My toddler who is 2 years old has a funny way of playing hide and seek: "Mama, I'm hiding behind the couch." Except for nighttime while she's sleeping, she's potty trained so DH and I got her out of diapers before the baby comes! :::happy dance:::
Yay potty trained! We ended up putting it off too long after moving DD to her big girl bed and now I feel kinda bad that we'll have to wait until like June/July before I'M ready to commit to it. She is totally capable of it now, I'm just too lazy to have the work be worth it with little brother coming in 2ish weeks. Sorry honey.
Ugh potty training. DD is SO strong willed and stubborn. She knows when she has to go, wakes up dry or almost dry (from naps AND often in the morning!), but has NO interest in using the potty. We ask her frequently and it freaks her out or something. I don't get it. She also hates diaper changes. Like, HATES them. So...kid, make a choice. Make it so you don't need to have a diaper changed, or chill the heck out when it needs to be changed! I was so positive we wouldn't have two in diapers at the same time but there is no way that is changing now. We've changed too much on her with the big kid room (and queen sized bed!) and the baby coming to even try it. This summer will be the time, unless by some miracle she wants to sometime before then since I'll be home with her and the baby until August.
I am not looking forward to potty training... DS has shown an interest in the toilet. Each time he sees one, he needs to lift the lid, point at the water, and exclaim "yucky!" I decided early on to teach him that only "yucky" goes in the toilet. I've even let him look in the toilet right before I flush, just to start mentally preparing him. I think the main problem is going to be DH and my ILs. Coordinating potty training between everyone is going to be a pain, since they already don't like to follow my instructions. I feel like DH will just give up too quickly because he'll get overwhelmed between potty training and taking care of LO.
@imrachellea is she afraid of the real potty or a kid's potty? My DD was afraid for a long time but then I realized she hated the actual toilet flushing. She didn't want to use either because it meant that the big toilet would flush. After she realized she could walk away and I would flush it once she was gone, it went SO much more smoothly. She still hates the noise of the toilets in public, and is very uncomfortable with the "magic potty" (those that automatically flush), but thinks the idea of getting to use her foot to flush those is pretty cool. Just an idea?
@briterfly84 She doesn't like the loud sound of the automatic toilets, but I taught her ot cover her ears. So as soon as I finish going, on any toilet, she has her hands over her ears and is grinning at me. We have a toilet seat with a built in toddler seat, she won't sit on it, we also have an Elmo insert, won't use that. We even have a fancy Mickey Mouse toddler potty with a handle shaped like Mickey's hand that flushes and applauds...she LOVES to play with that but behaves in the same way if we try to get her to sit on it. She will have her toys "use the potty", and she'll even say "bye bye Mommy's pee pee" after I go, but she just won't do it herself. This, along with all the sleep trouble I've been talking about, must make my child sound incredibly difficult and head strong...yep lol.
Ugh potty training. DD is SO strong willed and stubborn. She knows when she has to go, wakes up dry or almost dry (from naps AND often in the morning!), but has NO interest in using the potty. We ask her frequently and it freaks her out or something. I don't get it. She also hates diaper changes. Like, HATES them. So...kid, make a choice. Make it so you don't need to have a diaper changed, or chill the heck out when it needs to be changed! I was so positive we wouldn't have two in diapers at the same time but there is no way that is changing now. We've changed too much on her with the big kid room (and queen sized bed!) and the baby coming to even try it. This summer will be the time, unless by some miracle she wants to sometime before then since I'll be home with her and the baby until August.
My DD hates diaper changes as well. We started using pull ups and undies for her. She loves it because it makes her a "big girl". It has also helped with potty training because she doesn't like to pee herself so when she has to go potty she tells us. If she does have an accident, or even if we put her in a diaper and she pees or poops, she will take it off and give it to us. Some days are messy and it sucks cleaning up, but I figured it's worth it because she is getting better at going in the big girl potty.
I feel like an AW twatwaffle for all of my recent emotional/bitchy posts recently. If I could, I would buy everyone donuts and some variation of tacos (we made taco stuffed peppers the other night and they were sooooooo good)...
I feel like an AW twatwaffle for all of my recent emotional/bitchy posts recently. If I could, I would buy everyone donuts and some variation of tacos (we made taco stuffed peppers the other night and they were sooooooo good)...
Tacosssss. I'm meeting a friend for dinner and we couldn't decide what to get but you may have just tipped the scales towards Mexican.
