Gandhi-Irwin Blog

Right now, she is replacing an "F" at the beginning of a word with a "P" so "Fixed it" becomes "Pixed it." She's gotten pretty good and putting duplo blocks together so we've been building towers that past week or so. Sometimes she doesn't get the piece on quite right, pushes too hard, and it comes crashing down, so I've started saying "Saha, fix it." So now she says "Pix it!" Here's a video we shot last week. We've got a smart cookie! I know I'm behind, I'll catch up, I promise, I've just got some stuff I have to get done for a deadline!

I'm really tired (I had to move my stuff from being on site back to the office today and man, boxes are heavy!) so I'm just going to do a quick update on Saha's progress. She only had one accident at school today, at that was at 8:30 in the morning! The rest of the day, she used the toilet, no problem! Hooray for Saha! Her teachers said that she didn't even ask for a treat each time either, so we may be weaning off the treats faster than we expected.

This weekend, we did the "3-day" potty training method with Saha. It started on Friday. We filled her with watered down grape juice all morning and she had around 5-6 accidents before lunch. It was a bit discouraging, but she woke up from her nap dry, so that made us feel much better. She had fewer accidents in the evening and she even went right before bed, so I put her in underwear, a plastic cover and PJs for the night. That didn't go so well. She had completely peed through by the morning, even though we checked her around 12:30 am and she was dry. Saturday she did much better. She used the potty in the living room for the first time that morning. She only had a couple of accidents. One of them was peeing in my shoes! Luckily they are washable, and Allen and I had a hard time not cracking up about that one. She didn't stay dry through her nap, but we were able to take her out to the park for about 45 minutes in the afternoon without incident. We had the first real...