I went shopping for Emily's new wardrobe yesterday. She has plenty of clothes that still fit, she's still in 24 months and some 18 months, but I needed to replace all of her onsies, since onsie and potty trained kid do not mix. As it is she always forgets to pull down her pants before sitting on the potty, I wouldn't want to give her more to do.
I was kind of amazed at how many onsies there still are for 24 month clothes. Back when she was younger I figured she would grow out of onsies long before I was ready for her to stop wearing them. I am assuming there aren't any at 2T though, or at least maybe nothing more than just undershirts and stuff. So I made a pretty good haul, I got her lots of cute t shirts and summer dresses. Found her a nice pair of tennis shoes too.
Last summer she had a pair of Kean's and they were the best shoes she ever had. The lasted her all summer, they went with everything and they were durable. But I got them at a garage sale for like $1, I cannot bring myself to pay full price for shoes she'll grow out of in a couple months, so forget about paying for brand new Kean's. But the shoes I found her yesterday are a close second. I don't think there are any special brand, but they have a lot of mesh on them so they're good for summer, and they're pretty slim. I feel like too many toddler tennis shoes have really thick soles and just a lot of unnecessary bulk, and when those little feet get running, the bulky shoes tend to make them trip. But these are light weight and not bulky, I love them and they fit her great with room to grow.
Tomorrow I'll have to go through her closet and pack away all of her onsies/winter clothes/outgrown clothes to make room for her new ones. I also need to find someplace to put her underwear. My husband didn't know where I keep them, and ended up putting a diaper cover on her the other day, thinking it was underwear, lol. I had to laugh, but really they are basically underwear. They got the job done.
When we bought our house it came with a big boulder half sunken in the corner of our front yard. I guess it is supposed to be decorative, but we've always hated it and intended to rip it out eventually. But today I was unloading groceries when a woman walked by, pulling her granddaughter in a wagon. I said hello to them, and then the little girl pointed to the rock. She looked to be maybe 6 months younger than Em. Her grandma said yep, there's your rock. Then she said to me, she likes to sit on it. Awwww, that makes my heart turn to mush. So now we absolutely cannot tear it out since it's this little girl's favorite. I told my husband and he agrees, we can't tear it out now.
So weird, but this little girl made me want Emmy so much right then. She was still at Grammy's house because I had to commute to work today so she stayed over there. It's so nice to have those breaks, but by the end of the evening I am always anxious to go get my girl back, but seeing this adorable little girl and how she had claimed our rock, just made me want my baby even more.
I so lucked out with her potty training. She is so good, today is 8 days straight with no accidents. If she tells you she has to go, it's not like you have to run faster than the speed of light to get her there in time. We can easily just stop what we're doing and head for the potty, she is never in a rush or close to having an accident for waiting so long. She will often go when prompted like before a walk or before nap, but most of the time now she tells you when she has to go. But I figure this was owed to me. After how long it took her to learn to walk, I needed something like easy potty training as a reward for all my patience. But still, I am so lucky to have a kid who learned so easily.
So it's 11pm and I am headed to bed. I barely got any sleep last night, and I worked most of the day so I am beat. I was supposed to go Tuesday but I was still too sick so I went today. So glad I did, I felt much better today. I cannot imagine I would have gotten much of anything done given how awful I felt a few days ago.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Potty training day 20, sickness and tantrums
So we're all sick here, and I feel like I am dying. It sucks to be sick, and it sucks when your kid is sick, but it sucks even worse when you and your kid are sick at the same time.
I took Em to the doctor on Wednesday because she was still breaking out in hives as of the night before, and a few days before that she had started coughing and sneezing. I didn't know if they were related, but she looked like she felt awful, and she had that droopy, I feel terribly look in her eyes again. It's amazing how healthy she was for the first two years, and now she's sick left and right.
She was not happy at the doctor, she cried getting weighed, getting measured, having her heart and lungs listened to, and especially having her ears checked. So also had a low grade fever. The doctor said her hives and other symptoms could have been something she came into contact with outside, and not necessarily something she ate. So she said I should give her children's Claritin once a day and she also prescribed an antibiotic. I wasn't real sure why she gave her that, she mentioned something about possibly developing an ear infection, but I don't think she said she has one. She was having a hard time looking in her ears because she was squirming so much, so maybe she figured with the fever she'd just prescribe that on the safe side. I should have asked, but I just wanted out of there. Emily was so upset.
She normally likes taking medicine, she'll even ask for it when she doesn't need it so I give her some grape juice in her syringe but she did not like the amoxicillin. I think because of how thick it is. So she choked it down that night, but the next morning she wouldn't take it so we put it in a cup and called it princess juice. Down the hatch it went! Since then we've been mixing it in applesauce or oatmeal. I think she is getting better, her sneezing and running nose is practically gone, she is still coughing but hopefully that is coming to an end, and she hasn't broken out in hives since.
