Reason #2 I am glad to be done having kids....

Not that there are more good points and happy reasons that I would still have more kids, but face it- there are reasons to be glad there will be no more babies to raise.

#1 No more sleepless nights- whether they are due to being fat and uncomfortable or due to having a 3 week old infant waking every 3 hours to nurse.

#2 No additional children to potty train.

This is my first real adventure with potty training and it's been started and paused a few times in the last year. I wanted to PT Dylan early, but his speech development, or lack there of, made it difficult. So I put it off. Then I got pregnant again and I'm lazy enough as it is- throw in a human growing inside of me and taking up room and energy and I am not up to washing dishes, let alone potty train an almost 2 year old. Oh, and then came having the baby... yep. Those sleepless nights mentioned in reason #1, they keep you from having energy during the day to do everything else around the house and potty training. Not to mention baby girl was needing me a lot during the day at those early months.

So here we are with baby Riley a whopping six months old! She is doing so well. She sleeps less, but she's not as needy. She sits on her own, entertains herself with toys, doesn't require food every 3 hours. Oh crap, that means it's time to potty train. He's did real well yesterday! My big boy pooped a REAL poop (and by REAL I mean 5" long and solid!) in his potty! He did have some accidents through the day, but when he sat on the potty he went potty! He went so many times yesterday I lost count- but would estimate at about 8. And the thing with Dylan is- he will totally squeeze out whatever he has when he sits! Whether it's one little rabbit turd or a whole teaspoon of pee! He even got on the big potty! He likes to flush.

Today though, we have been stalled again. He has some diarrhea- like liquid kind. Makes me grateful to have hardwood floors because if we had carpet it would be shot. So instead of having the option to run around naked and sit and pee as he likes we are wearing a diaper and I will ask him if he has to potty periodically. Which sucks- he likes the run around naked method and I think he does better with it. It probably doesn't hurt that I give him a DumDum sucker each time he goes :-) Even at 1030p at night....................