Yamummy : Kayla's 2012 (Jan)

January 2012

- Kayla started her nursery school at Foochow Methodist Church School on 3 January 2012. Initially we were quite worried that she may cry/could not bear to leave us etc (all kinds of stories that we have heard from others) but her performance surprised us! She was excited and happy to go to school, and there were no teary goodbyes. We were very relieved of that results, and proud of our girl! She even went to kpo-ed about other kid who was crying. She never fail to leave up to her "Ms KPO" name. haha.

Activities in school

We are happy that she seems to like the teacher, & going to the school! But only 4th day in school she already caught the common flu bug from school. Haiz.. We hope she will get stronger amidst the common school bug infection...

*Happy Dragon Lunar New Year!*

This year's Lunar New Year is earlier than past years and happens in January. Kayla had lotsa fun going around visiting with her cousins and collecting ang pows.

Achievements @ 30 months!

Potty-training

- When it started?: Bought her the potty at 18 months old, but procrastinated and started aimlessly around when she was 2 years old (My own targeted training for her) but she wasn't really ready then as she didn't know how to tell us, and many times reluctantly sit on the potty.

Re-started potty training for her when at 30 months old when she is able to articulate better and understand us better. Initially she sat very long on the potty while engaging in other activities such as reading, watching tv, without any results. Felt so stressed up worrying she will leak without telling us to go pass urine, worrying that she might have problems after not passing urine for 3-4 hours.

-Method deployed: I let her wear Bum wear the training pants during the day time, then every half an hour ask if she wans to pass urine/bring her to sit potty. So every morning very Bo eng & stressed. Eventually when she knows when to tell us that she wants to pass urine, then I loosen up and so long I keep reminding her, I need not keep bringing her to potty since she dun urine tt frequent.

- Support training in school & caregiver's plc: Upon advice by an experienced colleague who is a mother herself, I have roped in both the school teacher & my in laws to help me potty train her. Both sides have been very supportive & the school side shows more positive results. Kayla is able to tell teacher if she wants to pass urine (teacher asked her to remove diaper in school) and able to use the children's toilet. In comparison, Kayla refused to use the baby toilet seat in my in laws' place & can don't pass urine for 5 hours & kept resisting to go into toilet! She can even stay dry till she reaches home to pass urine in the potty. That's when we realized that she prefers to use the potty to using the toilet!

- 1st successful wee-wee in the potty: Happened on 30 Jan 2012. She did not pass urine for almost 3 hours that day & when the urge came, she ran out from her room jumping up & down! Then she says she wants ssh ssh. Sat her down on the potty, nothing. Wore the training pants on her & she went back to thr room. Next minute she's out again. Sat her down again & she started to exert a bit, shaked her body, that Hola! Her urine started to come out! After she has finished, she looked at her urine & exclaimed," why my ssh ssh looks like orange juice?" Lol!!! (ever since then whenever she pass urine in her potty, she refers that to orange juice!) That important day marks a very major milestone that both she & I have achieved so far! To me, potty training seems to be the hardest training that I have to carry out! I have trained her on self-feeding, self-drinking etc, all not as tough as this! So naturally I was very excited at her first successful attempt! She was also elated & happy when we kept praising her! Subsequently she has a few more successful times on the potty, but sometimes yet refusing to cooperate.

- Next steps: Once she has familiarized and settle down on passing urine in potty/toilet bowl, then have train her to poo poo in potty/toilet bowl. Extremely hard as she likes to poo in her diapers while standing up, and forbids anyone to go near her! See how la, one step at a time. Then lastly would be Night time training...

Drinking from cup