Potty Training, Day 2

Tom got Katie up this morning and her diaper was dry! He said she really didn’t want to pee in the big potty, but once she sat down she peed and peed! Yay!

8:35 I told Katie she had to pee if she wanted to go to the bus stop with Owen. And she did! She had to take her lunchbox. 🙂

When we got home, she wanted to play outside and do chalk.

She ran in a few times to pee but they were all false alarms. She wanted to ride her bike, so I told her she could after she peed again. So she came in about 20 minutes later saying she had to pee, didn’t pee, but tells me she peed in the grass. Yay…but no. I didn’t see it so no sticker…and no bike ride.

11:40 She’s very good about sitting on the potty without any direction. This trip earned her a new book!

1:00 Katie just peed in the potty and I said I was proud of her. She looked at me, did a curtsy, and said a drawn out thank you. Where do they get this stuff?

She continued to pee in the potty all afternoon—assuming each time she’d get to ride her bike. She finally gave up on asking for her bike but still kept peeing in the potty! She even earned another book!

I had treats set up for every five pees…and she filled the sheet and just kept sticking them on.

And then when we were outside eating dinner, she had to go in and pee. She even emptied it into the toilet herself. 🙂 Then she said she had to pee again and went inside. Owen happened to be inside at the same time and came out singing “Katie’s pooping in the potty!”

Wait. What?

I’d been reminding/asking randomly all day and she just kept saying she didn’t have to go yet. I believed her, but I also kind of thought she’d try to hide. But now she just went on her own? I raced inside and…yep! She pooped in her potty!! WOOHOO!

So daddy took her to get a special treat (a milkshake from Burger King).

Day two is in the books and she did amazing! Let’s hope it continues!

Mornings are always interesting.

There’s usually crying by Katie at some point, the kids playing nice, doors slamming, arguing between the kids over something/anything/nothing, sometimes yelling on my end…and then there’s this.

I had finished my shower and gotten dressed and it was quiet. Too quiet.

Owen was reading Katie the book that Tom had started the previous night.

Cue my heart melting. 🙂

I think he’s teaching himself to read.

Because we certainly aren’t doing much with him—he rarely wants to read books with us anymore and I don’t see him ever reading books…but the other night, I opened a sight words app on the iPad just to see if he knew any…and he BLEW through most of them with ease:

run up can she the you he red go my this like
look and said move to come is play will big
on funny little ran good of are three down not
one have away at saw yellow here

So then I opened another sight words app that actually had sentences…and he got most of them right, too. Sentences like:

Do you want to play with me?
I saw Santa Claus.
The girl gave the kitten a hug.
I know how to cut paper.
I don’t like to drink milk.
My toy is here.
The rabbit will eat the grass.
What shall we eat this morning?
My dog ran away.

Of course he had a few stumbles on some words, but overall he impressed the shit out of me. (The app gives grade levels for the sight words/sentences and there were a variety of K-third grade level.)

How is he doing this? He mostly plays games on the iPad but we do make him do ABCMouse—so is the 15 minutes a day he’s been doing that responsible?! We’re just flummoxed.

Papa + the iPad, matching outfits, a ball, and Star Wars

Owen showing Papa ABCMouse on the iPad.

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The boys in matching outfits courtesy of Grannie Lin. 🙂

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Kicking the ball around.

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Showing Papa his Lego Star Wars book. Owen saw me with the camera and immediately gave me a good smile. I love that he’s somewhat trained. 🙂

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Then we had to have Papa look up for a good picture, too!
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Owen reading…and not.

So this morning he wanted to read his book on his own.

He did pretty good again.

But.

We tried to have him read tonight and he seemingly couldn’t read one single word! What the—?!?!

We know he guesses at words when he’s not sure (instead of sounding them out) but he wasn’t even doing that tonight. The word was can and he’s saying fish or something. WHAAAAA?!

So, this new skill isn’t quite as locked down as I’d magically hoped. 🙂

Wait. Owen can read?!

Owen pretty much read this entire page to me on his own.

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Wait. What?!

When did this happen? We haven’t practiced much reading at all! He’s been doing ABCMouse but I don’t think there’s much (if any) actual reading involved. But he probably read about half the book!

We asked him where he learned how to read and this time it was “at book school next to the DC store” (with DC being where we’re moving).

I’m just floored. Thrilled, but floored.