One more week! & potty training progress

Ok, so originally we had the due date for our daughter for the 27th of September. Somehow, they decided to change it to the 20th, and at our last appointment we agreed it is supposed to be the 27th. Does it really matter? No, because either way she will come when she is ready and I do not want to rush her into this world. Some days, yes, I very much wish I was not pregnant anymore, and as the days go by, I have more and more of those days! The useless contractions and feet in the ribs along with horrid heartburn are getting to me just a bit. Is it all worth it? Well, duh, of course, I just want to be done being pregnant, and have her in my arms and know that she is healthy and strong.

This past week I have gotten over the fact that I expected her to be here by now and I am just trying to take advantage of the extra free time that I have and spend as much time with Tyler. I did not expect to have this much time off of work before I went into labor. My guess, is if I had stayed working, the extra stress would have caused me to go into labor faster. I thought two weeks was good, but we are approaching a month at the end of September. Not complaining by any means!

Can you tell we are both just a little tired today?

This is a pic I took this morning of Tyler being slightly grumpy.

We are in the midst of potty training. Ok, so originally we had thought he was ready back in February. We had a potty party, and was very unsuccessful. Yes we had a few good moments, but all in all it was just frusterating for the both of us. No matter how much fun I try to make it.

We would bring it up everyonce in a while and only talk about it, and not "make" him go. He wanted to sometimes and that was what we did for a while. Now that he is approaching 3 years old faster and faster, and now that he is in preschool it seems like it should be happening. Why? Well, I know he knows how to, when to and why to. Most the time he doesn't want to because it takes him away from his toys or whatever he is busy with. He would rather just go in his pants.

Ok, so why is he practically completely potty trained at preschool? I assume it's because all the other kids are doing it, they make a point of it to go like every half hour. We try to continue the routine when he gets home and he will just flat out refuse to go! It's really bad just after he wakes up in the morning or at naptime. He doesn't care if he is wet and doens't even want a new diaper.

Well, last night I thought maybe we were gonna make big progress. Just before bed he was tryin to pee standing up, and it was having a hard time on the little potty, so i asked him if he wanted to pee in the big potty. He did! Then I decided to try the cheerio trick. He was super excited and thought it was pretty cool to pee on the cheerios. He even asked when we were done if he could pee on the cheerios again! So this morning I tried it again and he went right back to completely refusing the whole process. I know we are making progress, but it just seems so slow, and the fact that he does soooo good at school just makes it more frusterating! I will keep ya updated as so how this goes, especially once Ayva is here. I expect it to not get better for a while. We will see.