I go Pee Pee on the Floor

"I go pee pee on the floor. And wash my pants. I wash my pants in the sink. Sink wa wa. And wash it. And mommy frustrated I go pee pee on the floor.". This was Courtney's explanation to me after the below events occured.

Courtney hasn't had a single accident in months, then yesterday she had one and today she had another. This one was mostly my fault and could have had a much worse outcome.

She told me she had to go to the bathroom, I had just started to feed Caylee Love and did t want to take her because Caylee would have started screaming. So I told her to go up to her room and use that bathroom. She uses this one all the time by herself. She was gone for a while and I didn't hear many noises thru the monitor, then she came down and told me that she had peed in her pants and had washed them in the sink. I thought, oh no, this could be bad. I run upstairs to find her shorts and underwear in the sink, water on full blast and draining over the top of the sink onto the bathroom floor.

Fortunately, I got there fast enough to prevent too much clean up. At least she was trying to help!

Caylee is growing too fast

It's a love/hate about my baby girls growing up. I love each new stage but I miss that they aren't going to be babies. Caylee is 10 months now. She still isn't crawling, which is fine with me. According to the pediatrician and all the books, they should be crawling by now. I take the blame, though. One, I don't want her to crawl yet, once she starts crawling it's going to be so much difficult around here. Two, I don't put her on her tummy enough. She doesn't like it much, and so the only time she gets the practice is if I lay down with her or if I listen to her scream, both don't happen enough.

Well, yesterday she got up on her hands and knees for the first time and stayearthere for a while. Today she stood holding onto a toy for a super long time. She was playing with one of those standing toys. I think she is going to be crawling in the next few weeks.

She is so much more interactive as well. She hates when Courtney takes toys away, she screams "Mama!!". In the stroller she tortures Courtney by pulling on her clothes, grabbing her legs, grabbing her snacks and anything her chubby little hands can grasp. She wants to be a part of everything going on.

One of my favorite things right now is listening to the two girls giggle. This happens a lot in the car. Coco will get Caylee laughing and then Coco starts laughing, and then both are doing things to make the other giggle. It's so cute to see and hear them interact. I love it.

It's fun to see her become such a big girl.

You swallowed a penny!!

"Mommy! Look! My monies are all gone". Oh the dreadful words a mommy hears as her toddler points to her wide open mouth. "What?!!!"

I had the two girls in the car with me and we were getting back from a playdate. Our van was looking messy and I wanted to clean it out a bit. I let Courtney roam thru the van as I cleaned up a bit. I found a penny in the back and said to Courtney, "Coco, look I found a penny! Do you want it for your piggy bank?". She immediately came over with a smile on her face and said, "Yeah!". She has played with "monies" for over a year now and knows that we don't put it in our mouth.

About a minute later she tells me that she ate her penny. I didn't believe her and kept asking her over and over. I told her she would get in trouble if she did swallow it, so if she didn't we needed to find it. We searched that whole car and couldn't find it. She kept telling me she ate it and it was in her tummy.

I immediately looked on my phone to see if it was something I should take her in for (gotta love the iphone) or should i just see if it passes. Everything said take her in, so I made some calls and planned to just take her to the pediatrician which opened in an hour. Then daddy called and said to bring her into his work.

Daddy was working in Irvine, so it was super convienient. We went in and got the red carpet treatment. They were so great with Courtney, she was a little nervous, but they kept her at ease. Daddy was able to come down several times and see us and help out. Caylee ended up sleeping in the ergo, so it freed me up to concentrate on Courtney.

They took her in and took an xray of her. Daddy was able to hold her down and be right there. As they checked out her xray, Daddy went in with them. All of a sudden we heard a roar of laughter as the entire radiology department sees the penny in her tummy on the xray. So she wasn't lying! We showed Courtney, she broke the ice even more by saying "Poop!" to the whole group.

They sent us back with instructions that it should pass, but Mommy gets to search her poo for the penny to make sure. Courtney did great the whole time. She was a good listener and handled it well. Ben promised her ice cream, so I took her to the cafeteria and we got her an ice cream. She ate every last drop to the point that I threw the ice cream away and a few drops few on the trash can and before I could stop her she licked it off! Oh my Courtney.

To complete the craziness of the day, I thought we lost blankie. We could not find it anywhere and for the first time Courtney went to sleep without it. I ended up finding it in the car under Courtney's seat. Whew!! That could have been a really bad ending to an already crazy day.