I'm a little tea pot

No accidents today. There have not been any accidents just issues.

It is about 2PM and he announces he has to go wee wee. Again he says" Mommy I do all by myself." I do not trust him. He goes running into the bathroom and I need to turn off the stove.

I walk into the bathroom a few moments later and after he did his business, he takes his sister's teapot that sings and puts it in the urinated water and tries to flush it down the toilet.

The baby is crying. She wants her teapot. Lots of yelling and crying, both by the baby and myself.

I take it out, sterilize it and it is now drying out and hopefully it will work.

I ask him why he did this. His answer, "why?" Again the Abbott and Costello skit begins. I am in a losing battle. I lose the argument with a 3 year old..

To be defeated by a child is depressing and humiliating. If you think you can win, you are wrong and delusional.

Oh yes you call him the streak

August 15, 2011

So the day started out OK. Went to see a good friend of mine and her daughter who is almost 2. She is a little cutie with those big eyes. We were playing and both girls were getting tired and of course my little guy was tired too. What did he do? He hit the other little girl.

He was so upset afterward. He apologized and all the way home was very upset about what he did. He asked if she needed a band aid and if her boo boo was OK. I reassured him she was OK and he should call to apologize again to her.

The baby fell asleep on the way home. I could not get the dude to fall asleep no matter what I did in the car or after we got home.

After we arrived home, I was on the computer for a few moments and the chicky was hanging with me. He announced that he had to go potty. I asked if he had to go wee wee, poopy or both. He said wee wee. I told him I was coming with him. He said no Mommy I do all myself. I thought OK, he goes wee wee by himself all the time.

About 1-2 minutes go by and he comes running out of the bathroom (bottomless) and yells "Mommy I went poopy in the sink." I said "what?" I thought he was kidding. Not a chance.

I walk into the bathroom and he started off going poopy in the toilet, left marks on the seat, hand print on the wall, hand print on the counter top, smeared hand print on the mirror and finished pooping in the sink.

What do I do? Lose my mind. I am yelling and swearing (under my breath). I make him stand there even though he needs to be cleaned. I make him wait until I am done cleaning up his mess. Out comes the bleach, paper towels, glass cleaner and toilet tissue for him after the clean up.

I clean up everything including him and tell him to go in the other room and put on his underpants and shorts while I put the garbage in the garage. 1 minute later I walk into the living room and he had peed on the couch. I am even more upset. Out comes the spot shot and more yelling.

While I am cleaning this up, the baby goes into the kitchen, opens the refrigerator and gets out a water bottle filled with apple juice. She drops it and the bottle breaks. Apple juice on the kitchen floor. Out comes the paper towels, vacuum cleaner and mop.

As I am mopping, the kids have the vacuum cleaner in the hallway cleaning the trim with the hose. Crash, bang, crying. I look up and now there is broken glass from some shelves in the hallway.

Pick up the pieces, vacuum, mop the hardwoods there, re-vacuum. As I am putting away the vacuum, my husband comes home.

I am ready for the bridge at this point. All this damage in 2 hours. Calgon take me away!!!!

He says lets go outside and play. Play? I want a drink!!!

We go outside and the kids want to put their toes in the wading pool. He fills up the pool with water. The baby stands in the pool and squeals in delight. We turn around and the little dude is taking off his shorts and undies.

We ask him what he is doing and try to get his pants back on him. Houdini escapes us and is now running around the backyard bottomless! His father grabs him and tries to put his undies and shorts on. He refuses. We try to reason with him, nothing. He finally agrees to on his pants...LIE!!!! As soon as he gets down, he runs around the backyard again bottomless! Laughing, squealing in delight. We are not delighted.

We are mortified, yet all I can think of is the song...Oh yes they call him the streak.... he puts on his undies at this point and now the little toes are in the pool with his little sister.

The streak lives!!!!!

Cranky

August 5, 2011

We have Cranky!!! 3 days with no accidents of wee wee or poopy! I am so happy.

Not that there will not be any accidents since we will be starting potty training with the baby within the few weeks, but at least there will be a brief break of constant bleaching!

We had to go to 2 stores to get Cranky.

Have have never seen this kids so excited as when we got Cranky.

He wanted new trains to go with Cranky. I said no.

They do not understand when you tell them it is too expensive.

We are not cheap by far, but he has loads of trains and the deal was 3 days without an accident and you get Cranky.

Also, if you have an accident, I take Cranky away.

Some accidents you cannot punish them for others you can.

Next week, we try going through the night without a pull up. He is usually dry in the morning. We will see.

More Skinny Dipping

August 2, 2011

Another skinny dipping incident. My son loves to take off his clothes and run around naked. So does my daughter. He gets naked and wants to go outside to run around in the backyard naked. I tell him no. His father tells him no. Baby is trying to take off her shirt. She wants in on the action too. Bribe him by taking out the indoor sand box....God Bless you moon sand!

Skinny Dipping Anyone?