@AmadorRose I'm joining you! So far I've already had Starbucks. Next is chicken strips with fries. DH has promised me actual snuggles (not "I'll sit on the same piece of furniture while exclusively paying attention to my phone") tonight to help alleviate this terrible funk that I'm in. I think I'm also going to ask for pizza for dinner.
I am so bored at work. I'm only here because if I didn't come in, my students would have a substitute this week until my permanent sub can come next week. And since my class is basically 2+ weeks ahead of all the other grade level science classes, I'm basically just trying to keep them "busy"...
...meanwhile, I'm bumping. The board is kinda slow (can't get on FB from work) so I was browsing other boards. I always enjoy laughing at how silly women sound in early pregnancy, so I was lurking the most recent board of newly pregnant ladies. Found a post about a woman who is concerned about her symptoms disappearing (sound familiar?)...at 5 weeks along. Really, sweetie? I just...I mean...
And now I"m off to third tri to hear women asking if we think they lost their mucus plug!
@imrachellea I second what @TKaiser91 said about the pull-ups. It also might be worth a shot to try cloth pull-ups. DD was in cloth and from what daycare said, she trained quicker than just about any kid they had seen. You can get cloth pull-ups pretty cheap, and they hold in liquid way better than just going straight to panties (IE, less wet clothes). It's tougher when she goes #2, but they do make ones that snap on the side. I forget the brand we used that snap, but can look at them when I get home tonight if you want. All that being said...I'm sorry she's being so stubborn....they do grow out of it (although it doesn't seem like it now) and then you have more fun craziness to look forward to. Plus, maybe that "I'm not gonna do it" attitude will come in handy when she hits puberty and all that peer pressure starts coming down on her. Chin up Mama!! And fingers crossed that once LO arrives, she will look at the baby and decide that's who uses diapers and it's time for her to be a big girl and use the potty!
@imrachellea Everyone else always throws me off with their break schedules. It's spring break right now here in Oregon, which means there are children everywhere and the college students are crowding my normal weekend shopping trips (Joann's, Lush, Target, Fred Meyer).
I'm on my lunch break and there's a woman sitting really close to me, talking to some guy on the phone. It's really creepy... From the sounds of it, she's never met the guy in person and keeps telling him how much she's looking forward to finally meeting him and getting to "taste his lips" among other things. I'm not a prude by any means, but maybe that's something you should be texting instead of talking about over the phone at your work cafe... The conversation is border-line phone sex.
@TKaiser91@briterfly84 ...we've tried the Pull-Ups route (which actually works for not "freaking her out", but not to actually teach her to do otherwise), the cloth pull-ups, underwear, and no pants at all. She literally flips out if she goes and can either feel it easily or if she sees it. It's like she's afraid of her potty going. I don't get it. I potty trained triplets (2 girls, 1 boy) that were probably around 3. So they were a little older. And they were so easy! But they also had each other, so its unfair to compare DD to them (in this and other behaviors, because she's a one and only right now, they were 3 the same house, same age). I'm definitely no stranger to the potty training realm, it just seems ten times more difficult with my kid. We decided not to push her though. A co-worker of DHs has two girls, the same age difference that our girls will be, and she told him that when they pushed it with their older daughter as they were prepping for #2, it actually backfired big time and made her fight harder against them. We've just decided she's physically ready, just not mentally there. We know it'll click, she won't go off to kindergarten in diapers at least!
I feel like an AW twatwaffle for all of my recent emotional/bitchy posts recently. If I could, I would buy everyone donuts and some variation of tacos (we made taco stuffed peppers the other night and they were sooooooo good)...
I'm going to Portland this weekend and getting donuts is a requirement. I need some good donuts for once! I think I'm going for Krispy Kreme because Voodoo Donuts is way overrated.
I feel like an AW twatwaffle for all of my recent emotional/bitchy posts recently. If I could, I would buy everyone donuts and some variation of tacos (we made taco stuffed peppers the other night and they were sooooooo good)...
I'm going to Portland this weekend and getting donuts is a requirement. I need some good donuts for once! I think I'm going for Krispy Kreme because Voodoo Donuts is way overrated.
Is it bad that I don't like either one of those places? I've gone to Voodoo maybe two times. Once for my 21st birthday and once for my BFF's birthday. I was seriously drunk by the time we got there and started eating my donut... Which of course was the Cock and Balls, because what's funnier than a drunk woman trying to eat a giant penis shaped donut?
