Come Back Anytime Karlie!

What a fun and exciting weekend we had. Matthew and I watched our 2.5 year old niece, Karlie for the weekend. Personally, I think she is VERY advanced in her language skills and the girl can talk, and talk a lot, and talk pretty clearly. It’s amazing! We had an interesting time referring the toys between Ryane and Karlie and making sure they were taking their turns. They also had to take turns on Daddy/Uncle Matt’s lap, as that was a favorite place to be as well.

The most excitement out of our weekend comes from Karlie being potty-trained. A couple weeks ago we bought Ryane her new furniture, a potty chair—not because we were going to start the training, but rather get her used to it being in the bathroom and so she could set on it whenever she wanted. Well, this weekend with Karlie having her potty chair, Ryane had to shadow her every time to the bathroom and set on her own. Karlie kept telling me I needed to take off her pants and diaper. Well, Saturday afternoon, I knew Ryane was ready for a diaper change anyhow, so I took off the diaper and left the girls to set on their potties and I went to get a new diaper. As I was gone, I heard that ‘music to my ears’ literally! Ryane had done a #2 in her potty and I couldn’t be prouder! The next visit, she managed to leave some pee pee in the there to make the music go off again. OK, so now I was starting think my daughter was a potty genius of course!! We’ve gone on the potty the last two mornings—let me tell you, she goes A LOT in the mornings. This morning she had a dry diaper, so I was happy about that. I’m just so proud of her. I always said that once we start potty-training, I wasn’t putting diapers on her. Well, after our trip to Wal-Mart last night, we only found size 3T in training pants—ugh! I really don’t Ryane to have to wear training pants at 3!

I’m thinking maybe at 18months, we hit the potty training harder – at home and at day care. We don’t want to push her right now, but I don’t want to lose any ground we’ve gained so far. We are going to be giving her chances to go and encourage it if she wants. As of now, she WANTS to set on the potty rather than put on a diaper. She'll set on there, then stand up and I'll tell her we have to put her diaper on, so she'll scurry back and set back down. Pretty time consuming, but I understand patience is important in this step. It sure makes for a struggle to put a diaper back on---fun of a toddler! I would love it if she was out of diapers by the time our little guy arrives to keep Matthew and I in the diaper changing mode. Right now, it’s looking very do-able.