I am so proud of my little girl! Yesterday she was dry all day. I put a nappy on her to go to bed but she pooed in it instantly (I’m sure she saves them for the moment I put a nappy on her to go out/to bed), so I had to change her and realised I had forgotten to buy more nappies. She was going to have to go cold turkey…no more nappies for real. I put some pants on her and fashioned a makeshift waterproof mat out of a folded up sheet, folded again around a large, durable, plastic bag. But you know what? She didn’t wet the bed at all – even when I transferred her to our bed (along with the mat) she stayed dry. So today I decided to not buy any more nappies for real. As in, not even for bed. When we took Ben to school she went to the toilet, then we went shopping and she stayed dry. When we got home she went for a wee again, and then she went again for a poo! She looked so pleased with herself. Yesterday she said ‘clap then!’, when she went to the toilet – she’s so used to the big fuss I make of her when she goes, that she expects – no demands – it now. More embarrassingly she has taken to announcing to the world her toilet successes. I popped into Tesco yesterday and took her to the toilet (in the disabled loos) before going myself. When we came out she threw her arms up in the air and with an ear-splitting grin and said in a very loud voice ‘we did a wee!’. The shame! She did it again at shopping today – I hope this is a phase of the very short kind
Although I can’t wait for her to be completely trained, part of me is already starting to miss having a baby. This by no means implies that I want another (at least not for a looong while yet). It’s just I realised that they aren’t really babies anymore, and I am so used to having a baby that it feels a like time is rushing on too fast sometimes. I have always said since I had Ben, that as a parent you enjoy the stage that your baby is at, whilst missing the stage they were in, but also look forward to the next stage. Ben will be starting full time school in September this year, and once that happens the time will speed on even faster. Life will be governed by term dates, and we all know that for parents it seems like the kids are always off school! So before I know it he will be starting junior, then secondary school, then shock horror – leaving home! And even though I still see Jassy as my baby, she isn’t a baby at all. She’s nearly 2 ½ (her petit frame makes her seem more baby-like). Her language skills are so advanced (as are Ben’s) that I am constantly being kept on my toes…I don’t have babies anymore. I have proper kids. Kids that tell me what they want to be when they are older, what they want for birthdays and Christmas.
On this topic, Ben was telling me yesterday that when he is older he is going to get some money and go shopping and buy all his favourite things. When asked what they are he replied, ‘sausages, milk, crisps and yoghurts and wine.’ ‘Wine?’ I asked, ‘why do you want to buy wine?’. ‘Because when I’m older I can’, he said in a ‘duh’ kind of tone. Silly me.
Speaking of conversations we have, I was reminded of an incident a few weeks ago where Jasmine and Ben where playing up at the dinner table and I said to Jasmine that if she got off her chair again she would go on the naughty step. She got off the chair again and simultaneously I said ‘Naughty Step!’ and Nick said ‘Bed!’ Ben piped up in a clear voice and said to Nick, ‘well you said ‘bed’ and mummy said ‘naughty step’. So is it bed or naughty step?’. Needless to say we were both left rather shamefaced. Oh, the wisdom of youth – sometimes we adults overcomplicate things and it takes a child to come along with simple logic to make us see things more clearly. And my two never forget what you say to them. Don’t promise something you can’t keep because they will most definitely remind you of it. And don’t dare try and fob them off, because they will hold you to it!
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