But she is cranky as all hell. Any other time she has been sick she is kind of lethargic and just cuddles. But this time she falls to pieces over every little thing. Lately she has been saying words that I cannot understand, so like this morning she kept pointing to a picture of herself and kept saying what sounded like flies. I thought ok maybe she is saying flowers so I said yeah you have flowers on your shirt, and she would get frustrated and keep saying it over and over. With me being sick too, I am tired and low on patience so I was like ahhhh, what do you want me to do about it???? What about the flies or flowers?
She keeps doing stuff that she knows she is not supposed to do, and when I tell her to stop she gets mad and goes around hitting things or clearing off tables, throwing stuff. Ugh, I hope this is just a result of being sick, or if it is a phase, I hope it ends soon. I mean she has tantrums, she's two, of course she does. But these last few days have been hell on earth. Thursday night my chest started hurting and I was coughing. Yesterday I felt so so but today I have been so tired, my jaw aches, my chest hurts and the coughing is worse, my ears are plugged and I am sneezing and have a runny nose.
So I don't know if we both have allergies, or if she has a cold and I caught it too. Usually allergies don't bother me for more than a day or two, and I am not real itchy, and the jaw ache isn't really consistent with allergies, so I am thinking she has a cold, I caught it, but she also has allergies which was the hives. We're supposed to go out to dinner tomorrow night to celebrate our niece's college graduation. I think we'll still go, I need to get out of the house. I don't think I have left the house since Wednesday and today is Saturday. I also need to get out and buy Em a new nose frida. We had one but all I can seem to find is the tube. She loves to get into everything and then she scatters pieces of things all over. So even if I found the other parts I don't think I would find them all, so I'll just go get her a new one. As soon as she was down for a nap today I crawled into bed too and went to sleep, and then my husband got her when she woke up and let me sleep another hour and a half. I so needed that.
On the bright side, potty training is going great. Just last week I was very frustrated, I felt like since putting clothes on her, all the progress I thought we had made in block one went out the window. I felt like the days she didn't have an accident were just luck. But then, just like the book said it would, something clicked and now she is doing great. A few days ago I was getting her ready for bed and she already had her bedtime diaper on. She started whining and tugging at it and saying pee pee. So I took her diaper off, she ran to the potty and pooped! She uses pee pee and poop interchangeably, but I was still surprised when she pooped instead of peed.
It's the second time she's pooped in the potty, but I think the first time was just because it was a time when my MIL prompted her to go, she sat down to pee and ended up pooping while she was there. But for her to recognize that she had to poop, and to not take advantage of pooping in the diaper that was already on so she could go poop in the potty is huge I think.
Today was day 3 in a row with no accidents (and all this past week the accidents have mostly been because I waited too long to take her to the potty and she absolutely couldn't hold it anymore). Today with us all being sick, I just couldn't adult today, and I put her in a diaper. I don't recommend this, it was probably a very bad idea and I am just lucky it didn't confuse the hell out of her. So when my husband got her up from nap he just followed my lead and put a clean diaper back on her. This was at 3pm, and at 7 she came to me and said pee pee so I took her to the potty, we took off her (dry) diaper and she peed in the potty. I was so proud (and thankful that my laziness didn't screw things up). That's not to say she'll never have another accident, but I think for all intents and purposes, I can say she is fully (daytime) trained!
Well I'm off to take a hot shower and go to bed, and hopefully I feel better in the morning, and I am so thankful I don't have any work to do this weekend. My new job is going great, I love it. I've mostly been working at night once Em goes to bed, and most nights I have to force myself to stop working after a while. It's really a dream come true job, and even better that it allows me to work some, and still be home with my daughter.
I took Em to the doctor on Wednesday because she was still breaking out in hives as of the night before, and a few days before that she had started coughing and sneezing. I didn't know if they were related, but she looked like she felt awful, and she had that droopy, I feel terribly look in her eyes again. It's amazing how healthy she was for the first two years, and now she's sick left and right.
She was not happy at the doctor, she cried getting weighed, getting measured, having her heart and lungs listened to, and especially having her ears checked. So also had a low grade fever. The doctor said her hives and other symptoms could have been something she came into contact with outside, and not necessarily something she ate. So she said I should give her children's Claritin once a day and she also prescribed an antibiotic. I wasn't real sure why she gave her that, she mentioned something about possibly developing an ear infection, but I don't think she said she has one. She was having a hard time looking in her ears because she was squirming so much, so maybe she figured with the fever she'd just prescribe that on the safe side. I should have asked, but I just wanted out of there. Emily was so upset.
She normally likes taking medicine, she'll even ask for it when she doesn't need it so I give her some grape juice in her syringe but she did not like the amoxicillin. I think because of how thick it is. So she choked it down that night, but the next morning she wouldn't take it so we put it in a cup and called it princess juice. Down the hatch it went! Since then we've been mixing it in applesauce or oatmeal. I think she is getting better, her sneezing and running nose is practically gone, she is still coughing but hopefully that is coming to an end, and she hasn't broken out in hives since.
