Washing my Fist Pound

Adelaide is pretty obsessive about washing her hands. Today she said, "I'm washing my fingers and my fist pound."

Not Just Saying Numbers

Adelaide has been saying her numbers for awhile, but in the past couple of weeks she has actually started counting things. I thought at first she was just guessing and randomly getting it right because when I'd start counting things with her she would just say her numbers 1-10. The more and more her "guess" started to be accurate, it made me start to wonder. So today at the library she finally gave up her game and let me see her counting things. We always "play puzzles" at the reading center when we go to the library and today we were doing one with farm animals. I asked Adelaide how many horses there were, an answer she's told me before and gotten correct, but today she actually counted, "one, two, three" and stopped. Then she also added, "one white horse." How many chickens? "one, two, three." How many eggs? "one, two, three, four, five." It's like she only wants to let me know she knows something once she's good at it. She's also started identifying some numbers. The other day she said, "look mom, a 0."

Kids are funny though. For neat thing they do, there's always something that makes you wonder why your kid is so slow. Even though Adelaide is averaging only one potty accident a day now-- some days none, some days a couple if we're playing with a bunch of other kids and she's preoccupied, sometimes a dribble before she holds it and makes it to the potty-- but she still calls all that enters the potty "poo poo." It just does not click with her that some things are pee pee and others poo poo. Oh well. It only gets a little confusing when it comes to rewards. We give her a little tiny sticker now for peeing, and a bigger sticker and one M&M if she poops. Maybe that's why it's all poop to her? If she can convince us her prize is much better :). She usually forgets about the prizes anyway nowadays so I don't really think that's it.

One Pack = One Vaccine

I know many of you that read my blog already use Pampers, but I just wanted to let you know about this cool thing Pampers is doing now through the beginning of May. For every package of Pampers you buy (well, ones that are specially marked anyway), one infant or mother will receive a tetanus vaccination. Tetanus doesn't sound that threatening, but I read a stat that it claims a life approximately every four minutes. The risk of tetanus of completely eliminated with the vaccine though which is pretty cool.

Also if you collect points through the Gifts to Grow program, you can redeem your points for a vaccines. 1 point = 1 vaccine. I never feel like the point values equal the products. However, in this case it seems totally worth it. Also they have onesies available for 10 points; if you purchase one of those it also provides a tetanus vaccine.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know about this cool program.

Clean and Dry at the Y

I know. I know. I'm still talking about potty training, but that's a major part of life for us right now. So we've now had two days in a row without any accidents besides bedtime and naptime. That's fine with me. Adelaide is probably a little young to hold it through bedtime, and she does sometimes make it through her naps. Yesterday despite going to the library, going out to eat, and to get ice cream with my dad she did perfectly. Even when she said she had to go in the car and we told her to hold it 'til we got home, we didn't have an accident.

Today however was the bigger test. When we are around, we remind her and are attentive to her potty needs, but today we dumped Adelaide at the YMCA while I went to the fun long OB appt that checks for gestational diabetes. We were gone for 2 hours and when we came to pick her up, she still had on her same dry pull up! They had just switched shifts so I don't know if she held it or if she went to the potty, but still I thought that was pretty impressive. I'm washing the cloth diapers right now one last time and then am going to put most of them into storage until the baby's arrival. I'll still keep a few for nap time and night time but I think we're almost done with the process. Adelaide now has so many stickers on her potty chart we can't count them all.

Another funny thing that happened while we were at the YMCA today-- Adelaide asked to hold my membership ID while I was checking her pull up. As soon as I handed it to her she said, "Sunee Conly." I was shocked and couldn't stop laughing. I don't know how she knows my full name. I asked her what her dad's name was. She said, "Daddy." Not quite the same answer. She is a pretty young reader :).

Go Fly a Kite

Yesterday would have been the perfect day for flying a kite, but today was the day we chose. We couldn't find our old kite from college which we love; it was a fabric one with a 500 ft or so string. I have no idea what happened to that thing. I hate losing things. It's one of my biggest pet peeves. Anyway, luckily we had a sweet Spongebob kite our neighbors gave us when they were clearing out their garage, so off to the park we went.

Adelaide was still more interested in the slides and playscape but had a little fun with the kite. My dad is in town and he and Rocky really played with the kite the most.

Even though today was a crazy day where we weren't at home much Adelaide still only had one accident during church. She stayed dry during her nap, our trip to the park, going out to eat dinner, and going to a couple of stores afterwards. Sweet.

I just need advice on how to deal with these early stages of potty training when out and about. Usually by the time I pull over and get Adelaide in a store to the restroom, it's too late. Should I keep a potty in the car? I'm learning I need to ask her to use the potty before we leave anywhere. Leave it to a first time mom to not think of that important step.

Anyway, here's pictures from today.