Beds and words and milestones

[ailbhe]

Linnea went to bed at 21:30. That's early for us these days. but it went smoothly and stresslessly and well, so perhaps we've broken the pattern now.

She used a new word for Rob today - he called "Linnea!" from another room, and she responded "Wha'?"

He swears this is true. She's a teenager now. Gods.

She's also going to be potty-trained soon. She's not ready for it, of course - she takes her nappy off alright, before squatting over the floor and passing wind or water (so far, thank god, nothing more), then points at the orifice in a surprised fashion and tells me all about it - but she has no interest in the potty.

Nor in the toilet.

No, my baby is ready for that all-important phase: Carpet Training!

So I've got her a potty training book and I've ordered a potty training video and another book from the library and I'm hoping that we can interest her in the potty somehow. She's surely too young for this. No-one else we know is even considering potty training. But no-one else we know can get their nappy off from the inside of tights, dungarees, trousers, or a snap-crotch top and does it frequently before soiling the nappy. Though admittedly the nappy does tend to get caught, as it were, in the crossfire.

You may have overheard me today in John Lewis, saying "Sweetheart, you peed on your feet and that's why you're slipping. Let me [grunt grunt] dry you off. Please."

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[annburlingham.livejournal.com]

Linnea went to bed at 21:30. That's early for us these days. but it went smoothly and stresslessly and well, so perhaps we've broken the pattern now.

Yea! for you! That's about as early as I'm hoping for from Henry, given our patterns. Tonight he put himself down (!) by 9:15, but we have some very stressful, past midnight nights, too. On the other hand, I don't feel the urge to see him waking at 6AM, say.

I was amused and pleased to see that Linnea had colored herself with markers, too, recently. Henry did colors one day, the a black marker he got his hands on a few days later. It's finally all faded and washed away. And I actually found it kind of endearing and attractive - though I hoped they were all non-toxic.markers.