But she is cranky as all hell. Any other time she has been sick she is kind of lethargic and just cuddles. But this time she falls to pieces over every little thing. Lately she has been saying words that I cannot understand, so like this morning she kept pointing to a picture of herself and kept saying what sounded like flies. I thought ok maybe she is saying flowers so I said yeah you have flowers on your shirt, and she would get frustrated and keep saying it over and over. With me being sick too, I am tired and low on patience so I was like ahhhh, what do you want me to do about it???? What about the flies or flowers?
She keeps doing stuff that she knows she is not supposed to do, and when I tell her to stop she gets mad and goes around hitting things or clearing off tables, throwing stuff. Ugh, I hope this is just a result of being sick, or if it is a phase, I hope it ends soon. I mean she has tantrums, she's two, of course she does. But these last few days have been hell on earth. Thursday night my chest started hurting and I was coughing. Yesterday I felt so so but today I have been so tired, my jaw aches, my chest hurts and the coughing is worse, my ears are plugged and I am sneezing and have a runny nose.
So I don't know if we both have allergies, or if she has a cold and I caught it too. Usually allergies don't bother me for more than a day or two, and I am not real itchy, and the jaw ache isn't really consistent with allergies, so I am thinking she has a cold, I caught it, but she also has allergies which was the hives. We're supposed to go out to dinner tomorrow night to celebrate our niece's college graduation. I think we'll still go, I need to get out of the house. I don't think I have left the house since Wednesday and today is Saturday. I also need to get out and buy Em a new nose frida. We had one but all I can seem to find is the tube. She loves to get into everything and then she scatters pieces of things all over. So even if I found the other parts I don't think I would find them all, so I'll just go get her a new one. As soon as she was down for a nap today I crawled into bed too and went to sleep, and then my husband got her when she woke up and let me sleep another hour and a half. I so needed that.
On the bright side, potty training is going great. Just last week I was very frustrated, I felt like since putting clothes on her, all the progress I thought we had made in block one went out the window. I felt like the days she didn't have an accident were just luck. But then, just like the book said it would, something clicked and now she is doing great. A few days ago I was getting her ready for bed and she already had her bedtime diaper on. She started whining and tugging at it and saying pee pee. So I took her diaper off, she ran to the potty and pooped! She uses pee pee and poop interchangeably, but I was still surprised when she pooped instead of peed.
It's the second time she's pooped in the potty, but I think the first time was just because it was a time when my MIL prompted her to go, she sat down to pee and ended up pooping while she was there. But for her to recognize that she had to poop, and to not take advantage of pooping in the diaper that was already on so she could go poop in the potty is huge I think.
Today was day 3 in a row with no accidents (and all this past week the accidents have mostly been because I waited too long to take her to the potty and she absolutely couldn't hold it anymore). Today with us all being sick, I just couldn't adult today, and I put her in a diaper. I don't recommend this, it was probably a very bad idea and I am just lucky it didn't confuse the hell out of her. So when my husband got her up from nap he just followed my lead and put a clean diaper back on her. This was at 3pm, and at 7 she came to me and said pee pee so I took her to the potty, we took off her (dry) diaper and she peed in the potty. I was so proud (and thankful that my laziness didn't screw things up). That's not to say she'll never have another accident, but I think for all intents and purposes, I can say she is fully (daytime) trained!
Well I'm off to take a hot shower and go to bed, and hopefully I feel better in the morning, and I am so thankful I don't have any work to do this weekend. My new job is going great, I love it. I've mostly been working at night once Em goes to bed, and most nights I have to force myself to stop working after a while. It's really a dream come true job, and even better that it allows me to work some, and still be home with my daughter.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Mother's Day and allergies
I had a nice Mothers' Day. I didn't get to sleep in since we had brunch reservations with family, and my husband tries to keep to his midnights schedule even on weekends, so he went to bed around 6am probably and got up at 9:30, so I had to get up and get Em ready while he slept as long as possible.
So from him and Em I got two new pandora charms for my bracelet. One is a heart that says mom with a pink stone in the middle, the other is two little kids holding a sign that says happy mothers' day. I love them. I don't wear my bracelet often because bracelets bug me. They pinch me and clang on the table when you put your arm down, but I love collecting charms for significant things in my life. It will make a nice keepsake to pass on to Em someday.
He also got me a card from himself and one from the kids, and had Emily "sign" for both herself and Kayla. So sweet. I'm going to need a second keepsake box to keep all these cards in. I used to only keep really special cards, but I am not sure I can part with any of them from Em, especially now that she can "sign" them.
