Potty Circus

Posted by Vulnadia on Jul 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM This week marks the end of week two of our potty training experience. You see, Kian decided to start all of this officially a week ago this past Monday by announcing over dinner that he had to EEEWWWW!!!! He crossed his legs and grabbed his netherregions to let us know he meant business, which he well and truly did. Since then, I have spent an awful lot of time sitting on the floor of my bathroom waiting for the babies to rotate through their turns on the potty. After a week, I found and cleaned up what we named "The Back-up Potty" and tucked it artfully into the corner of the tiny guest bathroom. Nobody has actually soiled the back-up potty just yet, they like it too much to do that to it! It has helped a tiny bit in easing the tears and frustrations caused by one sibling really having to go and 2 siblings deciding to grow and cultivate a nice case of potty envy. But potty envy has also escalated into cold calculating moves on everybody's parts to be the one who gets to actually occupy the big girl/boy potty and not the back-up potty which was a novelty for about a day. Sometimes, if Kian (the only baby who has actually produced undeniable incontestable proof of potty-knowledge-keeping in mind that siblings often time flush before evidence can be verified) if he dares mention to his siblings what he needs to do, the siblings will actually trump his request for potty and cry for it first before he can do it in English himself. This has led to several incidences of tears and frustrations, poor dear. Then there is the unsettling issues of who gets to actually flush and if it is kosher to flush while the potty is actually being occupied. Poor Kian already has quite an issue with the potty in the first place after Vivienne gave him that swirly for flushing her Madame Alexander dollie that time....so "Whoosh" is not what he prefers to hear or be near. It's enough to scare the S*** out of a guy...which maybe is a good thing when you are potty training...but not funny when you are crying...but good after the fact when everybody cheers....NO I do not encourage this sort of uh, sibling participation in the potty training process...even if they do seem to feel that the end result is appropriate and justifies the means.... Yep, it's a circus here at my house and I am seriously considering moving my computer into the bathroom so I can work easier!