It suddenly got really dark around here, the weather station is showing a huge storm of some sort coming directly toward us in the next half hour. It’s “red” which is apparently the most intense color on the radar. The sirens are going off over and over and over again all over the place.
AND I AM PISSED BECAUSE I’M AFRAID THEY’RE GOING TO WAKE KAELIN UP FROM HER NAP.
We had a few extra minutes this morning (gasp!) and enjoyed hanging out together in the sun room. I live with a couple of very silly people.
Kaelin is doing so well in her “big girl panties.” Today was Day 3 and we’ve only had 2 “accidents” so far. Once yesterday when she and my mom just couldn’t get home from the park fast enough. And once today because… well, she was watching TV and I think she just forgot.
All of a sudden she comes into the room with a look of panic on her face. “I…I… I peed in my panties! We need to dry my panties!” And she’s doing that uncomfortable cowboy waddle that makes it look like she just spent several hours on a horse.
But she’s really starting to tell us when she needs to go, which is nice because I’m easily distracted and therefore not very good at being “on watch” every hour of the day. Granted, when she says “Mama, I have to pee,” we have approximately 3.5 seconds to get her to a potty, but that’s better than making the announcement after the fact.
So today I woke up feeling fatigued and swollen. Even going up the stairs took entirely too much effort.
The common remedies for pregnancy-related fatigue and swelling are exercise (is that Alanis Morissett-style irony or what?) and drinking more water - so I took Kaelin on a stroller ride around the neighborhood this morning and have been trying to drink more water.
Which means that now I’m even more tired and have to pee all the time.
Sigh.
I did have a nice lunch with my mom today though. I haven’t been to La Madeline’s in ages.
And I’m so proud of Kaelin. Today is her first day of wearing “big girl panties” - no diaper. We’ve been attempting potty training recently and although she’s willing and capable of peeing in the potty, we couldn’t seem to get her to understand that the goal was also NOT to pee in her diaper anymore.
So today I decided to experiment and put some real “panties” on her. I told her that these were NOT a diaper and that she couldn’t pee in them. Still, I expected to spend most of the day doing laundry. But so far, she hasn’t had a single accident - even during the outing to La Madeline’s and Baby’s R Us. Of course, she’s been asleep for the last 3 hours (in a diaper), so I guess I can’t count that time… but I’m really very proud of her successful day in the big girl undies.
And now I’ve probably just jinxed the whole experiment by prematurely talking about the success ... but we’ll see.