Today someone small in our family is still in the midst of potty training. It is a trial my friends. I have of course tried to take the advice of all the parenting magazines and keep my cool when "things" go badly. But I tell you what, nothing tries my patience like poop on stuff. After getting a little fired up today I was apologizing to my girls. The conversation went something like this:
Me: I'm sorry I got upset.
Malan: Mom, you need medicine.
Sometimes I wonder.
Malan: Mom, you need medicine.
Sometimes I wonder.
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I think this whole medical school thing is rubbing off on her. ;)
oh sad! i do have a low tolerance for poop on anything. i don't remember how i do it but i can say i haven't had too many "logs rolling loose" if you know what i mean. good luck!!!!!
lolol that is great! malan is the sweetest girl i know! kids are too funny! i think jane and maddux plot their shinanigans together in nursery for us!! we've got the potty thing going on over here too, funny how often the actual potty is actually NOT involved! LOL Love ya!! :)
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There really must be something wrong with you, 'cause I love poop on stuff. We're training, too, and the other day Ellie walked into the room holding a HUGE piece of poo and tried to hand it to our friend James. He almost took it too! Until he realized what it was. Ha! It really is funny (the painful kind of funny) in retrospect.
I too hate poo.
Yes, it's true.
I really do.
Would you use the medicine to clean up the poop?
This post reminds me of a story:
I said, "I have issues." One of my girls said, "What are issues?" Another girl said, "Jenny's been married to dad this long and you don't know what issues are?"
I am laughing not at you, but with you! Well, you are not laughing now, but you will be. I found poop on the strangest things in our home at one point or another while training Jacob. Jannie is so funny! I love that she told you that you need medicine. Jakie says I need a time out when I loose it. Sadly, he is right! Good luck. P.S. Now you see why we waited until 4 for Jake! It starts to be like adult poo by then so stick with it!
Jack tells me "when I'm grown up you won't have to wipe me anymore." But 4 used to grown-up, now it's Daddy's age. Oh, guess what? Potty issues are the joy that just keeps on giving. Cole pooped in his pants SIX TIMES in kindergarten. I dreaded the phone ringing. He never had an accident at preschool, the Y, church or in stores. But his teacher and the kids in the bathroom scared him and he wouldn't go at school on the toilet. Ugh.
Well I don't know if I agree that you need medicine...that would mean I for sure do. I definitely dont handle poop on things well!!! This morning...1st ants ALL over my kitchen sink and counter...me freaking out...so gross...why today...trying to get ready for girls camp tomorrow...then..."Mom Madi got poop on the wall!" Are you freaking kidding me?! Nice morning.
Oh, this made me giggle. I love little ones and their simple remedies for life. I do recall a fad of "happy pills" going around in local supermarkets...I believe they were "prescription" jellybeans. Maybe that'll do ya. :)
p.s. finally took the plunge (um no pun intended on the potty training there) and changed our url address. Thanks for your coaching!
www.somuchhappyness.blogspot.com
AND we even went into a photo-booth. Best childhood flashbacks ever. Now I have a handy-dandy bookmark with my babe on it. :) Keep posting those fab fab ideas.
this post made us both laugh until we cried and then all the comments made us cry laugh some more. Ellie handing the guest a big poo and Edith's poo poem were some of my faves. oh why oh why is poo so funny. just think of it as you collecting funny poo stories - maybe that will help. you are so funny. good luck.
Ha ha. From the mouth of babes.
Good luck with the potty training.
Huh-larious. And I truly think that poop is the bain of parenthood.
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