At long last and back by popular demand here is our (read: Kate's) latest Claire video. Enjoy.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Pow-wow in the wep bear pow-wow
Wow. So the last post we put up was March 5th, eh? I guess not much has happened this month in our lives.
Or not.
It's crazy to think that in a month we may be the proud parents of the Deuce. Our primary goal for March was to get Claire potty trained; we did not want to have two kids in diapers and figured our time to devote to potty training would be negligible once the Deuce arrived. For a while we had targeted Kate's spring break - March 13-22 - to be potty training days. We started on Sunday and it became immediately clear that Claire has a bladder of steel; she would hold it... and hold it... and hold it until, hours after she seemed like she really had to go, relief would finally come, and rarely in her white bear potty (it's got a white bear on it), or as she calls it in Claire-ese "wep bear pow-wow." Last Wednesday she (and we) were miserable enough that we went to the doctor, thinking that Claire must be suffering from the not-uncommon urinary tract infection. Turns out there was nothing medically wrong with her; she was just stubborn. Of course taking her out of diapers meant that she could no longer sleep in a crib so Claire had to adjust to that as well. (And by adjusting I mean "not sleeping.") It also meant that we were very tied to our house and have not gotten out too much recently. Lack of sleep and frustration for all of us meant some pretty miserable spring break days, days that Kate needed to be using to prepare lectures, labs, tests and grants, but instead spent comforting Claire (and Will).
By the second weekend there were some glimmers of hope. Claire had decided that homemade pie was a suitable reward for putting "pow-wow in the wep bear pow-wow." That or going to church. Seriously. Sunday night Kate had to find a church service to go to because that's what Claire insisted on. Still, every peeing event was usually preceded by several hours of crying as Claire fought to hold it in.
Finally, today we seem to have had a major breakthrough as several times today Claire pulled down her own pants, sat down herself and successfully went, usually in a time frame measured in minutes, not hours. Hopefully this will continue. Our fingers are crossed.
The only upside to the last ten days has been a requirement that we have pie around to reward Claire (and her parents) and Claire only requires very small pieces of pie...
Sorry. No pictures. Everybody in the pictures would have been sad, frustrated or stuffed full of pie. Until today. There might have been some smiles today.
Or not.
It's crazy to think that in a month we may be the proud parents of the Deuce. Our primary goal for March was to get Claire potty trained; we did not want to have two kids in diapers and figured our time to devote to potty training would be negligible once the Deuce arrived. For a while we had targeted Kate's spring break - March 13-22 - to be potty training days. We started on Sunday and it became immediately clear that Claire has a bladder of steel; she would hold it... and hold it... and hold it until, hours after she seemed like she really had to go, relief would finally come, and rarely in her white bear potty (it's got a white bear on it), or as she calls it in Claire-ese "wep bear pow-wow." Last Wednesday she (and we) were miserable enough that we went to the doctor, thinking that Claire must be suffering from the not-uncommon urinary tract infection. Turns out there was nothing medically wrong with her; she was just stubborn. Of course taking her out of diapers meant that she could no longer sleep in a crib so Claire had to adjust to that as well. (And by adjusting I mean "not sleeping.") It also meant that we were very tied to our house and have not gotten out too much recently. Lack of sleep and frustration for all of us meant some pretty miserable spring break days, days that Kate needed to be using to prepare lectures, labs, tests and grants, but instead spent comforting Claire (and Will).
By the second weekend there were some glimmers of hope. Claire had decided that homemade pie was a suitable reward for putting "pow-wow in the wep bear pow-wow." That or going to church. Seriously. Sunday night Kate had to find a church service to go to because that's what Claire insisted on. Still, every peeing event was usually preceded by several hours of crying as Claire fought to hold it in.
Finally, today we seem to have had a major breakthrough as several times today Claire pulled down her own pants, sat down herself and successfully went, usually in a time frame measured in minutes, not hours. Hopefully this will continue. Our fingers are crossed.
The only upside to the last ten days has been a requirement that we have pie around to reward Claire (and her parents) and Claire only requires very small pieces of pie...
Sorry. No pictures. Everybody in the pictures would have been sad, frustrated or stuffed full of pie. Until today. There might have been some smiles today.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Influenced
It's amazing just how quickly and easily influenced kids really are by videos. Claire doesn't see much (any?) TV but does get to watch the occasional YouTube video of animals, Elmo or other fun things. Recently she's seen a couple clips from the website FloTrack, which features running videos. Claire watched the following "Workout Wednesday" video once or twice and was mesmerized by the jumping.
For several days now she will spend much of the day running laps, pretending to change shoes, running and pretending to jump, pretending to change shoes, running laps etc. If she becomes a heptathlete and needs a different pair of spikes for each event we will know what to blame. I'm just hoping she's not burned out by the time she's three.
Seeing how influential this video has been on Claire's recent actions and behaviors nobody can tell us that kids aren't influenced by what they see on TV!!!!
Note: I wrote this earlier and meant to post it earlier this month, along with video of Claire imitating Carolina. That will come sometime in the future. In the hours that Claire spends sitting on her potty each time she has to go during the last week she has watched this video many, many more times... and still loves it.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Good timing, Claire
All winter Claire showed no signs of wanting to help me out by shoveling snow. The temperature hits 65 degrees and what does she want to do? Pretend to shovel snow.
Oh, well. There's always next year.
Oh, well. There's always next year.
Monday, March 02, 2009
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