Potty Time

Guess what??? It is potty time! My son has shown interest in the potty for quite awhile now. He likes to say potty and sit down on it, then wipe immediately, flush and wash his hands. He was just missing one important step… what you do while you are sitting there. Well yesterday for the first time he actually went pee pee on the potty. Woooo Whooo! I was a little surprised. They always say that boys take longer and he just turned 2 so I wasn’t expecting this for atleast another 6 months or so. By no means do I think this is the end of the journey to diaper freedom but it is a start. So wish us luck with our pottying future.

A 2 year old and a bottle of No. 5

What happens when you give a 2 year old something breakable?..They break it!
This past weekend was Grandparents Day. Well I didn’t know this at the time but it is important to the story.
We were visiting my sister and her husband for the weekend. The "We" was my son, me and my mother.
So I am in the living room and the rest of the crew were outside when I see through the curtains my son run for the door and try to get inside. He looks a little distraut by his actions so I go to open the door to see what is the matter. My mother and sister are just dying in shock and laughter. You know the disbelief you get when you want to cry but you have to laugh.
Well to fill in the gaps. My sister heard on the TV that morning that it was grandparents day. She had a bottle of Chanel No. 5 that she had planned to give our mother at some point. She decided that this would be the perfect occasion. So then she thinks wouldn’t it be cute if my son gave it to her. So she hands him the boxed bottle and says give this to Granny. They walk outside and he proceeds to throw it to her. It lands at her feet. Broken.. in the box. So as they are trying to recover, yours truly unwraps the bottle and tries to save the precious liquid inside. My sister and mother thought that this was just a hilarious turn of events, but I just felt sick with guilt.
So we save a decent amount of the liquid and decide to go scour the city to find a replacement bottle to put the contents in so it wont be a total waste. Several hours and several stores later we decide on medicine dropper bottles. So she ended up with 5 bottles of No. 5 in various sizes. Lesson from this….
Don’t get a 2 year old to hand something breakable to someone, no matter what the thought is behind it!