Funny

The potty pause is still ongoing, but Julia's vocab and teeth are coming in at a rate that I find hard to keep up with.

Julia managed to embarass some poor man in a public bathroom when Paul took her to pay a potty visit yesterday when we went out to eat. Paul told me about it later.

At home we praise Julia when she makes it on the potty. You know... a little cheer of "Yay! You put peepee/poopoo in the potty where it goes!" or similar.

So Paul takes her to the bathroom and there's someone in the other stall making a really loud #2. Julia hears this happening, applauds, and shouts out "Yaaaaay!"

The mystery man probably feels embarassed and starts to try to disguise the sound of his pooping by flushing the toilet periodically. Doesn't help, because Julia continues to applaud and cheer him on.

I asked Paul what he said to the man and Paul said he said absolutely nothing and tried not to laugh.

Potty Pause

We've hit our first lengthy potty pause.

Julia's experimenting with how long she can hold it before she can't hold any more. She's also very distracted because I've been very busy in the last two weeks with volunteer work and she's in different environments. Add the fascination of emptying the potty into the toilet whether or not it actually needs emptying and things around here are wacky.

VERy into "dia-doh" though.We try to get her to say"Dia-PER" but she insists it is "dia-DOH."

Points out diapers from the laundry, on other babies in daycare/preschool and yesterday she found the stack of diapers at the changing station at school and started running off with them, laying them on the ground, saying "off!" while trying to take her pants off and trying to sit in the diaper on the floor to put them on.

She does that at home too -- wanting to take off and try on new diapers.

Julai peed in her purple diaper the other day, got it half off her body and came running to me with a clean one yelling "Dia-Doh! Dia-Doh!" wanting me to change her to a fresh one.