Sharing is caring April 22, 2008

Besides potty training we are trying to teach our little girl the joy of sharing. Her vocabulary is full of “My, my “  like any other kids of her age these day. While we know that this is just  a “phase” of her growing up, we sometimes get restless to wait and see when she will grow out of this. But, today I was very happy to hear that our little bundle of joy spread the joy of sharing with her friends in her day care..She shared her candies with all her  friends in her class. Usually, she used to shove the candies down her mouth as we approached the school but today she actually SHARED it with her friends!! It is indeed an elating feeling to hear about this and credit goes to “daddy D” as well for talking to her about sharing as they drove to the day care. Way to go dad and daughter team!!!

 

Potty Training – III April 21, 2008

We have again started with the potty training of our toddler girl. We started around the same time about a monh ago but discontinued for a while since she would scream and wail everytime we tried to train her. This made me think that she is not ready for potty training yet. So now after almost a month we started the journey again and it’s getting a lot easier this time around.

On weekends, nowadays  she does not wear diapers when she is in the house. We try to take her to the potty in almost every hour and so far we have been successful couple of times. Last weekend, She did a great job hitting the potty as soon as she woke up.We gave her stickers of elmo and cookie monster as rewards and my! her face did lit up with happiness on receiving those stickers.

So, I think the time to bidgood bye to the dipers is not far away and it would be such a big budget booster for us!

Potty Training – II March 19, 2008

Day two was not successful either. Tried with pull ups but that did not work, either. However, it was interesting to find out that she will pee or poop only when she has the diaper on. At one point, she was holding off when she was in the potty and she let it out as soon as she was away from the potty, so here is the next plan of action…

We will take her to the potty in every 10 minutes with her diapers on, just to get her to the habit of going to the potty or asking for it when she gets the urge. We will see if this trick works, hopefully it will

Potty Training – I March 18, 2008

We have just started on the voyage of potty training our little girl from yesterday. I just can’t wait for her to get out of the diapers….thinking about the money we will save. People have given me their own insights and experiences on the potty training, some say that it will be quick for the girls compared to the boys and so on….however I think every child is different.

The training starts fom the time she gets home from the day care until she goes to bed, the plan is we continue to do this for  a week and see where it will lead us.

So here we go the first day of potty training

(march 17, 2007) 5:30 – 6:30 PM: No diapers, we watch TV without any accidents and I tell her to say “I want to go potty” if she feels like. ( I don’t take her to the bathroom every 10 mins)

6:30-7:00 PM: I again ask her if she wants to potty she says “NO” so I let her sit on the couch and play.

7:05 PM – opps! the accident happens ( I am wishing that I had taken her to the bathroom in every 10 minutes) I tell her it’s ok, not to startle her and quickly change her.

7:20 PM – take her to the bath room we sit for almost 10 minutes nothing happens.

7:30 PM – take her again to the bath room we sit for almost 10 minutes nothing happens.

7:40 PM- again another accident on the floor carpet. I change her again.

7:40  – 8:30 PM – We continue our visit to the bathroom in every 10 minutes, nothing happens.

Finally I put diaper on her as she gets ready for the bedtime. After she has diaper, in 10 minutes the diaper is wet and heavy I had to change her to another one before she falls asleep. It looked like she had been holding her urge until she was in her diaper. Now that’s a smart move!

Sunshine in my eyes… February 19, 2008

 Our lil one has been going to the day care since she was 3 months old. The routine was her dad dropping her off and mom picking her up.What follows is her dad taking about the morning time he gets to spend with her.

My daughter’s early morning battle

 

Ever since my daughter turned 3 months old, I had been driving her to the daycare. First few days, the bumpy and swerving road and side-to-side motion really kept her asleep. I had a mirror setup so I could see her face on a rear facing car seat.

 

 I noticed that sun’s early morning rays got to her eyes. Then her mom and I  bought her shades that can be stuck on the side windows. No matter, at what angle I put those things on, the rays always got to her eyes. I even tried the shades on all the windows.  Sometimes these shades will fall off.  This scenario went on for almost a year.

 

After she grew little bigger we got her a front facing car seat.  I realized that the rays were still bothering her. So we got her cool looking shades. Of course, she would keep on taking them off and putting them on through out the ride, completely defeating the purpose of the shades. To her the shades were a cool looking toy. I don’t know, those shades are probably in the house broken into pieces now.

 

I started to notice that she would dodge the rays as soon as they got to her eyes. Then to my surprise, as soon as the rays got to her eyes, she would close them little eyes. I was really taken aback. I said to myself, wow!! She has figured out how to battle the rays from getting into her eyes.  Nowadays, she looks away from the rays and uses the combination of dodging and closing her eyes. I help her too, by putting my arm up to block the rays. I also encourage her to close her eyes.

 

I am sure she has also realized that it’s not something papa is doing. I know for sure that she also knows that as long as we take that particular road to her daycare she is going to have to struggle with this. I am waiting for her to be old enough so she will realize that the sun is always going to be there for the rest of her life and to realize the importance of the sun’s existence in our lives

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