Saturday, May 19, 2007
This is the Year
Ty turned five on Thursday. He said he needed more time, and will learn the names of his sisters when he's five. 2 days down, 363 to go. I hope he proves to be a faster learner at school.
Great Minds Think Alike
The girls are making GREAT progress with their potty training and are now in "big girl underwear" full time now, with the exception of naptime and nighttime. There are, of course, still accidents but we're definitely at the point of no return with diapers.
Last week one of the girls went #2 during naptime (when they all wear pull-ups) and proceeded to take off her diaper before I got upstairs. If you've read my previous posts then you know what happened next. This time there was evidence that they tried to clean up the mess that they made based on my findings in their trash can. Now, in the past the girls will ALWAYS rat out the offender, "Dayne pooped", "Tara pooped", or "Dru pooped", but this time none of them wanted to take the fall. I walked into the room and asked "Girls, what happened in here?!?!?!" and they all replied, in stereo, "Dolly pooped!"
Not having time to argue about it, I brought them all straight to the bathtub and continued to grill them. I really didn't care who pooped, I just wanted to see who was going to be the first to send her sister up the river. But I couldn't break them! Dolly pooped. That's their story and their stickin' to it! In case their word wasn't going to be enough (I was a bit sceptical that the Dolly had pooped) they had actually taken the clothes off one of their Cabbage Patch dolls and smeared poop on her bum!!! I had to overlook the grossness factor of this and focus on the shear brilliance of my 2 year old daughters. That's impressive, don't you think? They still have a limited vocabulary but were able to communicate well enough with each other to devise this wicked scheme. And they've been unflappable in their follow through. I asked them for a couple days afterward, one on one, "Did Dayne poop?", "No Dolly pooped". "Did Tara poop?", "No, Dolly pooped". "Did you poop?", "No, Dolly pooped". Impressive.
I'm a bit terrified by this, because if this is how crafty they are at 2 years old what are they going to try and pull when they're 16?!
Or maybe the evidence speaks for itself. Maybe Dolly really did poop. I'll never know for sure because these girls are not going to break.
Stay tuned for their antics in 14 years. Yikes!
Last week one of the girls went #2 during naptime (when they all wear pull-ups) and proceeded to take off her diaper before I got upstairs. If you've read my previous posts then you know what happened next. This time there was evidence that they tried to clean up the mess that they made based on my findings in their trash can. Now, in the past the girls will ALWAYS rat out the offender, "Dayne pooped", "Tara pooped", or "Dru pooped", but this time none of them wanted to take the fall. I walked into the room and asked "Girls, what happened in here?!?!?!" and they all replied, in stereo, "Dolly pooped!"
Not having time to argue about it, I brought them all straight to the bathtub and continued to grill them. I really didn't care who pooped, I just wanted to see who was going to be the first to send her sister up the river. But I couldn't break them! Dolly pooped. That's their story and their stickin' to it! In case their word wasn't going to be enough (I was a bit sceptical that the Dolly had pooped) they had actually taken the clothes off one of their Cabbage Patch dolls and smeared poop on her bum!!! I had to overlook the grossness factor of this and focus on the shear brilliance of my 2 year old daughters. That's impressive, don't you think? They still have a limited vocabulary but were able to communicate well enough with each other to devise this wicked scheme. And they've been unflappable in their follow through. I asked them for a couple days afterward, one on one, "Did Dayne poop?", "No Dolly pooped". "Did Tara poop?", "No, Dolly pooped". "Did you poop?", "No, Dolly pooped". Impressive.
I'm a bit terrified by this, because if this is how crafty they are at 2 years old what are they going to try and pull when they're 16?!
Or maybe the evidence speaks for itself. Maybe Dolly really did poop. I'll never know for sure because these girls are not going to break.
Stay tuned for their antics in 14 years. Yikes!
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