Sunday, May 27, 2012

Wow have we been busy! We've kick started the wedding planning and I started a new job serving at Applebee's. So far everything for us has been challenging but good ;)

We went to the zoo. We had so much fun!
It was cute seeing Lia trying to learn about them.
She kept going...
 "ruff ruff"
like a dog haha we're still working on all those animal noises.

is that not the cutest thing you've ever seen?
We've played with friends and went to pool parties....
enjoying the nice summer weather that seems to come and go as it pleases..





She absolutely loves to swim..
lia will practice in the bathtub!


however.. her new favorite thing is pooping in the tub...
eew. not okay.
so she has gone poopoo in the adult toilet once... horray. not!!
now she wants to go potty in there all the time..
i'm not going to potty train her for at least 1 more month.
then she'll be 18 months and be able to understand her body a little bit better.
i don't want to start off too young, even though sometimes i feel like the sooner the better.
i know that if you force your child to learn on the potty without them being really  interested in the toilet for at least 6 months, the child can and most of the time, will, reject learning it and then it takes years to get them potty trained.
Lia is a smarty pants, she figures things out very quickly.. but she's a stubborn one.
even though i think she's been ready to learn for quite some time,
i'm not going to force her to understand how her body works.. she obviously has to figure that out herself.
i have researched this up and down... it's what i do.. cuz i'm just weird like that, and the last thing i want to do, is set my child back...
a child under 2 years old, whether a boy or girl, lacks the ability to "hold it in" when they need to go to the bathroom.
it's as simple as that.
i know Lia's doctor said not to try sooner than 18 months, so that's when we'll do it!
so for the next month, i'm going to have to teach her everything about it.
why she feels wet, that she does feel wet, that the toilet is where we go potty (although she's known that one for awhile. haha)
i guess, just try to slowly prepare her.
she'll do great though, i'm sure of it.

busy times for our family!! looking forward to it!!



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