I've also never been a fan of Krispy Kream, which is funny, since there's one really close to my work.
I feel like an AW twatwaffle for all of my recent emotional/bitchy posts recently. If I could, I would buy everyone donuts and some variation of tacos (we made taco stuffed peppers the other night and they were sooooooo good)...
I'm going to Portland this weekend and getting donuts is a requirement. I need some good donuts for once! I think I'm going for Krispy Kreme because Voodoo Donuts is way overrated.
Is it bad that I don't like either one of those places? I've gone to Voodoo maybe two times. Once for my 21st birthday and once for my BFF's birthday. I was seriously drunk by the time we got there and started eating my donut... Which of course was the Cock and Balls, because what's funnier than a drunk woman trying to eat a giant penis shaped donut?
I've also never been a fan of Krispy Kream, which is funny, since there's one really close to my work.
Voodoo has decent dough though, but I never go for the weird donuts with cereal on them or anything, I prefer classic donuts and theirs are ok but not worth a long line wait.
I feel like an AW twatwaffle for all of my recent emotional/bitchy posts recently. If I could, I would buy everyone donuts and some variation of tacos (we made taco stuffed peppers the other night and they were sooooooo good)...
I'm going to Portland this weekend and getting donuts is a requirement. I need some good donuts for once! I think I'm going for Krispy Kreme because Voodoo Donuts is way overrated.
Is it bad that I don't like either one of those places? I've gone to Voodoo maybe two times. Once for my 21st birthday and once for my BFF's birthday. I was seriously drunk by the time we got there and started eating my donut... Which of course was the Cock and Balls, because what's funnier than a drunk woman trying to eat a giant penis shaped donut?
I've also never been a fan of Krispy Kream, which is funny, since there's one really close to my work.
Voodoo has decent dough though, but I never go for the weird donuts with cereal on them or anything, I prefer classic donuts and theirs are ok but not worth a long line wait.
Krispy Kreme is vile. UO maybe!
Eww I really think the dough was a lot of what I didn't like about Voodoo. I went to the one in Eugene a few days ago and got normal chocolate ones but their dough has like this weird, gross sweetness and they use too much frosting too.
@imrachellea yeah I wouldn't push the issue to much. My SIL did that with my nephew and it was awful. She finally gave up one day and it was still another 5 months before he wanted to try again. Which was then successful within a week. It will work out for you guy!
You guys will never know what a good doughnut really tastes like until you come to Ottawa and visit Suzy Q doughnuts. Nothing compares to this fluffy, sweet deliciousness!!!! I was there last Saturday... Depicted here: sugar, carrot cake and raspberry cassis doughnuts. But they also have Froot Loops, dirty chocolate, salted caramel, among other seasonal flavours. OMG now I want some!
You guys will never know what a good doughnut really tastes like until you come to Ottawa and visit Suzy Q doughnuts. Nothing compares to this fluffy, sweet deliciousness!!!! I was there last Saturday... Depicted here: sugar, carrot cake and raspberry cassis doughnuts. But they also have Froot Loops, dirty chocolate, salted caramel, among other seasonal flavours. OMG now I want some!
Boston Creme pie is my fave so we get two because I won't share. Also, Homer strawberry frosted D'Oh-nut, raspberry-filled cronut, and glazed twist. Not pictured, apple fritters and bear claws, which are also bomb from this place!
You guys will never know what a good doughnut really tastes like until you come to Ottawa and visit Suzy Q doughnuts. Nothing compares to this fluffy, sweet deliciousness!!!! I was there last Saturday... Depicted here: sugar, carrot cake and raspberry cassis doughnuts. But they also have Froot Loops, dirty chocolate, salted caramel, among other seasonal flavours. OMG now I want some!
Carrot cake donut?!? Where has this been all my life?
You guys are making me too jealous! I am a week away from donuts! Ah I hate living in a donutless town.
Why does Oregon only have donuts in the middle of Hipster Town and Hippyville?!
Does your city/town have good yelpers? I have found some of the best donuts at some of the most strip-mall, sad-looking storefronts that are hiding deliciousness inside.
You guys are making me too jealous! I am a week away from donuts! Ah I hate living in a donutless town.
Why does Oregon only have donuts in the middle of Hipster Town and Hippyville?!
