A few months ago when I was giving Oliver a bath I looked at his face and knew he was about to poop. I scooped him up and sat him on the potty just in the knick of time. It was easy to do since he was already naked and so close to the toilet. I remember laughing to myself that my far less than one year old baby had used the toilet. Several weeks ago I started paying attention to when he looked like he was pushing, and I started rushing him to the potty. I have learned exactly which cry he makes when he's about to poop; so I don't even have to see him to be able to tell. I would say in the past 7 days I have changed about 2 messy diapers because all the other days he pooped on the potty. I even managed to get him to the potty on time last night at the YMCA during Nadia and Ian's t-ball class! I am not sure why I never thought to try this with the other two kids, but let me say wiping his bottom with a little bit of toilet paper is not nearly as messy as cleaning up a poopy diaper. I am curious to see if this will help him in the future when it's truly time to work on potty training him. I figure it can't hurt! At some point I think I'm going to bring up the kiddie potty and have him sit on it when he's pooping, but for now I am just helping him sit on the big potty.
A few weeks ago I was starting to make a mental list of goals for the remained of 2013. I will write them in a post sometime in the next week or two, but one of the first that came to my mind was that I wanted Ian to be independent with his toilet skills by the time he turns four (December 12). I figured I should start working toward that sooner rather than later so I started requiring him to put his own underwear and shorts back on after he goes to the bathroom. He completely undresses from the waist down before climbing up on the toilet. He fought me at first over doing it himself, but now the situation is completely reversed in that he gets upset if I try to help him at all. This also has translated to him being more independent with getting himself dressed in the morning and at night when he puts on his pajamas. This means we only have one skill left to work on for him to be totally independent with going to the bathroom, and that's wiping himself after he's pooped. I think we can accomplish that goal over the next four months.
I placed an order with Amazon today because they have a coupon for $5 off any purchase of $25 or more that expires tomorrow. I saw the coupon a couple of days ago, right after I had ordered a few things from Amazon. One thing that was on my list to buy for next summer was a reusable swim diaper for Oliver. Would you believe I only learned those things existed this summer? Silly me. I wish I had known about them since 2009! I've toyed with using cloth diapers for everyday usage, but I've never taken that plunge, but I definitely would have preferred to go that route for swim diapers had I known they existed because swim diapers seem like a huge waste of money as they don't actually absorb any urine, and none of my three kids ever pooped in any of their swim diapers, which is the sole purpose for using a swim diaper. I only bought Oliver one pack this summer because I had swim diapers that Ian hadn't used, but I would rather have bought a cloth swim diaper for him. Next summer I don't plan to buy any disposable swim diapers! If we do have a fourth baby, I don't plan on buying any disposable swim diapers for that child!
The second photo was not posed. Nadia and Ian often hold hands when they're walking together outside. This photo was taken on our way home from the playground this morning. Ian rides in the stroller with Oliver most of the time, but at the very end Nadia and Ian cut across the lawns to our house whereas Oliver stays in the stroller on the road. Nadia is holding the garage door opener in her left hand because she always gets home before Oliver and I do and takes great delight in opening the garage door for everyone.
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