My three year old son and I were sitting on the couch talking about who knows what the other day, with hubby. Somehow the topic of weddings came up. Samuel knows about weddings, since he’s had the opportunity to be two in the last two years. (That’s a post for another time!) So, he was talking about weddings and church buildings, and getting married. I asked him if he was going to have a wedding, and if he was going to get married.

His response… “Uh YES, Mommy… I get married in church.”

So, of course I said, “Well, who are you going to marry?”

It was a classic moment. He looked at me like I was from outer space, and said almost incredulously, “YOU, Mommy.” Like duh, was his attitude, and he jabbed at me with his finger to make the point even stronger.

I chuckled and glanced at Hubby who grinned too, and said “His first love”.

We went on to have the “But Mommy is already married to Daddy” conversation, but it didn’t deter my little sweetheart. He is SURE I’ll be ready to marry him when it’s time.

Note: This post contains all kind of “potty talk”, in reference to toilet training. Please refrain from reading if you are offended by such things!!

So… we are potty training in our house…FINALLY. S is 3 1/2 years old, and we’re just now getting the potty training thing going. I thought we might do it earlier this year, when I was still pregnant with Baby AB, but bedrest and exhaustion kept that from happening. Plus S wasn’t all that interested. He’s still only mildly interested, as he doesn’t really want to be bothered to slow down from his 100 MPH to sit on a toilet. I was giving him the option for awhile, “Do you want to wear a diaper or underwear today?”, until I realized that it was a bad idea. Given the option, he will ALWAYS opt for a diaper.

Surprisingly enough, he’s done GREAT without diapers around the house. His only issue right now is figuring out how to use the potty for “stinkies”. (Here’s where you might want to move on to another blog!) Anyway, he has been waiting until naptime, when I put a pullup on him, and then doing the stinky deed. Which means we use TWO pull-ups per nap, and he hasn’t used the toilet once for that purpose. In several weeks! So, on to Plan B. No pull-ups at naptime, in the hopes that he’ll come tell me when he needs to go, and we’ll get past this barrier. He can’t hold it forever, right?

So, today at naptime, he decided about every ten minutes that he needed to use the potty. After eight attempts – nothing. Not sure if he is afraid to just let go, or what! But, we did have some interesting conversations. He will kill me someday for recording this on the Internet, but I’ll add a few dollars to the therapy fund, because it’s too funny to NOT share.

S (pointing to his back): Mommy, that where the stinky lives?
Me: Yes, it needs to come out though.
S: It lives there in Mommy too?
Me: Yes baby.. in Mommy too.
S: It’s in Daddy too? And Mema and Papa?
Me: Yes.
S: And in Grandma and Grandpa. And in Bob Builder. In Oscar and Bruce (cartoon characters). In Baby and in Gracie (cousin).
Me: Yes, in everybody. Are you going to go, or are you just playing so you don’t have to take a nap?
S: I going, it just not working yet.
Me: Ok.
S: My peepee lives here (pointing to the front).
Me: Yep.
S: It lives here in Mommy?
Me: (sighing!!) Yep.
S: And in Mema and Papa and Daddy and Grandma and Grandpa……. (and on and on)
Me: (interupting) Ok, that’s enough trying. Let’s head back to bed.
S: It just not working yet. Stinky lives here!! (Pointing to his bottom, as he gets off the toilet).
Me: Maybe it will work later. Just make sure you let Mommy know and we’ll try again.
S: It not time to come out yet. Maybe later.

And off he headed back to bed to “nap”. We repeated this conversation four times today. Oh, the joys of potty training!

We’ve started pre-preschool activity! My 3.5 year old has decided that he wants to “do school”. I was hesitant to spend a lot of money of school curriculum for pre-school, so I did what I usually do when I want to save money. I looked for “free” curriculums on the web. And, I found some terrific stuff! Here are a few links:

Learning Page – Free worksheets; free membership
Letter of the Week – The majority of what we are doing is from this site – GREAT stuff!
MakingFriends – TONS of fun craft projects and ideas! I love the paper dolls! Oh, and Bible crafts too!
Homeschool Share
Scholastic.com

S is LOVING school, and he’s soaking it all up so fast. We have spent time almost every day, working on letters, colors, numbers, etc. He already knows a lot, thanks to Blue’s Clues, Dora, and Sesame Street, but we’re applying his knowledge is fun ways. And he’s gaining new skills, like how to use scissors and a glue stick. Is it weird to get teary-eyed when your child learns to use a glue stick for the first time?? I hope not! He couldn’t get enough of it last week, and every day he wanted me to print more stuff for him to cut and glue. Thanks to the Internet, I have tons of links and resources to pull from when he wants MORE! Right now, we do a bit in the morning, and then again in the afternoon. He asks as soon as he wakes up from his nap – “MORE school!” Ah, a child after my own heart…