If I had written this blog at 10:30 this morning, there would have been a much different tone to it. The day started out great. I woke up early got some cleaning done and got ready for the day. I even spent time with the Lord.
We had no accidents for the first hour. Ben was off today and went and grabbed me a Starbucks venti coffee. Coco had to go potty, so she sat on the potty and I sat back to feed Caylee and enjoy my coffee. I reached back to grab it and knocked it over instead. The entire coffee, minus the
one sip i had taken went on coffee table, wall, couch and in every crevasse possible. I quickly unlatched the baby, jumped up and grabbed a towel. It was everywhere! I was bummed, disappointed, frustrated and annoyed. I tried to keep Coco on the potty and cleaned up some of the mess, Courtney had peed, so we celebrated, though I was clearly distracted and finished feeding the baby. Meanwhile, I began the rest of the clean up, it seemed like every time I grabbed a rag and cleaning solution to clean my mess, Courtney would have an accident. I saw her grunting I ran to grab her and I put down her underwear in time to get some of the poop in the potty. But some fell on the floor and I turned around to find our dog Romo snacking away on it. Argh! I was mad, I literally kicked him out to the patio.I was beyond frustrated, not with her, but with myself. I knew I was not paying enough attention to her to catch her dry or needing to potty. Once I had the coffee cleaned up, load of laundry going (filled with coffee towels, pee pee towels, and wet underwear), I paid complete attention to Courtney. We played games, watched TV and even took a very short walk to the neighbor's house to return something. No accidents!
She went all evening with no accidents and several success pee pees. I did discover that she would try and pee and just a little would come out. We would celebrate, but I discovered, if I gave her the reward "big candy" and had her eat it while sitting on the potty she would most likely pee a little more. This happened at least 3 xs.
I had a possible break through with Caylee too. She has intermittently been sleeping thru the night and usually waking up at after 7 hours, so I tried tricking her and I fed her at midnight last night instead of 10:30. She started to fuss and wake up but since I didn't pick her up she went back to sleep. I ended waking her after 8 1/2 hours because it was time for her to wake. I hope I broke her pattern, we'll see tonight.
Another exhausting experience, she still has no idea about the urge to pee and doesn't tell me, but I know that will come with time.
Tomorrow is a new day.
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