Pixiemom

I put some more photos up at my flickr.  Not in any set yet.

Noelle refused to put a diaper on today.  I put her in underwear for the morning and was planning on changing her into a diaper before we left to go shopping.  Our church is doing Christmas shoeboxes and we went to the Dollar General in another town and met a friend to shop for stuff to put in them.  When I got a diaper out to put on her, she went running the other way, so I had her sit on her potty for a little bit.  She didn’t do anything and said she couldn’t, so I put the training potty in the van and took it with us.  She stayed dry all through shopping and then after we were done, she sat on the potty and wet in it.  She stayed dry until around 4:00pm.  That’s when I checked her and she was damp, though not soaking.  I changed her into a diaper after that because I was leaving with a friend for a girls’ night out and Jeremy was taking care of the kids.  He doesn’t think about asking her if she wants to sit on the potty with all the other things he has to think about while taking care of the kids.  This is only day #2 for her and he isn’t into the mindset of our baby being that old yet.  All in all, I’m proud of how well she’s been doing.

Noelle wore the underwear until 3:15 when I had to get her ready for dance class.  She kept them dry that whole time.  I was very proud of her.  She wet in her potty just before I put the diaper back on her, so I’m sure that if I’d kept her in underwear for dance that she would have stayed dry, but I’m also glad I changed her.  She later had some (hmm, how can I put this nicely) runny #2.  She is all better from last week, but I think this is her body getting rid of the last of that sick stuff.

I think on the days that we’ll be home most of the time that I’ll put her in underwear until I know better how she will do in them.  I know that they are waiting for to arrive in the church nursery in underwear sometime soon.  Two of the people who work there have asked me how she was doing.

Will the underwear stay dry on Noelle or not? Hmmm, time to find out.

update @ 1:30 pm: Still dry, used potty only once with my urging. When she wears a dress and goes without anything, she doesn’t need urging, so she knows when she needs to go.  I think she’s finally understanding the idea that she’s not supposed to get underwear wet. The last few tests didn’t even last two hours without getting wet.

Make sure Noelle has pants up before I answer a knock at the door.  She was sitting on her training potty on Monday when the Sheriff came knocking door to door as a last minute campaigning thing.  He greeted me nicely and introduced himself then glanced behind me and got a bit speechless and left.  I turned around and there was Noelle standing behind me… with her pants around her ankles.