So we had brunch with my inlaws. It was nice, good food. It was pricey though. I am fine with paying more than usual for us, I mean it was Mothers' Day, the busiest restaurant day of the year. But I was kind of pissed we had to pay the same amount for Emily as for us. I mean, she probably ate like a dollar's worth of food. They could at least charge half for kids 10 and under or something. Such a rip off and they use holidays like these to soak people for extra money. But what were we going to do, not go out with our whole family? I also have a hard time paying that much for breakfast food. I mean, have I ever eaten a bad breakfast at a restaurant? Eggs, sausage, muffins, bacon....it's all kind of hard to screw up and pretty basic. An egg at this place was the same as an egg at Bob Evan's. I don't think we'll be partaking next year...or maybe we'll plan the meal and go to BE's. But anyway, I did have a nice time.
After that we went home for a bit, Emily got a dreaded car nap on the way home so she wouldn't go down for a nap once we were home. When I first put her down she was crying so hard she was coughing and gasping for air, so I got her up and I said she could snuggle with me in the recliner and watch Frozen. Well she didn't want to stay on my lap and she was crumbling over the smallest things, so I knew she needed sleep. I put her down again...she still didn't sleep, but at least this time she rested (mostly) quietly and just played and read her books, and I got a quick snooze in the recliner.
So then we headed over to my dad's to celebrate with them. Oh, I had gotten my MIL a pandora charm in the shape of a heart with white crystals on one side, and a tiny picture of her and Emily on the other. They are hugging and laughing in the pic, it's such a precious picture so I was excited to find that I could get this charm made. For my stepmom I got her a giftcard to Charming Charlie's because she has never been and has been wanting to go, so now she can go spend that, and I also made her a little picture I found on pinterest. It says Grammy's grand-babe-bees and you make little bees out of the kids' footprints.
I was going to have Em actually step in yellow paint to make hers. But I of course had to use the print of Kayla's foot from when she was born, so I figured for consistency I would just use Emily's footprint from birth too. Plus, Em's current footprint would be way too big next to Kayla's. Kayla's is teeny tiny, but at least Em's birth footprint is a little closer in size. I was going to print them out and paint them, but I wasn't sure if I had all the right colored paint, so I just uploaded the footprint and painted them using the Paint program. It actually came out really cute, and since I am not too steady painting with a mouse, it actually looks like kids did the painting themselves. It turned out really cute. So I framed that for her, she really loved it.
Em got her first (and I am sure not last) skinned knees on Sunday. She wore a dress, and was running into Baba's house and fell and skinned them up pretty good. She didn't really cry, but later when she saw them as I was cleaning them and bandaging them she got upset and said uh oh boo boos. So cute! She's like me. When I was like 5 I fell off my bike and split my chin open. I was fine until my dad said it was bleeding a lot and he would have to take me to the hospital for stitches, then I started bawling.
So potty training is going ok I guess. We're on day 15. As long as I keep on top of things and make sure she tries to go, she'll go in the potty but on days that I accidentally wait too long, she pees her pants. Which is to be expected I assume. She has yet to have an accident out in public, which I think is pretty damn good. So I think she only goes in her pants when she absolutely has to. On Mothers' day I caved and put a pull up on her. At least with pants, they can help soak up the pee and if there isn't a ton, the pants absorb almost all of it. But with a dress on, I figured an accident would just gush everywhere, and I didn't want to deal with that. But I still treated her as if she didn't have it on and took her to the potty.
She wouldn't pee at the restaurant (the huge commercial toilets freak her out a bit) but I am pretty sure she peed in the potty when we got home. But then for the rest of the day she didn't pee in the potty at my dad's, and her pull up was dry, but I know she must have had to go, she was drinking quite a bit. She probably held it until I put her diaper on for bed time. So today she had an accident because I thought we could have lunch before I took her to the potty again. That was a mistake; pants full of pee and poop. But this afternoon I tried to get her to go before we left the house but she didn't, we made it through grocery shopping, and then she peed in the potty when we got home. So I call that a success that she had go to but didn't until we got home.
I bought her some underwear the other day, so she's been wearing that. It almost seems like she has had less accidents with the underwear, than with going commando. Maybe just a coincidence, but I certainly haven't seen an increase in accidents since the underwear. She really likes her Frozen underwear and she is getting really good at putting them on herself. So we'll keep on trucking, she'll completely get it someday.
So she was at my MILs all day Wednesday, and then Thursday morning when she was sitting on the potty I noticed her one thigh was really red, but I brushed it off, assuming it was just from laying on something in bed. But a few hours later when I changed her pants it was still all red, and warm to the touch. Then I noticed other spots...some were just small spots, some were large massive areas. I freaked out, not knowing what they were. I called her doctor and they said they would send her a message. But then I remembered when she was first born I had pinned an article about kid rashes, so I looked that up. From the description and everything it sounded like hives.
