This week I signed Ethan up for preschool for the fall. He is supposed to be potty trained by then. I’m not sure that he will be. I’ve decided that his bladder is too small for him to successful at it. I hope it grows by then-though it will have to grow significantly (after he drinks, he pees every 20min.) The doctor isn’t concerned yet. I also signed him up for a summer program at a different preschool. He doesn’t have to be potty trained for that one so if he’s not ready by August I’ll just switch him to the other school. They let him play with the 2year old class while I was in the directors office filling out papers. He didn’t even say goodbye, he just walked off as if he waiting for permission to go play. Boo-hoo. Sniff. Sniff.
Ethan was a champ during allergy testing. He laughed when they stuck his back. We watched “Elmo in Grouchland” during the event on the dvd player. Nothing showed up on the test. She said that his symptoms are probably from environmental triggers that they can’t test for. She said he can’t have a fan in his room, no carpet and no stuffed animals. Yeah right. As we were leaving, Ethan saw a man in the waiting room and pointed to him and said something. I wasn’t sure what he said, then I heard the man laughing. I went around the corner to see the man and then I knew. He said “Man has no hair, just a head.”
We took Ethan to my grandparents for the weekend. He slept in his very own sleeping bag for the first time. He enjoyed visiting the local state park and seeing all the animals. Unfortunately, he had a couple of spills while we were there. My grandfather didn’t know Ethan was right behind him when he opened the door and Ethan got hit. He was wearing sandals and the door took off part of his toenail. It was quite a scene. The next day, I took him for a walk and while he was running down the road he fell face first into the road. He cries every time he sees his face.
We’re plugging along with the potty thing. After a few weeks of our second try at it (we had tried about four months ago) I was starting to think we were at the same place and that he hadn’t progressed at all. I was beginning to think we should take a break again. Then out of the blue he started to suprise me. Several times over the last week he has told me he had to go. He has also seemed to hold his pee longer than 15 minutes (we’re up to about 45). I haven’t bothered with the whole pooping in the potty thing because the last time we tried this he was very resistant. Four months ago I remember I could tell he was about to go and I would take him to sit on the potty and he would hold it in. Then the minute a pull up was on, he would go. Recently, he has been wanting to be changed right after going. In fact, he frequently goes during his rest time and will take him pullup off in his room and then call for me. (I won’t share the details in what happens when a two year old takes off his own pullup full of poop). So the other day, he was running around the house naked and I was washing dishes when I heard the sound of his potty (it makes a sound when he sits on it). I figured he was playing with it or peeing on it when I heard him say “poop in the potty.” I went to see what had happened and was shocked to discover that he had gone! He went again a few hours later on his own. Of course the next day he went in his pullup but there is progress. I’ll end this posting with more exciting developments: he wanted to try peeing standing up and did it quite well on his own. It will be nice when he is skilled at doing that because now when we are out at the store and I take him to the potty, I have to put his bulky potty seat on top of the toilet. It is made of two separate pieces of plastic and he inevitabley pees between the two pieces (due to poor aim). Picture me in a small stall because the handicap stall is always taken, trying to take apart the potty seat to wipe off the pee(because if I don’t clean it it will leak all over my diaper bag) while trying to keep him from touching every nasty thing in the bathroom. Needless to say, peeing standing up will be greatly appreciated.
