I like your underwear!

As I had mentioned in an earlier post about getting you underwear, I went out with Kendall yesterday and picked up 6 pairs of Cars underwear and a Cars potty training seat from Walmart. Since you were home today I decided to present it to you as a surprise for you to wear. You were so happy and excited. You picked out the red one to wear today. I kept you sans diaper almost the whole day and you only made 1 accident. I can't believe I didn't try this sooner. You loved your underwear so much that you wanted to wear it to bed. Since I'm not confident that you won't wet your bed I tried to put on a diaper. You started whining so I had to put your underwear over your diaper to keep you happy.

Here's a video of you posing with your new undies:



For the bedtime training I'm reading a book that my friend Erica gave me about the 3-day potty training method by a mom of 5. She mentions in her book that I must not give any liquids 2-3 hours prior to bedtime and to make sure you go pee at least twice before bedtime. She says it is important to throw out all the diapers away in her 3-day method and to keep the child from wearing a diaper to bed, but I'm going to take the bedtime potty training a little slow. She says that the first night there will probably be an accident in the morning, but the trick was to explain to the child that wetting the bed was not a good thing. She says that it helps to wake up the child 1 hour before the usual wake-up time to take the child potty and even sleeping beside the child at night. That way when the child stirs at night you can wake up the child to take them potty. This will teach the child that it is ok to wake up to go potty.

As for pooing, you are struggling with that a bit. You tell me every time you have to go pee, but with poo you are a bit embarassed and won't tell me. I have to watch out for signals- excessive farting, a deeply concentrated expression from you that lets me know that something is amiss. The important thing is not to scold your child for having an accident. You should always encourage, but at the same time, sternly explain that peeing/pooing anywhere other than the potty is not good. 

So your impetigo is not as bad as last time. I checked your belly this morning and noticed that it is already starting to scab over. Last time we waited too long and it spread all over your body and you were in a lot of pain. This time around you only whimper when I'm giving you a bath as the water is hitting the open sores. I hope that it heals in time for next Tuesday when you go back to daycare. I have to be extra careful around Kendall. I make sure I wash my hands every time I touch you.