Say what?
June 12, 2009
My morning: The usual morning craziness that ensues when trying to get 3 boys out the door before 7:30am. Crying baby, slightly cranky toddler and sleepy husband. But, by 7:31 we have all managed to slosh through the puddle that used to be our walkway and settled ourselves into the car (each of us dripping wet from the pouring rain of course). I drop boy #1 off at work and after kisses and hugs goodbye, we slosh off to day care.
The rain continues to pound as I walk around to the passenger’s side of the car to unbuckle Xander. I pull him out of the car and instruct him to walk towards the door, explaining that it’s raining and he’s getting wet. Then I walk back around to the driver’s side and pull Parker’s seat out of the car, and stumble over Xander in the process as he has completely ignored my instructions and for some inexplicable reason thought it would be more fun to stand on my heels.
I get Xander pointed towards the door and start hauling Parker (all 15+ pounds of baby and 8 pounds of car seat…) in the same direction. I finally get Parker under the awning and turn, expecting to see Xander right behind me. Nope, he’s examining rocks in the driveway. With a glare at the sky, I trudge back into the rain to collect my distracted son. The slow poke finally makes it to the door and I pull all three of us inside, shaking off as much water as I can in the process.
I sign the boys in, drop off their check, and Xander opens the door to the green room. We are greeted by another little boy who tells Xander “Guess what! You can watch the whores movie with me today!” I pause, blink, and ask the little boy, “the what movie?” He looks at me like I must be a deaf 90 year old woman and patiently (for a 4 year old) replies “the whores movie”. Xander and I are still standing in our wet rain coats at the threshold of the door. I’m still holding 20+ pounds of fussy Parker in one hand, so I nudge Xander into the room.
I don’t know anything about this kid’s home life, but I’m pretty sure his mom wouldn’t pack him off to school with porn in his backpack, so I wait (somewhat) patiently for more detail about this “whores” movie. Finally, my thick head makes the connection, whores = horse. The boy jogs off to tell more kids about his “whores” movie and I go about settling Xander and Parker and thinking how very glad I am that I won’t be around to watch a movie later today…
I know most babies are supposed to start rolling over sometime around 4 or 5 months. Xander was 7 months old before he figured it out and boy was I stressed out that he had some sort of delay betweens months 4 and 7! Of course he doesn’t – he is just fine, but you couldn’t convince my “new mom” head that everything was going to be ok.
I swear we really don’t watch much television with Xander. Parker only catches glimpses every now and then – we’re still trying to limit his viewing intake before he hits two. With Xander, he often watches one episode of 
Potty training continues… Xander is nearly perfect during his waking hours at day care, and often does pretty well in the evenings with us. We have encountered an interesting challenge though. Xander has terrible aim! I’m new to this whole potty training business, so I have no clue how most boys start out. I can’t tell you if it’s typical for boys to sit when learning and then learn to stand and pee later on, or if they usually start out standing and skip the whole sitting phase.
We have been putting potty training off for a whie now. Occasionally we’ll ask Xander if he wants to sit on the potty, and every time he gets that quite, concentrated look on his face, we’ll encourage him to poop on the potty, but usually by the time we catch him it’s too late… We’ve tried the reward method, and the peer pressure method, and we were pretty much just waiting for warmer weather and more free time so that we could devote some effort to convincing Xander that big boy potties are much cooler than diapers. Luckily for us, our day care also decided that Xander is ready to start full on potty training. Part of the motivation comes from the day care’s plan to move Xander and the rest of his “crew” up to the next room at the end of the summer. Currently the Purple Room is full, but when the kids in the Blue Room “graduate” (into kindergarden) at the end of the summer, space will open up in the Purple Room. However, one of the requirements in the Purple Room is that you be potty trained. So, the last two stragglers in Xander’s room (him and one other boy) are getting potty trained this summer.
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