I text my MIL asking if she had noticed redness the day before. She said no, but come to think of it she said she had been scratching her ankle quite a bit. So it must have started sometime Wednesday. She cannot think of any new food (besides rye bread, but what would be in rye bread that she hasn't had in other breads?) or laundry detergent. When I finally spoke to the doctor she agreed that it sounded like hives and told me to do 5ml of benedryl three times a day for two days and then as needed. I had already looked it up online and had given her 3ml, so I gave her 2 more and within 20 minutes they looked a lot better. Her doc said it could have been something she ate any time in the last 72 hours.
The ONLY thing I can think of is she had a few bites of my granola bar which had almonds in it. But I am certain she has had bites of that kind before and was fine. I asked a friend whose son has a tree nut allergy and she said food allergies are weird like that, and she could have had them before and been fine, but now the allergy has developed. So until I can get her tested, I have been trying to avoid tree nuts. My God, there are almonds in like everything! My dad called today and mentioned that his rice that we had at dinner last Friday had almond slivers in it (which I know, I eat that rice all the time and completely forgot about the almonds) and he had given her some. And that night we had cake and ice cream for my birthday....I was a few bites in (as was Emily) when I asked what kind it was and my dad said Rocky Road. I asked what the rocks were, so he looked it up....almonds! Gah!
The hives have come and gone since then but never as severe as the first day I noticed, so I would think if she has a tree nut allergy, she would have broken out really bad all over again after the rice and ice cream on Friday. I don't know. I guess I'll just take her in to be tested so we can either confirm or rule it out. Then I was thinking, my inlaws just got new furniture. I know stuff like that often has fumes, and chemicals on them at first. I can remember as a kid I spent a few days sneezing after we got new carpet. So maybe some chemical on the furniture irritated her. She's been over there at least three times since they got it though, but who knows, maybe she didn't crawl around on it much those other days.
Well, she goes back to Nana's this week so I'll just have her be very conscious of what she gives her and see if she breaks out again. She could have just come into contact with something that bothered her and it was a one time thing. I hope so, because I'd really hate for her to have to go through life with a food allergy. I couldn't even give her some of my chocolate covered pretzels today because they are made on a line that could also process food with tree nuts in them. And yesterday she kept begging me for a bite of the candy bar Ryan gave me with my gift, but it too had almonds in it. I never realized how almonds are taking over the culinary world!
So from him and Em I got two new pandora charms for my bracelet. One is a heart that says mom with a pink stone in the middle, the other is two little kids holding a sign that says happy mothers' day. I love them. I don't wear my bracelet often because bracelets bug me. They pinch me and clang on the table when you put your arm down, but I love collecting charms for significant things in my life. It will make a nice keepsake to pass on to Em someday.
He also got me a card from himself and one from the kids, and had Emily "sign" for both herself and Kayla. So sweet. I'm going to need a second keepsake box to keep all these cards in. I used to only keep really special cards, but I am not sure I can part with any of them from Em, especially now that she can "sign" them.
So we had brunch with my inlaws. It was nice, good food. It was pricey though. I am fine with paying more than usual for us, I mean it was Mothers' Day, the busiest restaurant day of the year. But I was kind of pissed we had to pay the same amount for Emily as for us. I mean, she probably ate like a dollar's worth of food. They could at least charge half for kids 10 and under or something. Such a rip off and they use holidays like these to soak people for extra money. But what were we going to do, not go out with our whole family? I also have a hard time paying that much for breakfast food. I mean, have I ever eaten a bad breakfast at a restaurant? Eggs, sausage, muffins, bacon....it's all kind of hard to screw up and pretty basic. An egg at this place was the same as an egg at Bob Evan's. I don't think we'll be partaking next year...or maybe we'll plan the meal and go to BE's. But anyway, I did have a nice time.
After that we went home for a bit, Emily got a dreaded car nap on the way home so she wouldn't go down for a nap once we were home. When I first put her down she was crying so hard she was coughing and gasping for air, so I got her up and I said she could snuggle with me in the recliner and watch Frozen. Well she didn't want to stay on my lap and she was crumbling over the smallest things, so I knew she needed sleep. I put her down again...she still didn't sleep, but at least this time she rested (mostly) quietly and just played and read her books, and I got a quick snooze in the recliner.
So then we headed over to my dad's to celebrate with them. Oh, I had gotten my MIL a pandora charm in the shape of a heart with white crystals on one side, and a tiny picture of her and Emily on the other. They are hugging and laughing in the pic, it's such a precious picture so I was excited to find that I could get this charm made. For my stepmom I got her a giftcard to Charming Charlie's because she has never been and has been wanting to go, so now she can go spend that, and I also made her a little picture I found on pinterest. It says Grammy's grand-babe-bees and you make little bees out of the kids' footprints.
