn’t really started to walk and really didn’t have any confidence to do so… Today however, he got the courage and started to really walk…
Sometimes I forget that he is growing up and is not the same little baby that I brought home almost 10 months ago… (10 months tomorrow!)
He is changing and growing so much that everyday he amazes me!!
Click here to see Colin Walking!
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)
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…