week ending nov 5, 2006

Week ending November 5, 2006: Welcome to all potty all the time news network. Potty training officially started Oct 16, and Chloe has had her 1st 2 accidents this week. It had been 2 weeks with no accidents so I was starting to relax and figure that she had a handle on things when she had her 1st accident. Then I started asking her to sit on the potty more often and she started rebelling. She refused to go at all. One day she held it from 8am to after 5pm before she decided that it was time for her to go in the potty. Then she went accident-free for 5 days and then had another accident. I didn’t chastise her after either accident, but she knew she’d not done what we wanted her to do. After the 2nd accident she said “Mom, are you still a little bit proud of me?”. Alex is still doing most of his pee in the potty, and all of his poo in his diaper. This week he told his Daddy that it is “ok” to poo in his pull-up diaper. We may have to try him in underpants again. Also this week, the kids had their 3 year well visit. In the past year Alex has gone from 29lb 34.5in tall to 33lb 38 in tall, and Chloe has gone from 25lb 33.5in tall to 29lb 37 in tall. Chloe is still having acid reflux problems, so we are trying her on a new medicine. Alex has been on Claritin for his seasonal allergies and we are adding Singulair to his regimen. The doctor also said that the speech of a 3 year should be understandable by a stranger 75% of the time. I don’t believe that Alex’s articulation is that clear, so we are going to talk to the county about having him tested through the Head Start program. We’ve been noticing lately that Alex sings all the time. Much of the time he makes up his own tunes and lyrics, and sometimes he gets Chloe to sing with him. Chloe has become interested in coloring lately (neither twin has been much interested in coloring in the past). Also this week Chloe overheard Grammy Barb talking about a doctor and Chloe said “Did you know that a few days ago I went to see Dr Escabosa? He is my pediatrician.”. If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious!