Potty Training: Week 1

After a couple of months from her failed potty training (due to childcare adjustment and well, refused to sit on her potty), I decided to try it again. It's working! It has been exactly a week and wow, I must say that there's a tremendous improvement! Read my previous post on my first attempt here

Day 1 & 2 was when I still needed to clean and mop the floor, but day 3 onwards... NONE AT ALL! 

I started on a weekend. I let her wear big tops or dresses and underwear. Sometimes, no underwear at all. But then I realized that she has to practice taking off and putting on underwear whenever passing urine/motion. Wherever she is in the house, I will always put her potty nearby so in case she pees, I won't have to run her all the way to the bathroom. The key point for now is making her pee on her potty. I watch the time. Every 15 minutes, I ask her if she wants to make weewee or poopoo and make her sit on her potty. I don't force, but convince her to do it. I entertain her or give her something to do/eat so she will sit still. When she finally did it, her potty played music and i jumped and danced, gave her a high five AND a kiss AND a hug (basically make it a big deal) plus gave her favorite green tea (hitting 2 birds in 1 stone-- reward and to make her pee more) 

"Uhh. Mom. Privacy please."

When I knew that she can hold her pee longer, I tried to extend the time interval to 30 minutes, and there she got it. Monday was the first day she didn't wear a diaper in school after nap time all the way going home, that's from 3pm onwards. I picked her up at her great grandma's house at 8pm (late, I know) she peed one time on the floor before I arrived. From their house, we took a bus going home, and keep telling her "Simone when we get home you weewee okay?" Then when we got home (whew!) I immediately put her down and helped her remove her undies and there just as I sat her on her potty she peed a lot!! Thank God!!!!! She happily took the bowl, brought it to the bathroom and poured everything inside the toilet bowl and passed the bowl back for me to wash. I flushed the toilet then she said "bye!" and "no more!". And that became the routine.

Last night, my hubby and I were surprised that there's pee in her potty. Nobody put her there. When hubby checked her undies, it was dry... Ha! So it meant she did take off her undies and peed by herself! I also caught her going down from the bed and sat on her potty, got up, and checked her pee:) "Baby, you're already wearing a diaper because it is bedtime! But very good still!" 

And so today was the best part yet: hubby told me that when Simone woke up, she told him that she wants to poopoo. Hubby helped her take off her undies and she sat on her potty and pooped! Thank.God!!!!! 

Some tips for mommies:

1. Make sure she is comfortable in the potty ( she had 2 previous potties that were too big for her hence, she would slip inside haha)

2. Make her drink lots of liquids (it's okay to give her favorite drinks so she can pee)

3. Prepare yourself: a ready absorbent hard foam mop and disinfectant, a lot of undies, and trips to the bathroom to wash. ;)

4. Consistency.  Watch the clock and the look on her face when she suddenly stops and give you that weird look. Quickly plant her on the potty. It's very obvious, you can't miss that!:) (I'm always beside her)

5. Patience. A lot. It's not going to be easy. And if within a week you don't see an improvement, try it again at another time.  But try to let her be diaper-less for at least a couple of hours a day and always remind her and say words pee and poopoo (whatever you want to call it) and potty! I have downloaded potty videos for Simone to watch (she likes Potty Time by Sesame Street)  or you can buy books about potty training.

6. Show her how it's done. I slowly introduced it by showing her how i pee/poop (oh, she is so interested btw!) I bring her inside the bathroom so she could see. :)

Happy potty training! Think positive<3 

Happy mama, 

S

Betrayed

We just got home and I was about to finish cooking dinner when I remembered I forgot to buy coffee. I told MIL that I just needed to buy something at the store downstairs and look after Simone first. She saw me leaving and quickly clung to my legs and cried and won't let go. I promise it's a super quick stop like 5 minutes and bringing her along will become 15-20 because she will walk(ex: look for cats, stop and say hi, stare for a while and say bye, explore etc) and will refuse to go home haha. I distracted her and managed to escape. YAY! When I reached home, she saw me entering the house, and realized that I had gone out without her, she almost ran to me and clung to my legs again and wailed! Following that she made a dramatic scene, down on her knees and hands on the floor sobbing hard, what meant like, "Mama, Why did you leave without me??" (or "Why did you trick me?" LOL) I think she felt really betrayed! I swear it was sooo cute, but I felt super guilty too. She can't get over it! She eventually stopped crying,  had her dinner (baked salmon with olive oil, lemon and rosemary with spinach and brown rice) and freshly squeezed OJ (her current favorite.)  She was in a good mood throughout.

Tomorrow hubby will be going for reservist for 2 weeks. UGH. Visited him at his work place and brought him his favorite Popeye's chicken because he has been super busy these past few days. Super busy meaning working from 10:30am-10:15pm, then the next day he has to go training at 8am-5pm, then go to work till 10:15 Theeeen the next day he has to wake up at 5:30am and go to reservist training. Cray.

Knocked-out Simone

I didn't bring her pram today so she walked pretty long. She loves escalators especially travelators, she's a pro now! And I'm the exhausted mama, carried her when she gets tired or sleeping, with the diaper bag and groceries. I should really put on her harness, I went crazy chasing after her! One funny part was when she already waved goodbye to her dad, held my hand and walked, suddenly the song "Ice, ice baby" intro came in and she heard it, she stopped immediately and danced! wahahha. Well she got it from her momma!

It's gonna be 2 long weeks. sucks.

waiting for 5:30.

xx,

shiela

Easter Fun at Cluny Court

I have been looking for cute Easter activities for Simone and I'm so happy we went to Cluny Court! I wish I live in that area. I LOVE the community there. Everyone is just so positively happy, smiling and sharing.

I love the concept.

Simone is obsessed balloons and will want to grab any balloon she sees, so balloon sculpting was our first stop. There was a long queue inside the store Small (which I absolutely love! the kids shoes are simple but amaze) There was also a bunny girl walking around, distributing easter egg chocolates. I let her eat a few to kill time:)

Balloon Sculpting at Small store

Happy kiddo

Next stop we saw this

Simone sat on the chair by herself! She saw the colorful sticker tattoos spread out on the table. She was kind of scared when the lady sticks the butterfly tatt on her arm. Too bad Simone can't see it enough haha.

Wow just a few steps I saw some popcorn!!! I asked how much, and boy it's free yay for free kettle corn!

Someone's clearly hungry!

Played with some coloring materials...and started to throw them on the floor.... NEXT!

My Tatt you likey??

Cute kiddos

She went straight in the store The Children's Showcase because there's a huge table full of papers, cups and stickers. We designed a cup. Please don't judge haha Simone kept grabbing the glue and scissors I can't concentrate enough! I'm going back there to buy those super cute plates and utensils for Simone!!!!!!

It's soo F-U-N

wahaha don't judge!

Grabbing everything she sees *sighs*

Caricature! Yes we had this. Unfortunately we look kinda weird in the drawing (Aren't they supposed to? haha)

Our first caricature!

These boys are so cute!

Face Painting! Simone doesn't like her face being touched:( yup so we had it on her leg.. Beautiful butterflies with hearts.

Face painting galore!

At The Children's Showcase store.

Simone kept looking at her butterflies.

I wished she had a bunny face paint.. next time!

Have I not mentioned that everything was free? But the best part is, no one was aggressive just because it's free. Everyone was warm and cheerful. I love this place! Surely going back soon to try Relish resto and buy plates and shoes for Simone!!!

You may check more of their shops at https://www.facebook.com/ClunyCourt

xx,

Shiela