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Friday, February 20, 2009

We bought a potty chair!



So Jael is growing up so fast! She talks all the time! One of the things she has started to do is tell us when she is going to poop. Crazy huh?? She started by coming up to us and saying "poop" after she had finished. Now she comes up to us says "poop" and will go like 5 minutes later. I'm starting to sit her on her potty when she says poop just so she gets the idea. I won't make her stay there until she actually goes but hopefully this way she'll start to understand that if she needs to poop we sit on the potty.

Also, daddy has taught her how to make a basket. He put a small toy hoop on our banister and Jael will walk over to it when asked to make a basket and throw the ball in. She takes great pride her in accomplishment and loves to hear us praise her!

She is also clearly approaching the terrible twos. Or maybe if I start believing it's the terrific twos I'll make it through. She threw her first public tantrum in Walmart yesterday. What is it about Walmart and kids throwing tantrums. I guess I can kind of understand because Walmart makes me want to throw a tantrum! Turns out it's pretty embarrassing when they do that and it's pretty impossible to "reason" with a 14-month-old. She's old enough to throw a tantrum but not old enough to understand a strict "talking to". How convenient!

Despite her little quirks, we are loving her more and more everyday as she develops into her own little person. It's so fun to watch her grow and learn.

3 comments:

  1. Your line about wanting to throw your own tantrums in WalMart is priceless! I feel the same way most of the time:) Brent tells me before we go in "Jen, put on your patient pants" to prepare me for what lies ahead:) You have a smart little girl wanting to try the potty already!

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  2. Sophie started telling us at about that age, too, but I was not up for dealing with accidents and a newborn. We just bought one of those little potty chairs that goes on top of the big potty, but we haven't used it yet. We bought her a step stool to learn washing her hands and we'll use that for the potty too. It would be great if Jael potty trained this early! I sure hope she goes through with it for your sake! Save the $$ on diapers! We have 2 in diapers and it's killing us!!!

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  3. Jen you crack me up!! Put on your patient pants!!

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