Night Night Taylor

Taylor has been going through many milestones this month. She's doing GREAT at potty training. Staying dry about 95% of the time at night and about 70% of the time during the day. Yes there is a lot of "parent/teacher training" involved since she doesn't tell us all the time that she's got to go. But at least she isn't resistent to trying in many different places (yet). Some children have aversions to public restrooms, some will only go on their potty seat, some only in 1 specific bathroom at home, etc. Not Tay. She's an equal opportunity potty girl. :-) I'm hoping at least by the middle of October we'll get her wearing her big girl undies during the school day. She seems very excited about them as we picked up a package of Princess ones, Arial ones and Minnie Mouse ones. They have been washed and are ready for her use...next month (keep your fingers crossed)!

The second major hurdle is to get her OUT of OUR bed! I know we've been really lax and it hasn't helped that Nana and Papa co-sleep with the kids when they stay over there with them. I guess you pick and choose your battles. She'll sleep in her big girl bed reluctantly waiting for us to finish in the kitchen or office but then we have to move her with us to our bed or she'll wake up at 2am and come find us SCREAMING! Not something we really want at that hour when we have to wake up 3 hours later. I know...we're lazy! However, by this time we would have pushed a LOT harder because I normally would be pregnant around this age with the next one. Obviously, that is not the case here. No bun in the oven.

So tonight we made Taylor go into her own bed...as you can tell I'm trying to stay up as late as possible so she'll at least get a few hours in her own bed. But the girl kept coming out and checking up on me. Every time she did this big bro Ant-on-ney would come out of the boy's room and check up on her. So sweet bro Ant-on-ney gave her his Carter to sleep with and would be her "tucker inner". AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! So sweet, but the poor boy looked so sad for her too. I thought he was going to shed a few tears for her when she was crying in my office pleading with me to "slweep wit me momma!" After about 3 tuck ins by Ant-on-ney, I suspect she's finally off to dream land. Every so often though, I hear the rattle of Carter's internal rattle so we'll see when I head back in there in about 30 minutes to take her back to "your own bed" (Momma's bed). Where's Jackson in all of this??? SLEEPING!