Thursday, February 24, 2005

She's not a pooper...but she sure knows how to wheel and deal

Well, the potty training has been going unusaully well for us the last 5 1/2 weeks. Only a handful of accidents really and the Queen is now telling me when she has to go or just going on her own. However, I need to clarify that she only willingly goes pee, pooping...now that's a whole other ballgame. We have to sit on the potty in front of the TV and have some snacks and some milk. And pray that in 30 minutes, there are remnants in the potty to prove that we have been there for the last 1/2 hour. Typically, there is not, and it ends up being an emergent situation in which I am rushing her over to the potty and BAM! there we have it.
Well, today, Herself decides that she needs to negotiate prior to giving us what we want. It has been almost a week now and I will be stopping at the store for some prune juice and some laxitives for this child. Unless she gets her way....either way, there WILL be poop in the potty tonite. My mom has had her sitting on the potty the majority of the day. Caitlyn looks at her and says she just can't do it. Then quizzically looks at Grandma and says, "If I go poop on the potty, will you buy me 'The Princess and the Pauper?'" (new Barbie movie) My mom, thinking that this is ever so cute, agrees. Caitlyn then tells her, "But I am not going to go poop here, I have to do it at home. I will have Mommy call and tell you that I pooped so that you can buy me the movie."
Nix on the scientist idea....I think she may be a lawyer????

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

A Scientist on My Hands

It is amazing to me to watch the vocabulary of a toddler expand....that is I enjoy watching when Caitlyn actually uses a really mature word, not learning the vocabulary of a trucker. I wonder sometimes where she has heard the words that she chooses to use...and use them in the correct context at that!
While we were driving home the other day, she was telling me that she goes on the potty everyday because she is a big girl now and that's what big girls do. I commented that it was true that big girls went on the potty everyday. Her response to me made me laugh outloud...to the point that I think other drivers were looking at me funny! She said, "Mommy, now you say something scientific back."
Are you kidding me??? I can't recall offhand exactly what I said to her in response to that (after I finally stop laughing of course). But it was something along the lines of me loving her everyday. So she tells me, "That's not scientific Mommy, I already know that."
And so it begins I suppose, that this child is now going to correct me everytime I say something. I thought I had until she was at least 15 or so before that started!