Jubilee had trouble falling asleep tonight. She called out to me at some point and explained that she’s afraid of the monsters. She knows monsters aren’t real, but her mind was full of some images she remembered from a story, and naturally the emotions were real too. Then she told me, “My brain is a smart brain because it thinks of things even though they were a long time ago.”
Archive for January, 2010
I don’t want to jinx this, but I was very excited that Maddie had dry underwear and pull-ups all day. She still rarely tells us that she has to go, but she did something in the toilet almost every time I had her sit down. She was even dry during her nap. Yay!
To celebrate, we told her she could have ONE prize for having dry underwear all day. We gave her a single M&M. She was tickled pink! I know this doesn’t sound like a big prize, but we don’t want to set up huge expectations and have to meet them every time. And at what point do we stop with the M&M’s? Maybe we’ll take her to ice cream or something as the final prize.
What are we going to do for Angel? She’s not big on sweets. We’re considering renting an inflatable jump house (her favorite thing to do) and let her jump around for a few minutes at the end of a successful potty training day. (=