Yet Another Milestone

It's official. You are now able to undress yourself (yes!)

I figure, if you're waking up completely naked, it's probably a safe bet that I can say with confidence you know how to get your clothes off, even if I've never witnessed it myself ; )

Everyone Poops

Your teacher Mrs. McIntyre has been sick so we made a card today and took it over to the other end of the neighborhood and you dropped it in her mailbox. I think you miss her at school and I wonder if that has something to do with you not going potty since the normal swing of things there must be a bit different with her gone. You wouldn't go at all on Tuesday, but still came home dry!
( :•O) You still won't say "Mrs." but you say "McIntyre" a lot. McIntyre sad, McIntyre head hurt, McIntyre sick.
Anyway, on the way to her house, there is still a lot of construction, even though it's a nice straight shot now that the road is paved. They're putting in water lines today, so there was a big trench and dirt on the side of the road. You said "sucio" and I thought... "that must be something in Spanish," I didn't recognize his 'Jack-a-neese' as we lovingly call his little dialect when we can't make out the word, but this was very clear. Very clear and not English. I took a shot, "in English?" and Jack said, "Dirty!" ah-ha! You're teaching me Spanish. Isn't that great? My two year old, teaching me a new language. You're something else.

Then you had to go and top it....
You pointed down at the dirt clumps and said, "ever-buddy POOPS!"

2 minutes

You crack me up. I'm always trying to give you the "two minute warning" before we switch gears for anything and today, when I came to your room to let you know that we would be going potty before lunch, you told me,
"Two minutes, mommy, two minutes".

I'm posting this photo too, so that I can remember how sweet you could be to each other. Now that your sister is taking the stairs, you are always right there to put a hand on her back and say,
"careful, GG, careful."
so precious.

6 weeks later

It's been about that long since we jumped into this journey without knowing we were on our way! Jack, you're doing great. I think you're doing great, anyway. For a little guy who is barely 2 1/2 and stays dry all day in big boy pants and has dry pullups whenever we go somewhere (because Mommy is too paranoid about changing poop filled underwear in the middle of a nasty WalMart bathroom with GG in tow), I think that is pretty awesome! Accidents are few and far between and I can usually attribute most of the blame to myself because I didn't ask or because we got busy. Still using diapers at bedtime and naps and still very wet when you wake, but we'll tackle one hill at a time. I have to admit, it secretly drives me crazy that people expect you to also stay dry at night and naps already, too. I still think of you as being so little. I've heard so many people tell me they threw the diapers away all together all at once. (!!!??! how?) We've tried the plastic pants, but you're wet from head to toe and it just seems like it doesn't make any sense to go to so much work twice a day with sheets and laundry and clothing if it makes no difference.... you have your last drink between 5-5:30 with dinner and then you're supposed to stay dry from 7pm-7am while you're sleeping?

....but I think we're going to wait until after the holidays and then take off one side of your bed and then change to plastic pants at night. I'm afraid to put you through too many changes all at once. We haven't changed your crib because we haven't had a good reason to. You like your bed, you sleep really well, you're not afraid of the dark, you don't tear up the bed or try to crawl out. So we haven't changed it. Maybe getting you up to pottie at midnight and 3am might help keep you dry, but disturbing your sleep goes against every mommy instinct inside of me. ugh. This is the first real struggle with the unknown that I've had since you were an infant and we couldn't get you to sleep for the first 5 months. I just don't want to push you before you're physically able, but don't want to set you back if you are. Hope to get some advice, because I know many mommies in the same situation and they've been going through it for months or even years and I don't want you to be heading off to college in Pull-Ups : /
anyone with some useful advice?