I was going to have Em actually step in yellow paint to make hers. But I of course had to use the print of Kayla's foot from when she was born, so I figured for consistency I would just use Emily's footprint from birth too. Plus, Em's current footprint would be way too big next to Kayla's. Kayla's is teeny tiny, but at least Em's birth footprint is a little closer in size. I was going to print them out and paint them, but I wasn't sure if I had all the right colored paint, so I just uploaded the footprint and painted them using the Paint program. It actually came out really cute, and since I am not too steady painting with a mouse, it actually looks like kids did the painting themselves. It turned out really cute. So I framed that for her, she really loved it.
Em got her first (and I am sure not last) skinned knees on Sunday. She wore a dress, and was running into Baba's house and fell and skinned them up pretty good. She didn't really cry, but later when she saw them as I was cleaning them and bandaging them she got upset and said uh oh boo boos. So cute! She's like me. When I was like 5 I fell off my bike and split my chin open. I was fine until my dad said it was bleeding a lot and he would have to take me to the hospital for stitches, then I started bawling.
So potty training is going ok I guess. We're on day 15. As long as I keep on top of things and make sure she tries to go, she'll go in the potty but on days that I accidentally wait too long, she pees her pants. Which is to be expected I assume. She has yet to have an accident out in public, which I think is pretty damn good. So I think she only goes in her pants when she absolutely has to. On Mothers' day I caved and put a pull up on her. At least with pants, they can help soak up the pee and if there isn't a ton, the pants absorb almost all of it. But with a dress on, I figured an accident would just gush everywhere, and I didn't want to deal with that. But I still treated her as if she didn't have it on and took her to the potty.
She wouldn't pee at the restaurant (the huge commercial toilets freak her out a bit) but I am pretty sure she peed in the potty when we got home. But then for the rest of the day she didn't pee in the potty at my dad's, and her pull up was dry, but I know she must have had to go, she was drinking quite a bit. She probably held it until I put her diaper on for bed time. So today she had an accident because I thought we could have lunch before I took her to the potty again. That was a mistake; pants full of pee and poop. But this afternoon I tried to get her to go before we left the house but she didn't, we made it through grocery shopping, and then she peed in the potty when we got home. So I call that a success that she had go to but didn't until we got home.
I bought her some underwear the other day, so she's been wearing that. It almost seems like she has had less accidents with the underwear, than with going commando. Maybe just a coincidence, but I certainly haven't seen an increase in accidents since the underwear. She really likes her Frozen underwear and she is getting really good at putting them on herself. So we'll keep on trucking, she'll completely get it someday.
So she was at my MILs all day Wednesday, and then Thursday morning when she was sitting on the potty I noticed her one thigh was really red, but I brushed it off, assuming it was just from laying on something in bed. But a few hours later when I changed her pants it was still all red, and warm to the touch. Then I noticed other spots...some were just small spots, some were large massive areas. I freaked out, not knowing what they were. I called her doctor and they said they would send her a message. But then I remembered when she was first born I had pinned an article about kid rashes, so I looked that up. From the description and everything it sounded like hives.
I text my MIL asking if she had noticed redness the day before. She said no, but come to think of it she said she had been scratching her ankle quite a bit. So it must have started sometime Wednesday. She cannot think of any new food (besides rye bread, but what would be in rye bread that she hasn't had in other breads?) or laundry detergent. When I finally spoke to the doctor she agreed that it sounded like hives and told me to do 5ml of benedryl three times a day for two days and then as needed. I had already looked it up online and had given her 3ml, so I gave her 2 more and within 20 minutes they looked a lot better. Her doc said it could have been something she ate any time in the last 72 hours.
The ONLY thing I can think of is she had a few bites of my granola bar which had almonds in it. But I am certain she has had bites of that kind before and was fine. I asked a friend whose son has a tree nut allergy and she said food allergies are weird like that, and she could have had them before and been fine, but now the allergy has developed. So until I can get her tested, I have been trying to avoid tree nuts. My God, there are almonds in like everything! My dad called today and mentioned that his rice that we had at dinner last Friday had almond slivers in it (which I know, I eat that rice all the time and completely forgot about the almonds) and he had given her some. And that night we had cake and ice cream for my birthday....I was a few bites in (as was Emily) when I asked what kind it was and my dad said Rocky Road. I asked what the rocks were, so he looked it up....almonds! Gah!
The hives have come and gone since then but never as severe as the first day I noticed, so I would think if she has a tree nut allergy, she would have broken out really bad all over again after the rice and ice cream on Friday. I don't know. I guess I'll just take her in to be tested so we can either confirm or rule it out. Then I was thinking, my inlaws just got new furniture. I know stuff like that often has fumes, and chemicals on them at first. I can remember as a kid I spent a few days sneezing after we got new carpet. So maybe some chemical on the furniture irritated her. She's been over there at least three times since they got it though, but who knows, maybe she didn't crawl around on it much those other days.
