Earlier this afternoon Rick had to head out the door for a shift in the ER at the Payson Hospital.... It is now 9:30pm and a lot has happened since then!
We worked in Kimbri's room for a while. I'm starting to pack some things that we won't need between now and the time we move. I propped Garrett up on my body pillow on the floor and put Kimbri in her crib with a bin of toys. I had to put her in the crib cause I didn't want her accidentally stepping or falling on Garrett!
After a while Garrett took a short nap so Kimbri and I read books together. I always have to take advantage of time that Garrett is asleep to give Kimbri some one-on-one time with mommy:) I enjoy it probably as much as she does. I love having her sit up on my lap and reading books with her. She definitely loves books!
A while later, when Garrett woke up is when chaos began. Oh boy! Garrett started crying and of course he was probably hungry since he had just taken a nap and before that had spent time laying on the floor in Kimbri's room. By the time I went back to our bedroom to get Garrett from his nap, Kimbri was playing in the back part of the house, so I decided I would just sit on the end of our bed and nurse Garrett so I could keep an eye on Kimbri at the same time.
All of the sudden Kimbri came running around the corner and lifted the lid up to her little potty seat (we haven't officially started potty training yet but we have a potty sitting in the back hallway to get her used to it), anyway, she lifted the lid up and then came running into the bedroom, trying with all her might to get her shirt off.
Side note: The few times that she has actually went to the bathroom in the potty, she for some reason likes to be in the nude.
Anyway, getting a shirt off a little girl one-handed is pretty easy. However then she ran back to the potty and was trying to get her pants and diaper off. I very quickly realized that she actually did need to go potty and that she herself was realizing it too! I hurried and set Garrett down, who was still nursing, so he was NOT happy about having his meal interrupted. I hurried to take off Kimbri's pants and diaper, because doing that one-handed is a lot more difficult, and she sat down on the toilet.
I ran back into the bedroom and picked up Garrett and went back to the hallway with Kimbri, sat down on the floor and started nursing Garrett, while keeping an eye on Kimbri, this time while she just sat on the toilet.
Well, she for some reason decided to stand up. I peeked inside the potty thinking that she must've gone since she stood up. Nope. So, I put her back down on the toilet, not wanting her to have an accident on the floor. Then it starting going through my mind that maybe she didn't need to go potty, because her diaper was pretty wet when I took it off.
So right after sitting her back down on the toilet, she decided to get back up. I again tried to get her to sit back down on the toilet, while still trying to nurse Garrett. Well this time she obviously had another plan in mind. She squatted right next to the potty and started peeing!!!! I tried so hard to get her back to the potty but the damage was already done. Wouldn't sitting on the pot be soooo much easier than squatting next to it?? Ha. I guess not for a 20 month old.
After finishing her business... on the floor... she stood back up, turned around, and stared at the pee on the floor. Meanwhile I was panicking because I could read her mind on what her next move would be... to stick her hands in it and splash it all around. And it was not just a few drops, it was like a full on puddle! I had to stop Garrett from nursing, again. Poor guy! And I gently plopped him on the floor in our bedroom and ran into the kitchen to get some paper towels, all the while trying to get Kimbri to not touch the puddle of pee. Surprisingly after the first try touching it, she didn't try again. She just stood there, watching me act all panicked, running from one room to the other. Garrett was crying so hard, so I ran back into the bedroom with the clean paper towels in hand, picked him up and went back to the hallway. I bent over trying to clean up the pee, while holding a baby, Kimbri watching. Then all the sudden she decided she wants to help clean it up! And of course she grabs the soaking wet paper towel full of pee, trying to help. Haha. By this point I had to just set poor Garrett down again and get the pee cleaned up and get a diaper on Kimbri.
Wow.
By this point I'm just laughing in disbelief at what had just happened in such a short amount of time. (I feel like it just took me forever to explain what happened... but really if only took a few minutes for this to all happen).
I got it all cleaned up, washed my hands, picked Garrett back up and walked into the front room, where Kimbri wandered off to, in only a diaper, and I sat down on the couch and continued to nurse Garrett.
Then I just had to laugh out loud again, thinking to myself how this will be funny to look back on. It will be a fun memory of being a mother of two young children, sitting on the floor nursing a baby, while trying to help the toddler to pee in her little potty.
Even though it's hard sometimes, I love making memories like these, with my precious little kids. They are such a joy in my life and I'm so grateful I get to be their mommy!
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The rest of the night has been just a tad bit calmer. By the time I got done feeding Garrett, Kimbri was ready to eat. How did I know? She was off to the kitchen and getting what she pleased out of the refrigerator.
Strawberries and pickles.
I gave her some strawberries but decided to save the pickles for another day. Oh how that girl loves her pickles! She hadn't finished her yogurt from earlier so I gave her that and some crackers. Lately I've been trying to let her be more independent while eating, instead of just feeding her myself. So, since she only had a diaper on, from the incident earlier, I put a bib on her, handed her a spoon and the cup of blueberry yogurt, and let her go to town.
She loved it... but after a while she decided to plop her whole hand into the yogurt cup and shook her hand, flinging yogurt all over the place. Ha Ha Ha... I'm getting good at cleaning up messes :)
At least she was enjoying herself!
