We're very lucky.
Jack is the sort of child
we all assume we'll have
when we decide to have children,
and the sort of child
less experienced parents
congratulate themselves for.January and February 2004
March and April 2004
May and June 2004
July and August 2004
September and October 2004
November and December 2004
Blogs we read:
Friday, Aug. 13, 2004 - (Mamma)
Jack's New Milestone
or
Let the (Toileting) Begin!
Jack's current favorite!
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Jack has used the baby-toilet for the first time!
It wasn't planned, exactly. But as I have mentioned before, Jack has been showing quite a bit of interest in the toilet and how we use it, so we got him his own baby-toilet.
We have occasionally put him on it while we use the big toilet -- sometimes with his diaper, sometimes without, depending mainly on our own urgency. But there was never any thought that he would use it for the intended purpose -- it was just a "companionable" thing. He was doing what we were doing.
He would sit there and "talk" with us about what the toilet was for--signing for us about pooing and waving bye-bye for flushing.
Anyway, this morning, I plopped him into his high chair and we served him his customary breakfast of bananas and whole grain toast with vegemite. I came back after getting dressed, and Jack had eaten relatively little and was telling me he was done. Well, he is a baby, and what he eats varies a lot, depending on whethr he's growing.
It was time to dress him for our trip in to the office, so I started to change his diaper and discovered that I had ... um, "caught him midway", as it were. I stopped to wait it out (no point in changing soiled diapers twice in five minutes) when it occurred to me that this was the ideal opportunity -- so we hurried him onto the baby-toilet.
He say there looking confused for a moment. The he signed "poo" looking concerned. I told him that he was indeed supposed to poo there...so he did. Then he told me he was done -- and he was indeed!
Hurrah! He got to use his prized toilet paper (with a lot of help, of course), and then we dumped his pot and flushed the contents, waving goodbye to them, and Dad and I both told him how proud we are that he's such a big boy!
It may not happen again for quite a while -- maybe not until next time I catch him in the deed. But it's a first!
(Funny how early parenthood can reduce even the most dignified of us to a state of finding the processing of used food an acceptable topic for conversation. Oh well. No one ever accused me of being overly dignified!)
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