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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Zach Used the Potty!

Please humor me, but I am so thrilled right now. After months and months and months of trying to get Zach to use the potty, he finally did today. He is four years old and I was starting to really worry if he would ever want to use the potty. He would usually just ignore me, averting any direct eye contact, if I ever mentioned anything to do with the potty. And when I would try to sit him on the potty, I could tell he didn't like it (it was like he was just humoring me in sitting there). I thought it was hopeless and I was ready to find one of those Potty Boot Camps and pay someone help me out with it.
Then, today while we were shopping and I was looking at something else, he got very interested in the training potties they had. He especially loved one that had musical notes on the box and he knew from that it played music. I asked him if he would do his business (in little kid lingo, of course - I'll spare you all that) in it if I bought it for him. For once, he didn't avoid the subject. He told me that he would. I asked him multiple times and each time he liked the idea. So after calling Brad to make sure he didn't think I was going to just flush out money down the toilet (pun intended) getting a new potty (we already had one), I went ahead and got it.
After Sarah went down for her nap, Zach and I put the new potty together. I then showed him how it works and how to make it play music. He then wanted to try it and then keep trying to go. I finally let him go naked for awhile and told him to get on the potty when he felt the need. I'll be honest, I expected nothing from it based on all my past experience. But all of a sudden (and while I was on the phone with my sister-in-law) I hear the potty making music and there is Zach doing his thing. And he has done it four times since then! I'm running out of prizes in my Potty Prize Basket, although the last time he didn't even want anything from it.
I just had to tell the whole world about it, I guess whether you want to know about it or not. I'm just hoping and praying that this is a trend. Zach has always done stuff after the "normal" age for kids to do things, but once he does do something, he seems to really take off. I'm hoping this will be the same. Hurray for Zach!

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Way Kids Think

We splurged on Saturday and got chinese food. Ummmm. But that's not the story. I forgot and left one of those soy sauce packets that come with it out on the table (yeah, I know, I'm lazy). Zach picks it up yesterday and says to me "Look, it's brown rice ketchup." He calls ham fried rice "brown rice" and of course, it goes on top of that and it comes in a packet like ketchup. I thought that was the funniest thing. Hey, at least my kids entertain me, I guess.