I´ve gotten serious about Joey getting potty trained. Now, I´ve been a big believer in T. Berry Brazelton and Magda Gerber´s advice to just let kids potty train on their own schedule. It sure seems like the easiest way to do it. However, after a very promising few weeks in September, Joey has had NO interest in learning to use the toilet. I was planning on letting him take his sweet time and not force the issue until he turned 3. I remember very well the months and months and months it took Clara to learn how to use the potty. But, in retrospect, I started her too early.
It dawned on me last week or so that Joey is showing every single benchmark for potty training readiness that there could possibly be. And then it dawned on me that this was just silly. I KNOW he can go potty. He did it just fine for a few weeks in the fall. Then he got scared off after having a few accidents. So I backed off. All winter.
But now it´s warm enough to run around naked all the time. So that´s what we´re doing. And it´s working out pretty well.
It´ll be awhile before we venture into the world of underwear again, but . . .you go, Joe!
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Clara´s milestone came on Tuesday when we were eating popscicles in the patio and she complained about her tooth hurting. Turns out, she has her first loose tooth!
I guess she can. *sigh*
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For the last year, Joey has been taking some serious, two-hour-long naps (or longer). This afternoon he woke up after a mere half hour. Instead of getting him out, I let him know that he needed to rest for a full hour (because I needed the full hour) and I would be happy to give him some books to entertain himself with for the remaining half hour. He thought that was swell!
So here´s hoping for another smooth transition from naptime to rest hour. Whew!
However, now he just started playing with the knob to his bedroom door, so I´m guessing that I´m out of peace and quiet pretty soon.
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