Thursday, March 28, 2013

The babysitter is on vacation this week, so Micah had two different babysitters who came to the house this week to watch him (both friends who have watched him before). When I came home yesterday, Katie had him sitting at the dining room table, in a regular chair, in a seated position, and coloring. It was completely adorable and I realize now that I should have taken a photo.

Of course now, he now refuses to sit in the highchair. He only wants to sit in the real chair.

Micah is changing by leaps and bounds in every way. He has started singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to himself all day ("Yah-Yah Yah-Yah Yah-Yah-Yah"). It's even almost in tune. He talks to himself and to us in full sentences of jibber jabber. I have no idea what he's saying and he doesn't seem to mind that. Every time he hears a phone ring (like a standard wall phone somewhere), he perks up and yells "Heyyo!!" Usually I don't even realize the phone is ringing until he is saying Hello. And when a conversation on the phone starts to wind down, or a conversation with someone outside on a walk winds down, he recognizes the shift and says, "Bye Bye."

I think he's also experimenting with selecting a lovee. In the last week he has taken his sleep sack to bed at naptime, he's also taken a sock, a book on a couple occasions, a benadryl syringe, his toothbrush, a stuffed animal, whatever he has in his hand at bedtime needs to stay with him. I had to wrestle a bottle of shampoo from his little hands the other day. I guess the line needs to be drawn somewhere!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Something completely unbelievable happened on Friday. Micah and I were sitting in the living room and he went to sit down on the lid of the potty that we bought for him. It's just been sitting in the living room so that it's familiar to him and so that he learns how to sit on it, but mostly he's used it for storing toys inside. I made him wait to sit until I opened the lid so that he was sitting on the toilet seat itself and when I did that, he emptied all the little toys out of it and sat down.

Then he got up and was pulling up the legs of his pants. I had no idea what he was trying to do and so I  tickled him for a minute, grabbing his knees and stuff when they were visible. Then he started pulling up the waistline of his pants and grabbing the crotch of his diaper and all of a sudden I realized that he might be saying "bathroom. bathroom."

So I asked him, "do you want to go to the bathroom?" He said "bathroom," so I told him if he wants to sit on the potty, let's bring it up to his room. He walked straight to the door of the first floor and up the stairs and into his room. Once we got up there, he pulled on his pants again. I helped him get the pants off and his diaper and he went, sat down on the open potty, and peed.

I seriously could not believe it. We have not even talked about going to the bathroom. Sometimes he comes into the bathroom while I'm using the toilet but he's so busy opening and closing the door or unravelling the toilet paper that I would never have said he was the least bit interested in what I was doing on the toilet. It turns out he must have been paying more attention than I thought.

Once he got up, I went to put his diaper back on and he fought me tooth and nail. He laid on the floor of his bedroom throwing an all out tantrum while I emptied the bowl of the potty into the toilet. I picked him up, carried him downstairs, and he continued crying even after I put him on the floor in the living room to work it out. Then he got up and said "bathroom" and grabbed at his diaper again. I asked if he wanted to go to the bathroom again, I didn't know what else to do, he was losing his mind!

He said "bathroom" and quieted down while I took him back upstairs. He was excited while I took off his pants and diaper, he sat on the potty and peed again. I guess he just wasn't done because this time, he got off the toilet and sat down on the diaper I had waiting on the floor. He laid there quietly and happily while I put the diaper back on.

He peed in the potty twice more that evening, several times on Sunday, and again several times today. (He was at the babysitter yesterday.) I put him on the potty before and after his nap this afternoon and when I took off the diaper before putting him on after the nap, it was still dry!

I seriously am not prepared for this. I have no idea what to do next and I was not planning to be potty training for a while. Boys are supposed to take longer! But I guess we're doing this. We'll see how it goes!