Potty Training

That's right...Potty Training. A 16 month old. BOY at that. When he is with me he usually does awesome. He will stay dry for a good part of the day if I am paying 100% attention to him. When I am not....it is more after the fact, like he goes and then signs to me his version of poop which is this...

but instead he does it sideways and pulls on a finger instead of his thumb.

Yup, he doesn't even say potty. We use baby sign. He says with sign: more, all done, drink, poop, and milk. 

He says words like, "lala" for Missy, "tay-tay" for Stacey, "gamma" for grandma, Dada, Mama, Jack, meow, kitty, up, "Bapa" for grandpa, "Boo" when he wants to nurse, and "na na" when he wants to go to sleep. 

My favorite lately has been since he has had diarrhea the last week or whatever ago, he now quickly signs "poop" and then sits on the potty and farts. He is nervous to poop in his diaper! Sometimes. Other times he will fart and then giggle quite hilariously over the fact that he tooted.

He is 100% a boy. He LOVES playing outdoors. He thinks it is funny to throw snowballs, and doesn't mind getting dirty at all. (He likes playing in the dog water dish, especially when we tell him no, I think it is a favorite past time of his).

He does much better not going in his pants when he has a pull up on instead of a diaper, but they are more expensive so I try to use diapers at night...but when he decides all of a sudden he needs to go potty it is quite a hassle to undo the diaper. And say goodbye to footie jammies. Those are ridiculous early in the morning when I need to go, and I know that he will stay dry if I simply can get him on the potty (yup, sometimes he even wakes up dry already!). 

I wasn't prepared for potty training a 16 month old, let alone a boy. They don't warn you that even though the potties have a flap to prevent urine from coming out and over the floor...it still will. In fact, I often times have to use my hand as a flap to keep the pee in, OR if I was surprised in the beginning my hands turned into a cup for pee. Yup, sad truth right there. At least urine is sterile, right?! lol

I feel as if I am missing out on pertinent stories about our potty training adventures so far...but I really need to go to bed it is almost midnight! Can you tell that I have a laptop again? Oh how I missed you!

Update on me real quick: I am FINALLY  turning in LPN board application stuff. We need the pay raise. Desperately...medical bills are coming out of nowhere, but really everywhere. It makes me feel like I am drowning. Also, finances suck. But we are trying to make them better. Long road ahead of us. TTC front? NT/NP is currently our method. I really want to wait to get pregnant until I have short-term disability and will have a paid maternity leave. That would be oh so helpful next time around. I am on CD14 or somewhere around there and have been having 35 day cycles lately. So I would dare say I have almost a week until ovulation or there abouts. 

Bedtime for this lady now though! Hope you all are finding blessings in your day! :-)

Love ya all!