Does your city/town have good yelpers? I have found some of the best donuts at some of the most strip-mall, sad-looking storefronts that are hiding deliciousness inside.
I never look at Yelp. My dad kind of killed it for me, since he's always checking in and reviewing places. He's one of those people who either reviews a place way too highly or condemns it. There's no middle. If I go to Yelp, it's to find a locations hours or website.
You guys are making me too jealous! I am a week away from donuts! Ah I hate living in a donutless town.
Why does Oregon only have donuts in the middle of Hipster Town and Hippyville?!
Does your city/town have good yelpers? I have found some of the best donuts at some of the most strip-mall, sad-looking storefronts that are hiding deliciousness inside.
I have actively searched for donut places around this town and there is one here but I tried going there once and it was awful! Other than that it's just grocery store options. There is also a donut delivery service in Corvallis (where I go to school) but it's strictly delivery and since I don't live within the town I can't try their donuts. I guess it could be possible there is a bakery I haven't noticed that also sells donuts so it's not labeled a donut shop. Maybe I should look into that.
You guys will never know what a good doughnut really tastes like until you come to Ottawa and visit Suzy Q doughnuts. Nothing compares to this fluffy, sweet deliciousness!!!! I was there last Saturday... Depicted here: sugar, carrot cake and raspberry cassis doughnuts. But they also have Froot Loops, dirty chocolate, salted caramel, among other seasonal flavours. OMG now I want some!
Carrot cake donut?!? Where has this been all my life?
It was DIVINE! And it was warm too - their turnover is so high the doughnuts are always fresh out of the oven! Yum!
@thaisac1 I'm going to be in Quebec City in September. How far is that from you?
OMG Quebec City is amazing and you will love it!!!! Try to stay at the Chateau Frontenac if you can. And dinner at Panache (although not feasible with a newborn I guess...). QC is about 5h by train to Ottawa ... 3h train to Montreal, then ~1h wait in Montreal and 1.5 h train to Ottawa. Or about a 4-4.5h drive. Not super close, although the train trip is pleasant.
You guys will never know what a good doughnut really tastes like until you come to Ottawa and visit Suzy Q doughnuts. Nothing compares to this fluffy, sweet deliciousness!!!! I was there last Saturday... Depicted here: sugar, carrot cake and raspberry cassis doughnuts. But they also have Froot Loops, dirty chocolate, salted caramel, among other seasonal flavours. OMG now I want some!
Idk girl, we have Mojo Donuts here and...
Girl, now you got me competitive! Hahaha here are some more Suzy Q doughnuts for your viewing pleasure! I've never had anything so delicious! Ya'll should come to Ottawa, visit our hunky Prime Minister and eat Suzy Q doughnuts!!!
All I want is a huge bag of ice to chomp down on. I've eaten through all the ice in our freezer. We don't have an ice maker so I now have to wait for the ice cube trays to freeze again. This is the most intense craving I have had all pregnancy!
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...meanwhile, I'm bumping. The board is kinda slow (can't get on FB from work) so I was browsing other boards. I always enjoy laughing at how silly women sound in early pregnancy, so I was lurking the most recent board of newly pregnant ladies. Found a post about a woman who is concerned about her symptoms disappearing (sound familiar?)...at 5 weeks along. Really, sweetie? I just...I mean...
And now I"m off to third tri to hear women asking if we think they lost their mucus plug!
All that being said...I'm sorry she's being so stubborn....they do grow out of it (although it doesn't seem like it now) and then you have more fun craziness to look forward to. Plus, maybe that "I'm not gonna do it" attitude will come in handy when she hits puberty and all that peer pressure starts coming down on her.
Chin up Mama!! And fingers crossed that once LO arrives, she will look at the baby and decide that's who uses diapers and it's time for her to be a big girl and use the potty!
I've also never been a fan of Krispy Kream, which is funny, since there's one really close to my work.
Krispy Kreme is vile. UO maybe!
Right now I'm pretending this good-for-me salmon I'm having for lunch is a donut.....
Boston Creme pie is my fave so we get two because I won't share. Also, Homer strawberry frosted D'Oh-nut, raspberry-filled cronut, and glazed twist. Not pictured, apple fritters and bear claws, which are also bomb from this place!
QC is about 5h by train to Ottawa ... 3h train to Montreal, then ~1h wait in Montreal and 1.5 h train to Ottawa. Or about a 4-4.5h drive. Not super close, although the train trip is pleasant.