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Potty
Minneapolis Morning
We headed down to the farmers market at the Guthrie this morning and then took a stroll across the stone arch bridge.
Lily overlooking the water.
Guthrie Theater
St. Anthony Falls
We even stopped by the Minneapolis Public Library which is the first time I’ve been there since they re-did it. Turns out it has a really nice kids area and a kids bathroom that has a mini toilet and sink which Lily thought was pretty fun.
It was a great morning for being out and about and it was fun to be downtown for a little while as we don’t make it there very often.
Ready or not, it’s potty time.
It's Potty Time
We all knew this day would come, but so soon? It’s time for potty training.
Believe it or not, Lily is ready where as dad’s not quite.
At daycare, Lily has been watching another girl get potty trained so she knows the basics.
When she goes into the bathroom, she knows to pull down her pants and sit on the potty. We’ve even taken her diaper off a few times to see what she’d do.
Sunday she actually went potty! Most of it got in her toilet, but not all. It was the first success. She even grabbed for some toilet paper.
Did I just have a conversation at work about butt paste?
I never thought I’d be sitting at working have a conversation about butt paste with a co-worker, but it happened.
It all started because he said he had some on his shirt and it snowballed from there.
We talked about kinds of butt paste, diaper rash, how horrible it is, crying babies, pooping and all that fun stuff.
It’s amazing how much you learn after a year with a baby. I can now hold conversations on all sorts of baby topics!
We need diaper fueled heat or cars.
As I once again take a garbage bag full of stinky dirty diapers out to the trash, I can’t help but think there has to be something that can be done with all the dirty diapers.
Just think if our cars ran on dirty diapers. We’d be set for life! Or at least a few years.
Or what if my house burned them to create heat. As long as it didn’t smell, that’d be awesome. I’d save so much money on heating bills!
You’d think that someone would come up with a fancy solution to getting rid of them without just tossing them in the trash, but no. Not yet.
Overnight diapers help stop Lily from waking up at night.
Last week I wrote about how Lily was waking up at 4:30am. We thought it might be because her diaper was getting too full so we got ourselves some overnight diapers.
She still wakes with a really full diaper, but it’s not like her pjs are wet. And since we started using them, we’ve only had one night where she woke up 2am and I think that was due to something different.
If you’ve got a baby who’s starting to wake up way too early in the morning, try some overnight diapers and see if they help. They worked wonders for us.
The joy of toilet paper.
Lily has recently found the joy of toilet paper.
It’s soft, it’s within reaching range, easy to grab, and it just keeps coming the more and more we pull.
Needless to say, all toilet paper has been removed from the holder and is up high where little hand’s can’t get.
I sometimes wish that I enjoyed the simple things in life like this!!
It’s hard to update the daddy blog when someone gets up at 4:30am.
You may have noticed that my posts have been few and far between lately. It seems that Lily has gotten into a habit of not wanting to go to bed easily, and then getting up at 4:30 in the morning.
This leaves Dad taking care of Lily instead of perusing the internet and writing blog posts.
I’m hoping this is just a phase and it’ll soon pass like all others.
We’re thinking she’s waking up early because her diaper is over full and she becomes uncomfortable. Then once she’s up, she likes to stay up.
I think our little girl is sick! Or can teething cause diarrhea?
We’ve been fortunate that our little girl has gone 9 months without any real sickness. However, that streak may be coming to an end.
Recently she’s been having diarrhea and many dirty diapers. Yesterday I changed three in the hour she was up in the morning. Usually I change 1 and that’s just the one wet one from overnight.
Then at daycare she had about 5 more. They are diarrhea like and gross and it’s concerning us.
She still eats well, sleeps good, and is pretty happy. She’s a bit more crabby than usual, but not a whole lot.
Pampers Dry Max creating rashes and chemical burns? Not for us.
It seems that there are a lot of rumors going around that the new Pampers Dry Max are causing rashes chemical burns on babies butts.
This news was of particular concern to us as we use the Dry Max diapers and don’t want our baby to have to go though this. In fact, a few weeks ago, her butt would be very red after coming home from daycare. However, at daycare she uses Target diapers, not the Pampers, and after a few hours at home, her butt would clear up.
Safety proofing started, now I’m locked out.
Crap. Now that we’ve started safety proofing the house, there are cupboards I can’t get into and things I can’t get to.
The worst part is some are the cupboards under the bathroom sink where the extra TP is. There’s now way you can get these stupid locks off when you realize you’re out. You have to pre-plan. Grrrr
Others I’m not so concerned about, but will avoid anything that’s in them.
Safety proofing not only keeps the baby out, but I think it’s going to keep me out too!
