Erica's blog: What we have here is a failure to communicate!

The last time I left you Elijah had used the potty once just out of the blue. Well, Friday we had an interesting (all-be-it frightening) event. Friday night it was time for Elijah to go to bed. Beau gave him a bath and I put him to bed. Everything went very well, Elijah was just fine. A few minutes after putting him to bed I sat down to feed Sadie and Beau was sitting with us in the living room. We heard Elijah's door open, he walked out and said "I need to tee tee in the potty" Beau jumped up, said okay, took him into the bathroom. Elijah pulled his pants down, took off his diaper and went in the potty. It was just perfect. Then it happened. Beau said, "Okay, lets pull your pants up and go get your M&M's" Elijah wanted to "tee tee more" and kept trying. Beau tried to explain that you can't just keep going and going. Then, when he tried to get Elijah to put his pants back on Elijah turned into something resembling a wild beast. There was a lot of screaming, crying and a few thumps and threats. Finally, I told Beau to let him stand there and try. I had this conflict that we've been trying to talk him into using the potty for a year and now we're punishing him because he wants to. Well, we ended up having to wrestle him into bed - twice. He finally fell asleep. Saturday he wanted nothing to do with the potty then Saturday night the same thing happened. We were able to distract him early enough that the fit didn't happen, but that makes 3 times now that he's gone in the potty. I've learned a few things though:
1. He will only go if its his idea (I can't figure out how to entice him to go any other time).
2. If he's tired you're fighting a loosing battle (nap time is our friend).
3. You can't explain to a 2 year old that you can't just keep going and going.

So...at least it looks like we're heading in the right direction, it looks like there may be a few bumps along the way, though.

Here are some pictures from Friday and Saturday.

The kids found some time to play before they got dressed. Elijah was laying by Sadie telling her, "We're almost neckoed Sadie!"

(Don't worry, Sadie had on a diaper too)

We went on a walk Friday morning and this dog went with us. After returning home Elijah wanted to give him (who we named Cody, though I think its a girl) a drink. Then we playing in the garage for a while. It was a good dog, I don't know who it belongs to.

Saturday Beau went tubing with the youth group so Sadie, Elijah and I went to Mom and Dad's for the day to try out the new pool. We had a great time...its so nice.

The "beach entry" part of the pool...