Friday, June 10, 2005

Baby Gates and Towels

Julia is mystified with the new baby gates. Came to stare at me in the kitchen and started hissing at me to tell me she had to go poo. Now that she can open the fridge we put gates up to keep her out.

She thinks all remotely round food is "apple." She's already gone in there to put fang marks in grapefruit and was after an onion the other time. So... def. baby gates. Can't have her sampling all the produce at random searching for the elusive apple!

Seems happy with her potty performances. Uses a potty, stands up to look inside, claps, points, and last night took her potty bucket to Daddy and announced "See? See?" He duly admired her pee and pleased, she walked off to fling it into the toilet and tried to flush it away.

I'm not ready to trust her yet with this so I always follow to make sure she carries the potty bucket upright.

She's got the hand washing idea down. Stands by the side of the tub waiting for someone to turn the tub faucet on for her.

But she doesn't want any other towel than the towel on the rack by the door. If there's no towel, she gets upset. I try to point out other towels in the bathroom liek on the rack by the window or her baby towel on her doorknob. While Julia nods and agrees they are towels, she only wants to use a towel if it is on the rack by the door.

Weirdo.

Funny one -- had her in panties in the afternoon. She was playing, started to pee in her panties, grabbed her crotch and shouted "Uh oh!" and ran off to find her bedroom potty. Finished the pee in there. Panties got all wet, but that's ok.

She's still trying to sort out the problem of taking her panties off by herself.

That "Uh oh!" was priceless though. Ha.

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Vacation in Cloth

One week vacation and we made it in cloth. 12 hr drive up, our stay, and 12 hr drive back. On the drive up she was mega-teethy and the excess saliva gave her the runs so she had to go a lot and we had a lot of mises. But the three teeth popped out on vacation, she stopepd the crazy drool, and on the drive back? We made it home in the SAME DIAPER!

I wasn't sure how it was going to work out on travel so I brought 12 fitteds for the driving days and something like 24-36 CPFS for other times. I also brought 10 covers. Overkill, but better overkill than to have to buy disposables.