Diapers on...Diapers off...AAAHHHH!!!

Well, today has been rough for me. Can't remember if I told you Savannah suddenly wanted to use the toilet for going potty and poop. About a week ago she out of the blue said "Sanna need go potty and poop-poop on toilet". So I set her on the toilet and then the next time on a potty chair and she has pooped in it several times and potty a few times. Then she got scared after she pooped on the floor and so she wasn't as interested in it for a few days. I thought maybe we weren't really going to do this after that, but yesterday she seemed to have a very strong renewal of interest in using the potty chair. Emily is not as purposeful about using the potty chair--she seems interested only when Savannah is using the potty chair (we have two or that would be another fight to deal with).

Today, they both have been taking off their pants and diapers and then go running around the house. Once I get one in a diaper and pants back on, then the other has taken hers off again. I was getting really frustrated with that. Then they kept trying to jump on the couch--pantless and diaperless. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! I think Savannah would actually tell me if she was going to potty, but Emily is not yet ready for that--she just lets it go whenever. So, my stress level was growing by the minute after all that. I called Seth and cried, then I called my mom and cried. No one has any real good answers for this problem, other than gate them in the kitchen. Problem is we only have one gate, and two doorways to the kitchen. Finally I got mad after yet another self-depantsing episode with the girls. I just put then in their cribs naked from the waist down and then left the room. I proceeded to cook their lunch, wondering how big of a mess I was going to have to clean up. 20 minutes later I go to their room and find Emily has pooped and peed in her bed and she seemed a little frightened by it--she was standing on the opposite end of the crib sucking her thumb. At least I can throw the sheets and matress pad in the washer--much easier than trying to keep our carpet clean. I did put new diapers and onesies on both of them. Hopefully they won't try to take off their diapers while wearing the onesies...we'll see.

I'm exhausted after our long morning. Going to take a nap.

Potty Training, Already??

Yesterday Savannah asked to go potty and poop-poop in the toilet. What? Did I hear that right? Yep. She repeatedly asked to go potty in the toilet. So, I took off her diaper, and held her on the toilet seat. She wasn't too happy about it because she was afraid she'd fall in the hole...but she insisted she needed to potty in the toilet. So after 10 minutes I told her it was time to be done. I put her in the bathtub and then she went potty. So later, I brought out 2 potty chairs and we practiced sitting on them. Then Savannah again asked me to help take her pants and diaper off, "Sanna need potty and poop-poop- in potty chair". So, after 10-15 minutes she actually did go potty and poop-poop. Today, she did the same thing twice. I think Savannah is going to potty-train herself.

Emily, on the other hand, is more interested in playing on the potty chair, although she has actually gone potty twice in the potty chair. It's become a family event at least for 3 out of the 4 of us.

This whole situation caught me by surprise. I had not originally planned on attempting any potty training until after the girls' 2nd birthday. They are 22 months old now. Maybe they are ready? I really think Savannah is ready. Not sure how Emily will do once the newness of the potty chair wears off. She likes to sit for 30 seconds, then stand up, turn around look at the potty chair, close the lid, open the lid, sit down, repeat, and then occassionally try to stand/squat on the potty chair. I am so afraid she's going to let loose on the floor while she's doing her little ritual. I guess it's bound to happen...I'm just not ready to tackle this double training thing yet. I haven't even read anything about potty training. Better get to work on my research or I may go crazy! Until then, I'll just keep waiting for Savannah or Emily to ask to use the potty chair...and the rest of the time I'm sticking with diapers for the next few months unless something miraculous happens.

Funny sayings from little girls...

So the other day I went into Emily and Savannah's room to get them out of bed and Emily happily greets me with "Heh-wo Miss Mommy!". So cute! They both have been saying some silly things lately. One of their favorite games right now is to say "Mommy. mommy, mommy, mommy"...and then they want you to say their name back to them the same number of times they said yours (i.e. Emily, Emily, Emily, Emily) and then Savannah will usually join in...and it goes on and on...back and forth, back and forth. Silly girls. Another funny thing lately is their realization that poo-poo should not be eaten. This first started out with Savannah speaking a question to me while changing her diaper..."No eat poo-poo?" To which I replied, "That's right, No eat poo-poo--YUCK! That would make us sick. We eat food. Poo-poo goes in your diaper or in the toilet". And now a few weeks later we still get the same inquiry occassionally, only now they are making a statement about it "No eat poo-poo, yucky". Now they will ask if Seth and I eat poo-poo or if our dog Billy eats poo-poo...which is a tricky question to answer, because sometimes the dog has been known to eat frozen doggy poo-poo (yet another gross story...). So to that I say, "Billy should not eat poo-poo, it will make him sick...yuck". That seems to satisfy them for now. I don't actually think either one of them has ever tried to eat any poop...so I'm not really sure where the whole conversation came from...hopefully they aren't thoughtfully considering trying to eat it sometime--GROSS!