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July 16, 2001
Last week was a little hairy for the family, so I missed an entry. I am sorry! I am trying to get better about the weekly entry thing, but it’s really hard.
The biggest news is that Alexandria is making incredible progress on using the potty chair. We moved it into our bedroom, and she had gone potty (pees) in it at least five times for the last three days. She has even pooped in it two days in a row! I could gloat, but it has nothing to do with me. I was gone overnight (for the first time since I found out I was pregnant!) for a little trip to Six Flags (St. Louis) and for dinner out with a couple friends. It was a brilliant idea, but we were all sick. Yes, every single one of us! I was to leave Saturday morning, and did, but was throwing up right up until I got into the car. This was something we had planned for over a month, but it just didn’t seem to work. One of my friends had a massive sinus headache and cold the entire weekend, and the other one thought she had strep. Now I am sick with a cold, and so is Alexandria, though we both had these before the trip.
Anyway, we came home early on account of us feeling so miserable, and Al told me he basically let Alexandria run around naked all weekend (slight exaggeration) and that she was doing well on the potty! I was impressed with the fact that they seemed to do okay without me, though the house did seem to be a little more chaotic than usual. Alexandria is so proud of her use of the potty, also. If she does anything in it, she will bring out the little bowl to show you, with a big grin on her face. Of course, sometimes the stuff comes sloshing out, but how you be mad? We do have her in pull-ups, she just refuses to wear the diapers at all, unless it’s time for bed. I don’t’ know what’s going to happen tomorrow at daycare, I guess I’ll tell them that she can use the potty. I do remind her, though. I’ll ask her if she has to go potty, and if she tries to say potty (and lifts her dress up, ha!) I’ll pull her pull-ups down, and help her keep the dress out of her toilet. And it’s not like she isn’t peeing in the pull-ups at all, because she is. Still, it’s progress, and progress is good!
She has even taken to letting us (in small amounts) hold her hand in the store when we’re shopping, and actually following us around instead of tugging us wherever she wants to go, or worse yet, collapsing on the floor in a tantrum, because she wants to run free. She’s not happy riding in the cart anymore (darn!) but she’s working on hand-holding. I was beginning to be afraid that she would forever have to be restrained in the store. It was getting to be unbearable. I, for one, do not relish carrying around a squirming, wriggling, 24-pound stubborn person while I’m searching for Swiss cheese. So, we’re making progress there, too.
Alexandria manages to continue to have an irrepressible spirit. She is a high-spirited child. She’s very independent (if only she’d start to talk more!), but very dependent, too, if that makes sense. She likes to do things on her own, but she likes to have someone nearly when she is playing. All you have to do is sit there and watch (but you’re not allowed to do anything else, like read), and she is content to play with her toys (she loves her Little People!) for about 30 minutes or so. She can be demanding, frustrating, aggravating, loveable, sweet, exasperating, and indescribably precious all in the space of five minutes! Either way, she’s mine, and I’ll keep her!
Till Next week,
Candace and Alexandria
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