Potty Training! Scary!

We started underwear and potty training steps, and it is so scary. The toddler has been showing us she is ready for a good while now, running to specific places to crouch and poop, trying to take off her diaper before and after she pees, but I have been hesitant because she is not the best at speaking to communicate yet, she can tell you what she wants with gestures and signs and doesn't seem to care to speak unless your really not paying attention to her, or she really has to tell you she didn't do something, and we take a lot of road trips so she won't be able to communicate her need to use the bathroom as well as a mommy would like, but she is outgrowing the largest size of iPlay swim diapers at 20 months old, and size 6 huggies are even too snug after a big meal.

So we bought Pull Ups which we will probably use at night until we wean off the full bottles around bed time, and underwear, and we have been spending more time acclimating her to the potty she has been peeing on since she was 6 months old. It was really about curiosity then, sitting when mommy sat since she didn't want to be apart and she would just go most of the time, this is different she is more mobile, more opinionated, more fun.

Tonight she had a dry hour before bed, with a little potty sitting and playing up and down with her panties, we will try for longer tomorrow, and more the day after that, until this process is done, wooooo. I just hope she doesn't use the diaper free time to pee on the cat like she did every time she had naked time when she was itty bitty.

5 days shy of 20 months

... I breast fed my daughter for 5 days shy of 20 months. I promised her a year, she conned 5 days short of 20 months from me. I can't even really say conned, she convinced me though.

It was a tough journey. For the first 5 weeks she didn't gain weight, we tried everything, and learned she was getting a fair quantity because of weighted feeds, so they tested my milk and I had low fat low iron milk, the low iron is not a shock since even taking 4 325mg ferrous sulfate pills a day I am extremely anemic, like my normal number is 9, after the iron pills. So we supplemented, and she finally started gaining weight (she was gaining height and head circumference, but not weight) and now she is well above the charts, has been since she was 6 months old. She decided she was done with formula at 10 months, which her doctor was fine with since she was still breastfeeding and we were able to incorporate whole cows milk.

So then when December came and I met with the RE she asked me to cut down, so that my cycle while returned and regular would not be effected, so we stopped boob when the sun was down, no more night feedings. Though she still got to have it for nap time, and comfort during the day. Everyone was okay with this, the toddler and my doctor.

Then came Friday. We took the toddler to lunch at one of her favorite restaurants. She got upset because she dropped the temperature toothpick from her steak which is how she likes to eat her steak, and started throwing a fit. She repeatedly tried to remove my shirt, not to feed but to hold my boob, we were seated directly across from the men's room, and with my PTSD resulting from sexual trauma, it was insanely hard on me. I told her if she kept it up she would not breast feed any more. She kept it up, and we reached the point of done. Today was day 3 without it, she hasn't asked again, and it's safe to say we are done. I might miss it eventually, I love the bonus snuggles from it, but I did miss having some part of my body to myself. For a month (hopefully) any way.

Sick Toddler

Toddler has been incredibly congested for 3 days, though it seems to be clearing up. Yesterday she even had a fever with it. Tylenol cleared it right up, thank goodness. She hates having her nose wiped, which has made it a LONG couple of days. Luckily a few months ago we made her milk tea the first time, and so it was easy to keep her hydrated and give her honey to prevent a sore throat from post nasal drip. I am assuming she has post nasal drip since I do, and she basically has my nose lol.

The hardest part might be that since she is sick she is extra cranky. I keep getting punched, and yelled at, in toddlerese which is not always easy to figure out. As she gets better she is being friendly again thank goodness. Of course she is still her stubborn self, sick or not. And her eating habits are getting back to normal, which is always a good thing.

Flying Spaghetti Monsters

I am not sure where tonight's blog will go, I just feel the need to write something... though I am not sure exactly what.

I am 5 episodes from being ready to watch the episode tonight, so that will all be caught up tomorrow. But i can't take any more tonight.

For now it is about time to put the toddler down for a nap, she had an interesting day, she refused to eat at lunch when we got Dim Sum, because she wanted her normal from that restaurant, so guess who got her sushi after all, lol. For real toddlers can be so intense!  She also tried to boycott her nap today, and ended up taking a late one, so hopefully here in a few minutes she will sleep at bedtime. Only time will tell!

Toddler Eating habits

This week I did a survey on my toddler's eating habits. They called on a Wednesday so the information was about a Tuesday. Tuesdays might be the worst day of the week for my toddler's eating habits. You see Tuesday is the day she has swim class, so she always has M&Ms, and we usually eat out for lunch, much of the time it's fast food, so she can eat before her nap. We also have fried rice and orange chicken every week, because it's the hubby's favorite, and well it's nice to have one night a week where I don't have to think about what we are eating. So it looked like she is not the best eater.

Other foods she has eaten this week include Miso soup, which she LOVES, sushi, bul go gi, tilapia, so much broccoli, and chicken tikka masala. Yes she is a typical American kid, she has had chips, animal crackers, a juice box, a ton of chocolate milk, and fruit snacks. Most kids would have a hard time eating healthy ALL the time, but it's nice that my kid will eat healthy a good chunk of the time.

It's hard not to have mom guilt over the things she eats, I hope she will grow up with a good palate, enjoying lots of different types of foods, but I can't predict it, because she is a toddler, and she my first kid, so I don't really know when things might change, for now I am happy she will try all new foods, and she enjoys exotic cuisines.