for everything else, there’s pull-ups and clorox wipes
Number of days attempting to potty-train The Pumpkin wearing only panties instead of diapers or training pants: 1.5
Number of panties put in the washing machine after being soiled on day one: 7
Number of panties put in the washing machine after being soiled on morning of day two: 3
Number of times a preoccupied la dra. substituted “diaper” for “diamond” in “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (as in, “like a diaper in the sky”): 1
Number of Clorox wipes used to disinfect chairs, floors, and other surfaces: Too many to count
Number of Elmo-emblazoned size-2T panties bought at Target as an incentive: 3
Number of panties with Dora and Boots purchased for the same reason: 3
Number of times that worked: 0
Number of rubber stamps bought as incentive for “putting poop and pee in the potty”: 3
Number of stamps given out in 1.5 days: 1
Number of training and portable potties and/or potty toppers purchased: 3
Going back to the Pampers Dora the Explorer Training Pants and giving up on the potty-train-your-kid-in-a-weekend thing after only one-and-half days, which we were frantically trying because we were still fantasizing about sending The Pumpkin to the local Montessori preschool which starts at age 2 and has wrap-around daycare but requires students to be potty-trained instead of the other daycare center that we looked at because daddy got a job, but now we don’t have to put so much pressure on ourselves or our one-day-shy-of-being-2-years-old toddlergirl because we found and like an in-home daycare one block from our house run by a woman with 30 years’ early childhood education experience in institutional and home settings: PRICELESS.
Monday, October 30, 2006