Some notable Jamie advances

[celticdragonfly]

Two Jamie advances.

Yesterday evening, I was cooking in the kitchen, and looked over into the living room to see a cute little playlet acted out.

Jamie sat down on Maggie's potty, fully clothed. He sat there a moment, then stood up, turned around, and looked down into the (of course empty) pot. He then clapped his hands and made a soft YAY sound. Then he went around behind the potty, knocked the whole thing down, and pulled the pot part out.

He's getting the routine of potty training down even though he's too young for it himself. That's peer pressure at its best.

Also last night after storytime, we just patted the pillow a lot and told him "night-night! bedtime!" and then left him and Maggie in the big bed, rather than putting him in the crib. We did close the door to the nursery as a precaution. I checked on them later, and they were both asleep on the bed, albeit he was sleeping mostly towards the bottom at a weird angle. But that's okay.

He did wake up a bit after midnight and come in to nurse and sleep with me, but it's a start.

Comments

[marymont.livejournal.com]

He's getting the routine of potty training down even though he's too young for it himself.

My mother claims that my sister and I were potty trained shortly after we started to walk, at under a year of age.

Da Boy self-trained on the trip across the country the week before he turned two. (What else would you call two wet diapers in a week, and "producing" when he got to a potty?)

Don't assume that because the average age is increasing all the time, your son, who seems to have the concept down, won't figure out the whole concept earlier than average. He may be one of the early ones who keeps the average, which includes the ones who don't train until three or four, down.

Consistency seems to be the key

[curiousmay9.livejournal.com]

I hit a personal record today of handling the morning critter wrangling AND teen wrangling in 17 minutes. At 6:30 in the morning even.

I've been trying to use the same pattern every morning, and not have to fuss at either the 2-legs or 4-legs. It is more complicated because each of the 4 cats must get custom food (just for now, thank goodness) and the dog must be convinced to come back in from walking the perimeter of the back yard. And of course all 4-legs will eat exactly the wrong food if you give them any opportunity.

Even the groggy teen has gotten used to the fact that she only gets 1 warning (5 minutes till you have to get up!). Also, I will not leave her alone to fall back into the bed, and require her to actually leave the room and enter the bathroom, or it doesn't count as getting up. Anything she says until after she leaves the bathroom is forgiven as a matter of course. :)

No shouting, no fuss, the dog got her treat, and I got my required 4.5 min access to the bath I share with said teen. Which is all I really want, since I grew up with a sister / fashion model, and mother who required 90 min to put on makeup.

I thought I was too brain dead in the morning to handle doing the exact same steps at roughly the same time each day, but, wow, it happened. Maybe I'll survive my desire for 3 kids.

P.S. We will just forget that small incident of locking the food for cat4 in one room and the cat in another last week. Right?