It's a Boy!

I just realized that it’s been 2 weeks since I posted.  Bad start, but I have the most incredible excuse possible.  It’s a boy!  This little person that I’ve carried for the last 9 months finally made his appearance 16 days ago.  He’s perfect, and beautiful, and more wonderful than I could have hoped for.  I now have the perfect little family, one girl, one boy.  But I have, so far, found one major difference between boys and girls.  I’m sure I’ll find others, but this one’s a biggie. Boys will pee on anyone who leaves themselves vulnerable.  Virtually everyone who has opened this kids diaper has been sprayed, even showered.  My daughter has peed on me maybe a handful of times over her two and a half year life span, and I don’t expect that number to go up any time soon.  In the course of 16 days, my beautiful little boy has easily multiplied that number.

While the boy is peeing on anything that gets in shot range, my beautiful daughter has decided that now is the time to stop doing such things.  With Grandma and Daddy’s help she, at two and a half, is completely potty trained!  Now, I think she’s amazing, because I think that this is pretty early for such an important milestone.  Maybe I’m confused on this point, but regardless of timing, I couldn’t be more proud.  Of course, she still insists on showing us what she has deposited, every time, and we all do the potty dance and chant her name and sing happy songs, but that’s what’s making her successful, and it’s kinda fun, so we’ll keep it up as long as we need to (I mean, really, what 16 year old still cheers when she poo-poo’s in the big girls toilet!).  It’s strange, though, that everything I read about potty training said not to do it during this time, with all the changes and newness, but I think that’s why it worked for us.  She has something special and positive that gets our attention every time, without fail.  If Mommy is feeding the baby, or changing the baby, or even sleeping, she celebrates the victory with the princess, every single time.  It’s a happy time and big sister gets to just be Mommy and Daddy’s little girl again for a little bit. 

It’s been an adventurous couple of weeks and hopefully I’ll have the chance to fill in some gaps in the next little while (I promise to post more often).  Things have slowed down for the time being, but we still have a condo to sell and renovations to start and a move to make and…well, “slow” is maybe not the word.

By the way, if you have some potty training to accomplish in the future, Home Depot (and others) carries this fantastic toilet seat that has a toddler seat built right into it.  Even beyond training it’s awesome to keep little bums from falling into the toilet. The toddler seat is inset into the actual lid, and stays there, via magnet, unless you actually pull it down.  It’s easier and nicer looking than the add-on seats and costs about the same as a regular toilet seat. And you can use it until all the little bums in your house are big enough for a regular seat.  Check your local home improvement store.  We bought ours at Home Depot.