I feel quiet today. I just don’t have a lot to say, so I’m probably going to ramble a bit. I’m sore, really sore, but I finished day 3. Yoga tomorrow. I’m hungry, like needing to get up at 1 am and eat a bowl of cereal kind of hungry. Between Cooper’s constant nursing in the last week (what’s with the separation anxiety??) and starting P90X, I feel like I’m burning about 1000 calories a day!!
To answer/address comments on this post: We use sign language and Charlotte does pretty well with it. Although she is still impatient and will refuse to make the sign or if we take longer than a second to figure out what she needs she goes into melt down mode. I have absolutely no idea where she might get her impatience from. ::says sarcastically as I look at myself in the mirror:: Cooper either doesn’t get signs or has no use for them. He is incredibly talented at communicating his needs with his little caveman grunts and almost words. He is also really patient until we figure out what he needs. He throws tantrums though if he doesn’t get his way.
Duct tape worked wonders in keeping the diapers on, but a big part of me is saying that it doesn’t feel right to make them keep a diaper on if they no longer want to wear one. I mean isn’t the whole point to get them out of diapers and here I am duct taping them in one? Just seems counter-intuitive. I guess we’ll probably have to go with naked potty training.
We’ve been doing the cups twice a day. Once during afternoon snack and once during dinner. We fill it 1/4 full and do water during snack and milk during dinner. They seem to want to play in the water more than the milk, so maybe when it’s a ‘real’ drink they are less likely to play with it. Now their new thing is they don’t want baby utensils, bowls, or plates. They want the real thing. Would be great except all of our plates/bowls are glass and when they get mad or are done, they throw them off their tray or the table. Of course we do timeout, but with two of them we potentially could end up with broken shards all over and nothing but timeout during the meal. Instead we are working on catching them before they throw it and showing them the correct behavior and then giving them TONS of praise. This seems to work pretty well.
I think the reality is that it always takes me longer to transition to these changes than it takes them. Feels like I’m playing catch up or being caught off guard with the constant changes. It is pretty amazing to watch them change so quickly.
One more day and then I’m off for a week and half. Not doing anything special, just convenient to take time off with the holiday. We still don’t know what we’re doing for Thanksgiving. It’s times like this that I wish we had family or close friends nearby to have a big get together with. I’ll probably cook dinner just for us, although I always feel like it’s a lot of work for just the four of us.
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Just a note on the duct tape, we would use it during nap times, and bedtime, just to prevent wetting the bed. If she took it off during the day we would usually do naked time.
However, them taking their diapers off may not be a sign of them wanting to potty train, or of them not liking the diaper. They might just be exploring their bodies, and like the feeling of being naked. Which makes it hard to identify what to do. Potty training while introducing it is great, it might not be time to go full steam ahead with it, especially since they aren't communicating as well as you'd like. You know them best though.
I know it kind of feels wrong to duct them into their diaper especially when you say it that way :). But it's you taking control of the situation, and if you need them to keep their diaper on at times, then see it as a helper and not a hinderance.
Plus, after like a week of using the duct tape, we didn't need to use it any more. Maile quit taking it off randomly, but would take it off by herself when asked for potty time or bath time. Quite helpful.
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