Hi all,
Another 1 lb down this morning - only about a zillion to go.
Boys home as the school is a polling station today. Mum has dyed my hair and despite not leaving it on for anywhere near the time they said, I think its too dark. Mum doesn't agree and thinks its nice, but then she dyes her hair every couple of weeks and is used to it.
New clothes have arrived and love them all but haven't had time to try them on yet. Only problem was they sent the wrong size shoes, right size on box, but wrong size actual shoes. They are sending me another pair for tomorrow though, which is good because I love them. Am actually very impressed standard delivery is 4.99 and always next day unless ordered after 4.00pm. Ordered them just after lunch yesterday and they were here at 8.30 this morning.
Mssparkle I have been just the same with the falling back to sleep and then feeling groggy when I wake up later. I wasn't even managing to take the boys to school myself until recently because of exactly that problem. Since then I've been making myself get up after the first feed at 6.30/7.00 and have to say I do feel much better for it. I think its because dd goes back to sleep and the boys aren't up yet so I have half an hour to drink a coffee or take a shower and just be me rather than Mummy for a short while before the day starts properly. I find it quite grounding.
Books sorry to hear of potty training troubles. Sorry, I've forgotton how old your ds is. We did both my boys quite late really and avoided the potty thing altogether as neither of them wanted to go on it. They both went straight to to toilet at about 2 years 10/11 months and we barely had any accidents with either of them. I found it best not to ask if they needed to go, but instead to have a sort of rough routine of times to take them anyway. If you ask they invariably say they don't need to go as there is always something more interesting to do. If they went on the toilet and didn't do anything we just tended to hang a couple of minutes, then said "oh well never mind, tell me if you need it in a few minutes" and then take them again a short while later whether they asked or not. I think we started out taking them roughly every half an hour and then extended it by quarter of an hour every couple of days or so. We also took them at obvious times like before and after a meal, before and after nap, before we went out, as soon as we arrived somewhere etc. I think the most important thing with my two was not making a fuss if they didn't do anything on the toilet as its not great if they get in the habit of sitting there trying to squeeze a wee out every half an hour if they don't need to go. We didn't do a reward chart as we felt the less fuss the better, but we did praise enthusiastically.
My sil is just training her ds at the moment. He is 2 years 5 months and she is really struggling with him as well. For me personally I found that leaving it later worked really well as they were really ready for it and it was all done with the minimum fuss and upset. We waited until they were dry after their daytime naps and took that as a cue they were able to hold it.
As for the regression thing, it could be regression I suppose, but with a boy its more likely to be laziness! They are devils for not wanting to interrupt what they are doing to go to the toilet. (Believe me, my two still leave it right to the last minute and they are 5 and 7 - other mums tell me their boys are exactly the same!) That's why its easier to tell them its time to go rather than asking if they need to go.
Right, better get back to mammoth house cleaning - bah humbug!