Well, she goes back to Nana's this week so I'll just have her be very conscious of what she gives her and see if she breaks out again. She could have just come into contact with something that bothered her and it was a one time thing. I hope so, because I'd really hate for her to have to go through life with a food allergy. I couldn't even give her some of my chocolate covered pretzels today because they are made on a line that could also process food with tree nuts in them. And yesterday she kept begging me for a bite of the candy bar Ryan gave me with my gift, but it too had almonds in it. I never realized how almonds are taking over the culinary world!
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Potty training day 9, block 3
So I guess we're in block 3 now because I have been going out for longer trips, not necessarily because I want to, but because I want to live my life and not be chained to the house anymore. But I might have to re-evaluate this going commando thing. I understand the reasoning behind it, but I feel like she is just as inclined to go in her pants commando as she is underwear. But I think maybe if we make a big deal out of buying character underwear, maybe she won't want to pee on the princesses.
She did well yesterday, no accidents. Actually she hadn't had an accident since like Friday. But then today she had two. We were outside playing while I was cleaning up the yard, and suddenly I can see pee trickling out of her pants. That was kind of my fault though, I can't depend on her yet to tell me when she has to go, and I overestimated how long we could play outside before taking a potty break. I'm still in training as much as she is, I am so used to the freedom of diapers and not having to worry about it.
At least it was outside though and all I have to clean is her pants. So I got her cleaned up and put Frozen on for her. It had been about 45 minutes and we were getting ready to go out to dinner, so I was going to wait until just before we left to have her go potty. I left the room for a minute and when I came back her pants were soaked. Maybe my fault again? But it hadn't been that long, her pee outside seemed to be a lot of pee so I figured she was done for a while.
But the good news is, we went out for three hours tonight and she didn't have an accident, and she even tinkled a tiny bit in a public toilet. I thought for sure the size and the fact that the auto flusher went off once while she was sitting, would freak her out. Then when we got home I put her on the potty and left the room for a minute and when I came back she had peed in the potty. Yay! Maybe I am still just expecting too much too soon. I got over confident from how well she did naked. But still, I do think her pants make her feel like she can go in them. So if to her, pants feel the same as a diaper, and underwear feels like a diaper, then it wouldn't hurt to try underwear, and hope that the character factor will work. Maybe I will take her shopping on Friday and let her pick out some big girl undies.
She did well yesterday, no accidents. Actually she hadn't had an accident since like Friday. But then today she had two. We were outside playing while I was cleaning up the yard, and suddenly I can see pee trickling out of her pants. That was kind of my fault though, I can't depend on her yet to tell me when she has to go, and I overestimated how long we could play outside before taking a potty break. I'm still in training as much as she is, I am so used to the freedom of diapers and not having to worry about it.
At least it was outside though and all I have to clean is her pants. So I got her cleaned up and put Frozen on for her. It had been about 45 minutes and we were getting ready to go out to dinner, so I was going to wait until just before we left to have her go potty. I left the room for a minute and when I came back her pants were soaked. Maybe my fault again? But it hadn't been that long, her pee outside seemed to be a lot of pee so I figured she was done for a while.
But the good news is, we went out for three hours tonight and she didn't have an accident, and she even tinkled a tiny bit in a public toilet. I thought for sure the size and the fact that the auto flusher went off once while she was sitting, would freak her out. Then when we got home I put her on the potty and left the room for a minute and when I came back she had peed in the potty. Yay! Maybe I am still just expecting too much too soon. I got over confident from how well she did naked. But still, I do think her pants make her feel like she can go in them. So if to her, pants feel the same as a diaper, and underwear feels like a diaper, then it wouldn't hurt to try underwear, and hope that the character factor will work. Maybe I will take her shopping on Friday and let her pick out some big girl undies.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Potting training day 7
Alright, I said I wasn't going to post anymore day to day, but there were a few moments that I thought were blog worthy today.
So she didn't have any accidents yesterday, and today went pretty well. I always have her sit on the potty when she first gets up, one to create a routine, and two because I have no idea when she last peed in her diaper during sleep. She didn't go. I had some sort of weird stomach bug today, so I was occupied in the bathroom for a bit this morning....no further details are necessary. Of course it's an open door policy since it's easier than her banging on the door the whole time I am in there.
So she runs and says pee pee. I said you have to pee pee? Hurry, go sit on your potty and pee. I had no idea if she did or not until I was able to emerge, and there was pee in the potty! I was so proud she did it all on her own without me even in the room. Now granted, she was still naked from the waist down since she hadn't put her pants back on after trying first thing, and she did amazing on the naked days, but I still count it as a positive.
After nap she hadn't had many liquids so all of our attempts were futile. She had a glass of milk with dinner and a few "water heavy" foods, so I figured she would have to go. Nope. I tried every half hour but she would just sit there. She often gets too absorbed into watching TV or reading a book, so I am trying to get her to concentrate so she'll go. Fifteen minutes before bedtime I saw her squatting a little....arg, I always miss the pre-poop signs. I don't catch it until there is poop in the pants.