August 1, 2011

No poop or wee wee accidents so far today.
My husband come home from work and the kids are outside playing with him while I clean up from dinner.

My son announces from the deck that he wants to go into the pool.

We only have a kiddy pool.

He proceeds to take off his pants and underwear outside. I yell to him and tell him to come in and put his swim trunks on.

He come in the put the on and starts taking off his shirt too.

We will not let him out and he starts yelling.

We both start to laugh and my husband says he wants to go skinny dipping. We are both laughing and get both kids to go into the tub.

Baby Poop

July 31, 2011

Went to church. Little guy wanted to go downstairs at church. Chicky and I stayed upstairs, while the guys went downstairs.

I was wondering what happened. Well found out. Little guy took a major dump! Not poop but dump! He said he had to go. Did not quite make it. Luckily only his underpants got dirty.

It is now 5pm. Little guy yells that he has to go. He went running into the bathroom. No such luck. What a mess! Clean him up. My husband cleans up the rest of the mess.

Little guy announces he wants a bath. Of course baby hears this and wants in. They both get in. All of sudden my son yells poopy poopy get me out. We think it was him. No, it was the baby. She went big time poop in the tub. 

Everyone comes out.

My husband puts her on the seat. She goes lots more. 

We are both upset. Yet all I can think of is Caddy Shack. 

We get jammies on both. He starts cleaning the tub and the toys in the tub. Bleach, bleach and more bleach.

I now bring the mats from the tub down to put in the washing machine. Yes you can wash these. Hot water, soap, bleach and we are good to go.

We are both very tired.

Kids fall asleep between 6-7PM.  We are ready for bed.

Going to try potty training both this week. We will see. She is ready and he needs to poop on the toilet!

Too much poop

July 30, 2011

If he goes today without any incident, we plan on getting Cranky.

It is now the afternoon. So far so good.

Well, he did not make it. Not one, not two, but three accidents with poop. Back to square 1.

I HATE POOP!

No Cranky Still

July 29, 2011

Well it is here. Day 3 without any poop incident. 

Could not hold the school thing against him. 

He was playing outside and had to go poopy.

He started to go but finished in the toilet at school.

He went poopy in the toilet!!! Yeah! Yeah Yeah! 

He asked about Cranky. Again I tell him if you can continue this until Daddy comes home, we will go later. “OK Mommy.”

It begins to down pour. He says “Mommy, I don’t think Cranky likes the rain, we might have to wait until tomorrow to get him.” 

He can be so loving.

Daddy gets home. We are playing with the sand. He gets so excited. He poops. He is very sad. No Cranky.

Ups and Downs

July 28, 2011

The day starts off OK. He goes to school and I have lots of errands to make. Baby will not be happy. Thank God for a portable DVD player that I now put in the car.

While running errands, I get a call from my husband. 

He forgot clothes at home for physical therapy. I need to go home, get them, bring them to him and go on my merry way. I am not merry at this point. I have to go way out of my to go back home get his clothes, bring them to work, go pick up the little guy from school and than go back to the other side of the city to finish what I was going to do while he was in school. Now I must take both kids with me.

I pick up the little dude. Only 1 plastic bag and he is wearing the same clothes that I sent him in to school! 

This is a break through. 

We run our errands and since he was so good about everything, I stopped and purchased moon sand for the kids.

He was not good in Michael’s. 

Took him out of the cart and he took off. Could not find him. I was crying and the baby was crying because I was so upset. It took 4 employees and a young girl to help me catch him. I was upset and relieved at the same time. Lots of lectures in the store.

We get home and I spread out a sheet on the kitchen floor. The kids had so much fun. For 3 hours they were quiet and well behaved. I love moon sand!!!!!!

He kept going wee wee in the bathroom. We were both happy! 

When Daddy came home, we had to play more with moon sand.

He was very quiet and so well behaved.

He kept thanking me and gave me a big hug. This is when you melt!

Lights, Camera, Action

July 27, 2011

So far today, he is so excited. 

He went poopy on the toilet!!! 

We even did a yeah poopy dance. Baby loved it. 

He was so excited that he asked me, while getting off the toilet, “where’s the camera?” I said in the kitchen why? His response was “Mommy go get. I need to take picture of me and Thomas (his train) next to poopy to show Daddy.” I am flushing as he says this. I said “that is OK, we can tell Daddy and maybe next time we can take a picture.”  His response “I sad that poopy is gone.” I said “I’m not.”

I remind him of Cranky and tell him if he can keep this up, on Friday afternoon he gets Cranky.

He is very excited.  

Later in the day, he went poopy on the toilet again. I am very excited.

Clean House

July 26, 2011

School day. 

It is too cute picking him up.

The baby struts in and goes right to his room and gives him a big hug!

Love it. Naturally 2 plastic bags for me.

Kids were playing with the neighbor kids.

Of course everyone needs to use our bathroom. 

My neighbor wants to know how I keep my house and bathroom so clean.

She wants to know my secret. My secret? POOP!!!!