Last night Monkey put himself to bed a half hour early.  That, coupled with the fact that he woke up around 10:30 requesting a glass of water, drank it and then asked for more, did not bode well for his efforts to stay dry for 7 consecutive nights but HE DID IT!  He woke . . . → Read More: Countdown to Dryness 2009* – Night 4

We have not been worrying about this, he will do it when he can.  We encourage it verbally and celebrate it when it happens but when it doesn’t, it’s not an issue.  This morning he woke me up around 7:30 and we did our normal weekend morning routine.  I gave him some Cheerios and . . . → Read More: He stayed dry all night!

Monkey is at home with Duhdee today, as I mentioned earlier.  He has been doing a great job with his potty training lately.  He will stay dry for several hours at a time.  We are now just reminding him to go potty, if he has too, every 2 hours, just in case.  Today he’s . . . → Read More: What an odd duck we are raising.

We have poop in the potty at school!!! WOOOOOHHHH!

We have a nasty cold virus complete with fever.  BOOOOOO!

Monkey has been wearing underwear exclusively, except at bedtime, since Wednesday morning and he has had only two accidents; one on Wednesday and one on Thursday, both were at home.  Today he has pooped on the potty TWICE!  I am so excited and he is so proud of himself!

Have I mentioned potty training lately?  I don’t think I have since before Christmas.  The reason?  We’ve been lazy, plain and simple.  It would probably seem logical to most people to spend time focusing on potty training when you had a nice long chunk of school vacation to work with but, well, we’re not . . . → Read More: Umma’s getting BRAVE.

After two consecutive three day work weeks (and the 3rd day of each was cut short by two hours thanks to my employer) we are back to our regularly scheduled programming. *sigh*

I expected tears this morning when we dropped Monkey off but he was fine.  We left him happily playing at the sand table with . . . → Read More: Back to the grind.

Every year we put together tins of goodies for friends and family and today is the big day.  We’ve got two pans of fudge cooling so we’ll take a break to have lunch and then take Monkey out in the snow to burn off some of the sugar he has consumed today.  This afternoon . . . → Read More: It’s goody day!