So I sat her on the potty but she was all upset because she got poo on the potty seat. I got her cleaned up but insisted she stay on the potty because she had only pooped, not peed. But then I felt the wet spot on the carpet. But, I think all kids have a hard time with poop, and if she had just had to pee, I think she would have gone in the potty, but the pee accident came along with the poop accident.
So we're still in block two, but I need to grocery shop tomorrow, so I am torn. If I wait until my husband gets up to watch her, I can't go until 4 or 5 and by then my energy to go has waned. Maybe if I am really quick we can do it in under half an hour. Especially if we go first thing in the morning, since she tends not to pee much before noon. I also have to go to the Secretary of State to renew my driver's license. It expires Tuesday and I forgot all about it. For that I am going to go during her nap, there is no way I am going to take a newly potty trained child to the SOS and wait for God knows how long. I can't wait to go buy her underwear. I am hoping she'll be really into buying it and not want to pee on the characters.
Lately I've been itching to convert her crib to a toddler bed, but I know that's stupid to do right now when there is no reason to. The past couple weeks she has gotten a lot better about going down for nap and bed easily since taking her bottles away, so why rock the boat? I think she will do ok in a toddler bed as far as sleeping goes, but I foresee lots of getting up and playing when she should be sleeping, yelling for me to come get her when she cannot get her bedroom door open, plus I have to really go through her room and baby proof it better; anchor the furniture, make sure cords aren't as appealing, figure out how I am going to baby proof her closet door so I don't wake up every day to the entire contents of her closet pulled out into her room. So as excited as I am to move on to the next step, I don't want to deal with that right now. She only occasionally tries to climb out and she isn't even close to being successful, and most mornings she just happily plays in her crib once she wakes up.
For right now we are only day time training, so maybe in August or September we'll start nap and night time training, and then we'll convert her crib so she can get up to potty in the middle of the night.
So she didn't have any accidents yesterday, and today went pretty well. I always have her sit on the potty when she first gets up, one to create a routine, and two because I have no idea when she last peed in her diaper during sleep. She didn't go. I had some sort of weird stomach bug today, so I was occupied in the bathroom for a bit this morning....no further details are necessary. Of course it's an open door policy since it's easier than her banging on the door the whole time I am in there.
So she runs and says pee pee. I said you have to pee pee? Hurry, go sit on your potty and pee. I had no idea if she did or not until I was able to emerge, and there was pee in the potty! I was so proud she did it all on her own without me even in the room. Now granted, she was still naked from the waist down since she hadn't put her pants back on after trying first thing, and she did amazing on the naked days, but I still count it as a positive.
After nap she hadn't had many liquids so all of our attempts were futile. She had a glass of milk with dinner and a few "water heavy" foods, so I figured she would have to go. Nope. I tried every half hour but she would just sit there. She often gets too absorbed into watching TV or reading a book, so I am trying to get her to concentrate so she'll go. Fifteen minutes before bedtime I saw her squatting a little....arg, I always miss the pre-poop signs. I don't catch it until there is poop in the pants.
So I sat her on the potty but she was all upset because she got poo on the potty seat. I got her cleaned up but insisted she stay on the potty because she had only pooped, not peed. But then I felt the wet spot on the carpet. But, I think all kids have a hard time with poop, and if she had just had to pee, I think she would have gone in the potty, but the pee accident came along with the poop accident.
So we're still in block two, but I need to grocery shop tomorrow, so I am torn. If I wait until my husband gets up to watch her, I can't go until 4 or 5 and by then my energy to go has waned. Maybe if I am really quick we can do it in under half an hour. Especially if we go first thing in the morning, since she tends not to pee much before noon. I also have to go to the Secretary of State to renew my driver's license. It expires Tuesday and I forgot all about it. For that I am going to go during her nap, there is no way I am going to take a newly potty trained child to the SOS and wait for God knows how long. I can't wait to go buy her underwear. I am hoping she'll be really into buying it and not want to pee on the characters.
Lately I've been itching to convert her crib to a toddler bed, but I know that's stupid to do right now when there is no reason to. The past couple weeks she has gotten a lot better about going down for nap and bed easily since taking her bottles away, so why rock the boat? I think she will do ok in a toddler bed as far as sleeping goes, but I foresee lots of getting up and playing when she should be sleeping, yelling for me to come get her when she cannot get her bedroom door open, plus I have to really go through her room and baby proof it better; anchor the furniture, make sure cords aren't as appealing, figure out how I am going to baby proof her closet door so I don't wake up every day to the entire contents of her closet pulled out into her room. So as excited as I am to move on to the next step, I don't want to deal with that right now. She only occasionally tries to climb out and she isn't even close to being successful, and most mornings she just happily plays in her crib once she wakes up.
For right now we are only day time training, so maybe in August or September we'll start nap and night time training, and then we'll convert her crib so she can get up to potty in the middle of the night.
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