We’ve crossed a milestone around here lately. Toby is potty training! He started initiating it several months ago (I think because Elinore always lets him go in to the bathroom with her. Sort of a social thing…). Last week I decided to give it a go. It went okay for the first few days, but I discovered that he has a bladder of steel. He could hold it so long that I wasn’t really able to get him to go on the potty even though he wasn’t having accidents. On Tuesday morning I threw in the towel. I decided to give it a couple more months and put him back in a diaper. Something must have clicked because for the rest of that day he totally took control. Asked to go and went on the potty and stayed dry all day. I guess he just has to be the one calling the shots!!
He heard me use the term “potty training” and now he keeps talking about how he wants to “ride the potty train, choo choo!” So it is going great and he’s wearing undies everyday! Yeah, I get a break from diapers before the next one comes – which will be right around December 14! Just to catch any rumors that might be circulating. I’m almost 9 weeks along and seem to have just entered the yuckiness of the first trimester (which doesn’t leave me much time left, so I’m feeling very grateful). We’re all very excited to be growing our family by one more. We’d appreciate your prayers through the pregnancy and also as I am really hoping to do a VBAC this time in order to avoid another c-section.
On our way to the park the other day Elinore asked me if I knew how to tear down a house really fast. I said, “Wow, Elinore, I don’t think I could do it very fast. Tearing down a house is a lot of work.”
She says, “Well, Mom, first you get a digger. Then the arm of the digger just plunges into the house and tears it apart.” A pause. “Daddy told me that.” I wish you could have heard the emphasis in her voice on the word plunges. She is so funny. A few times lately I’ve looked at her and noticed how quickly she is growing up. She is getting so tall and smart, and she is such a great friend to her brother.
