My 2nd pregnancy -- DEFINITELY different than the first.
The first -- no morning sickness at all! I was just hungry all day, all the time. :)
This time around, I've had morning -- not so much sickness, but wooziness -- all day, every day.
I'm officially 3 months -- wonder if the uneasy stomach will subside.
The doctor told me to make sure i have something in my stomach by eating small snacks and meals all day long -- not helping.
An even stranger experience for me this time around -- what i can't stand to taste!
Mint DISGUSTS me right now. I thew out all my gum ... and i had to buy cinnamon-flavored toothpaste!
Also, i can't stand the taste of bottled water, which is all i ever drink!! -- Drank. lol.
Yeah -- i suddenly love the taste of tap water.
I don't understand it... any of it.
Yeeeeaaah.
Momma needs to slow her roll.... lol.
Ok, so Alexandra's got going #1, down -- no problem. We started giving her little stickers to stick on the back of her hand when she goes. She didn't even need them.
#2 - that's going to have to wait a bit.
Well actually, my hubby claims Alex DID go #2 when he was watching her.... walked into the bathroom, slamed the door shut behind her, and went.
Hmmmm. I have yet to witness the amazing event. :)
I saw Alex had to go #2 yesterday -- the pushing, and all else related -- so i "coaxed" her to her potty.
Ugh.
I think i created a stoppage. She wouldn't go!!!
Fortunately it all came out when she woke up from her nap later on.
Ah well. 1 outa 2 ain't bad.
Who knew such strides could be made in just 24 hours?
Not only did Alexandra pee-pee in her little potty.. on her own.. on day-2 of "potty training" (i guess we've started... lol!) -- she actually AKSED to go yesterday afternoon!
I was actually changing Alex's diaper when she blurts out, "Pee pee!"
"You have to pee-pee?" I asked.
"Yah!" she smiles.
"Do you want to use your new potty?"
"YAH!"
So, Alex walked her naked little butt over to the potty, opened the lid again, sat down and peed right away this time!
Not so perfect when it comes to her poopy... Oy.
Yesterday it was obvious she had to go #2, so she "played" on her potty -- up and down, up and down, up and down -- for like 10 minutes.
Nada.
Suddenly, she goes tearing off to the living room where the dog was.
What else do you do but hurry to get a diaper and chase after her ... but in that short amount of time, Alex returned to the bathroom and says, "Lala pee-pee .. Lala pee-pee!"
Well, "Lala" (Lola) is our dog.
"Sooooo show me where Lola 'pee-peed.'"
Off she trots -- with remnants of #2 on her little butt -- to the living room ...
Lying near Lola, are 2 small mounds of baby poop. HAHAHAH!
Oh boy.
Well, at least she told on herself, i guess....
And after all-- she usually runs to hide in the living room when she goes #2.....
Mental note for next time: Let her go #2 in the bathroom without an adult hovering over her. LOL....
OH .... MY ..... GOODNESS.
I was so excited, I almost peed!
Alexandra used her new potty ALL BY HERSELF!!!
I mean, i had to show her how to sit on it from the front instead of trying to swing her leg over the entire potty like a man flipping his leg over a horse in an old Western movie ... but other than that -- SHE DID GREAT!!!
See ..... I had bought Alex a potty some time ago -- very plain, white, no frills -- that matched our bathrooms.
She would "play sit" on it ... occasionally.... but that was it.
I just thought she either wasn't interested, or it made her nervous.
I never pushed her, but i explained to her how "the potty" works every chance i got.
Well apparently she's been listening.
For Christmas, I bought Alex a new and improved potty -- that makes a little "magic wand" sound when you "flush" the potty lever, and it has a lid she can lift ....
Hubby made fun of me, btw -- buying a toilet for our baby for Christmas. Whatevs.
Like any new toy, she's played with it when she happenes to remember it's there ... but nothing more --
UNTIL LAST NIGHT !!!!
Just before a bath, I asked a naked Alex if she wanted to use her new potty.
That itty-bitty walked right over to it.. lifted the lid .. sat down (with a little help) and started playing with the wand-sounding potty handle, just a-laughin' like there was no tomorrow.
I offered her a towel to wrap around her while she sat -- didn't want it.
After about 45 seconds, Alex stood up. I said, "All done pee pee?"
She said nothing -- just sat back down and starting playing with the handle and giggling again..... when suddenly -- what sounded like a broken water spicket bursting at the seams.....
WE HAVE SPLASHDOWN!!!
I was so excited! Started cheering!!! Startled Alex a little because the spraying water sound stopped for a second... then she realize I was cheering for her ... lol .... and she finished!
Totally emptied her bladder in her little pottie, then stood up ... i gave her some toilette paper which she used to rub her butt (i helped her do it the right way) ... and finally she joinined my celebrations, throwing her arms up in the air yelling, "YAAAAAAY!" while running around the bathroom.
It was a beautiful moment i wish i had my cell phone cam nearby to capture! :(
Now if she'll only do it when she has to go #2..........!
Now try explaining that to a 21-month-old! HA!
I tell Alexandra -- especially when she wants "up" but i can't deal with her kicking and fidgeting -- that there's a baby in my tummy.
....Silence .....
Blank look on her face ......
Then she says, " 'Gain?" ..
Translation: Say it again mommy because you make absolutely no sense right now.
I try all different approaches..
Alex likes to flip through my cell phone pictures of her -- yes, all 500 of them -- so she came across a sonogram photo of the baby-to-be.
"That?" she asked.
I said, very excitedly, "That's a picture of the new, teeeeny-tiny baby in my tummy!".
After telling her that a few times, Alex started using her high-pitched "baby" voice to say "BABY!" every time she comes across that picture.
Not sure she gets it yet, but i think we've broken ground!
I've had it. And it's only just beginning.... lol.
Alexandra has decided to not only ignore my do's and don't's ... she defies me while laughing!
Unreal. I just don't get it.
I tell Alex to stop stepping up on the arm of the couch and launching herself like a flying squirrel onto the couch seat ... and she laughs, doing it again and again... until i get over to her ... then she stops and sits (still laughing, of course) ... and scrambles back up on the couch arm to jump again as soon as i walk away.
Daddy sees her do the same thing and says something -- Alex covers her eyes or starts crying... and doesn't do it anymore -- as long as he's around.
WHYYYYYYYYY ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Annoying.
She knew something wasn't right.
Alexandra stood there yesterday afternoon -- staring at this dead, smushed frog in our driveway.
Alex kept asking me, "Dat?" and pointing at the frog. She asked, like, 15 times ... like she usually does when she's trying to learn and remember something.
Knowing that Alex knows what a live frog looks like ... I explained she was staring at a frog in the driveway, but this frog was dead.
She didn't like that too much.
Alex didn't cry or fuss at all, which is good.
She did, though, keep backing up away from the dead frog as she asked again and again what it was. Backed up, right into me... and would walk in a wide circle around the dead frog any time we were out there.
Guess that's as good a first lesson on death as any!
