It’s a Sign
It might be time to potty train when… your diaper is the same size as your baby sister. Rose’s Size 6 Pampers Cruisers could eat Violet. As I said yesterday, it’s clearly time to potty train. If only...
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At a cousin’s wedding nine years ago, my mom, sister and I got very bored. We had to go to the wedding at least two hours early in order to take some family pictures. We weren’t even going to be in...
View ArticleI Only Threw Up a Little
Dr. Toy Warden, also known as The Berated Professor, has taken over potty training Rose because I’m utterly incompetent. It took me more than 2 years to potty train Lily and I couldn’t get a drop out...
View ArticleTerminology
Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, this child is potty trained. Dr. Toy Warden worked some kind of voodoo Daddy is better than Mommy potty training magic and within a few days Rose was potty...
View ArticleThe Bag Lady Returns
Lily was temporarily a potty training prodigy and started pooping in the potty at 15 months old. From that moment on, I became a bag lady. She only weighed about 17 pounds and had such a tiny little...
View ArticleWhen Good Plans Go Bad
Our city has a beautiful garden park that my kids love more than the playground. If I were a kid and I had the choice between a playground and a garden park, I would choose the playground every time,...
View ArticleOn Pants
Every children’s museum gift shop needs to equip itself with the following items: *wipes *emergency diapers in size 3 (most versatile diaper size EVER) *pants in at least sizes 2T through 4T with a...
View ArticlePee Patrol Woof Woof
Last night out of nowhere, Lily announced that she wanted to wear underwear to bed. She was really confident that even though she’s never ever ever woken up dry in a pull-up, she would wake up dry if...
View ArticleCinderella Wants You to Go Potty
Lately we’ve had a major potty training problem, but then when DON’T we have a potty training problem around these here parts? I know there will be a time in my children’s life when trying to prevent...
View Article“I Don’t Want It”
We recently bought Lily a new bike. It’s one of those fantastic princess numbers with a carriage and streamers in the front. She lucked out and got the bike for no reason at all. We discovered Rose was...
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