The Eberhard Family

* 2 years, 2-3 months *

These are some funny sayings or some impressive sentences from Emma that I can remember lately…

“Oh… only small one”, after we pooed on the potty and only a small-ish one came out.

“Better wash it”, after we drew on our pink cloth.

“Don’t worry daddy, Emma is here”, patting daddy.

For a while, Emma gets so excited about telling us something, so quickly, her sentences can’t quite follow what she wanted to say so quickly, so it usually starts as: “Emma Emma Emma Emma…. ” eventually something will follow after the strings of Emma. Because most of her sentences start with Emma.

“Swiper no swipe Emma cookie”

“Emma big girl, go toilet”

“Emma little monster, daddy big monster”

“Emma little monkey, Adam big monkey, Bella big monkey”

“Where daddy’s cow, Emma can’t find it, Daddy come help!”

Daddy: “Bath time!”
Emma: “Not yet, Emma still busy”

“Emma close this door”

“Emma needs fluffy now” – 9th Oct

“Kitty come on, follow me!”

Daddy has a cheese cake, Emma wants to have a few bites, so daddy said, eat carrot first. So Emma did. Daddy said eat one more… so she did. 6 small pieces of carrots later, daddy said, eat one potatoe, too. Emma said: “Oh, man!” – 10th Oct

“Emma go sleep (with) mummy now, so mummy come get down Emma now” says Emma, sitting on the bar stools and letting mummy know that she wants to come sleep with me. So I better get her off the chair now.

Mummy: “花生醬放在冰箱都硬掉了, 好像大便” (peanut butter has been left in the fridge, gone all hard, looks like poo)
Emma: “Daddy come eat 大便” (poo)
Mummy: hahahahahaha – 11th Oct

“Oh my goodness!” – 11th Oct

“太陽刺刺 (sun shining in the eyes), must close curtain” – 12th Oct

“Looks like nice seat” – 12th Oct

“Emma run away… Oh no! Uphill, Emma can’t run” – 19th Oct

* 2 years, 2-3 months *

Emma is slowly getting to the age where you can check if she’s ready for toilet training. So mummy bought some cloth nappies and tried them on whenever she can. Although that was hard, as she’s in daycare 3 days and with grandparents 1 day. So only Friday to Sunday is toilet-”training”-able time. Also it has to be the times we are not going out, which is also rare.

One Friday morning, within 3 hours, we had 5 wet nappies and 4 wet pants later… mummy gave up. I thought, she’s probably not there yet, as she was wet through and couldn’t tell she was wet.

But cloth nappy still comes in handy in those odd times when she needed a change 1-2 hours before bed time. Saves another nappy!

Toilet-”training” is an activity that is done by mummy. No one else in the house seemed to want to play with the cloth nappies; nor too bothered about toilet-training.

It wasn’t really any “training”, I thought now, we will just wait till she’s more ready and see what to do.

Then…

Friday, 18th September, (2 years, 2 months and 2 weeks), Emma came to me and said Emma 大便臭臭 (poo, stinky). So I checked and found no poo in her nappy. Then I quickly took her to the toilet and sat her in the potty; I had to sit on the big toilet with her. We sang and we mucked around for a while; then I pretend to make the grunting noise. Emma did the same too. We were having fun. Then she started doing some serious ones…. then she was quite excited, got up and said: “ohh, 臭臭 (stinky), look mummy”.

Yes, we’ve pooed in the potty for the first time! I took a photo but I won’t share it here.

After that, the following Thursday, we did the same again, except this time, it was a lot faster, she knew exactly what she has to do and did it.

The following week, when she was with me at home, including evening time, she pooed in her potty. 3 times. A few times she woke up with a poo nappy, or pooed while we were out. But the funny thing is, she would only go to the potty with me so far.

This week, on Sunday, 4th Oct (just turned 2years 3 months), she peed in the potty for the first time, too. She pooed in the potty earlier that day. In the evening before bath time, I found her nappy to be dry after 1-2 hours, so I sat her on the potty and asked if she wants to pee. And she did, she was most amazed. Kept asking me to look. The next day, she also asked to go pee, but only had 2 drops. I think she’s not quite there yet to control her pee, so she knows it is happening but then it’s too late to get to the toilet.

Friday, when we went out, she told daddy she has a poo nappy, and it was about 10-15 mins later before we got into the toilet in the shopping mall. I checked, no poo. So I rushed her into the cubicle and sat her on the toilet + holding onto her. We peed in the toilet and then took a while before a few solid poo came out. I think she’s a little constipated.

But this is a big change, pee and poo in the public toilet! Still with mummy only but hey, this is really amazing as it is!! Because, I really didn’t do anything in terms of “training” her.

Now, I used “training” with quptation marks, because, to be honest, it really was all her own work. She just started asking to go to the toilet and did it. Once she’s done it, slowly she gets used to the idea and more happens.

So I guess it won’t be too long now, she would be nappy-free, at least during the day. Maybe a few more months. We will see.