Well, the potty learning has been going really well. Perhaps too well...
Saturday she had a very minor trickle while playing in (ironically) the last box of disposable diapers we ever bought. She likes to play like it's a boat. Anyway, the tiny trickle resulted in her newest trick: the super-melodramatic "Ohhhhhh nooooooooo!!!!!!!"
That's the background. Now, this morning she pooped in her diaper before DH got to her after she woke. She wakes quietly these days, and since she has a loud sound machine to shield her from noises from the dogs and the airplanes, sometimes it takes a few minutes for us to wake and realize she's awake.
Unfortunately, she used that time this morning to unzip her pajamas and remove her diaper. There isn't a diaper in the house she can't remove, from aplix to snaps to side snaps to disposables.
i'm really not sure what to do at this point. It's only a matter of time before she climbs out of the crib (i'm actually really surprised she hasn't yet!!!), but i fear for the trouble she'll get into in a toddler bed. We could put her in a toddler bed and put a portable potty in her room, but i bet she'd try to empty it. (World's biggest piddle pad, perhaps?) Someone suggested toddler-sized sleep sacks, which seems like a pretty good idea since they zip in the back, but i'll have to order them online.
Meanwhile, i decided to try turning her PJs on backwards. That was far more difficult than it sounds! It's hard enough to put them on normally before she takes her diaper off lol. First, she was NOT okay with putting the feet in backwards at first and rotating them. So i had to put the feet on normally (but opposite feet) and twist the PJ's. That could work with a skinny baby maybe. Oy! Anyway, i finally got it situated, and when she tried to do the usual nightly "snuggle" (read: her jumping on the bed while i read 2 books), she couldn't even stand up. So "Llama Llama Red Pajama" was punctuated regularly with "Ohhhhhhh nooooooooo! I STUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!" While i just tried not to laugh too much. Who knew LLRP was a comedy?
OK, loyal readers, any other brilliant ideas?
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What about cutting off the feet to the pajama's so she doesnt feel "stuck", but they can still go on backwards?
ReplyDeleteI thought you were supposed to cut the feet out of the jammies if you were going to put them on backwards. Fortunately we haven't had to try that with my son, but that's what my mom told me. Good luck!
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