Potty training um notes.

This is really just a personal note for me, to mark down Aiden's future history.
We stared potty training full on yesterday, instead of using his potty once in a blue moon. I moved the furniture around to take out his own upholstered chair, shoved the couch (which i covered with blankets) up against the radiator so he couldn't hide behind it, and used the large baby gate to block him off from the computers, table, his dining chair and rocking chair. Then.. I took his pants, nappy.. all! half naked boy all day.. if you want to "go" you got 2 options the floor or your potty chair. He went in his potty 12 times yesterday!! 12! he had 2 pee accidents in which he realized he was going, shot up and finished on his potty! and he did pinch one off on the floor while i was upstairs, but i did notice he tried on his potty but wasn't positioned right so gave it up as a bad job and finished on the floor! What i am doing since stickers, candy, and outright trying to make him go doesn't work for him... i am wrapping up his hotwheels that have been upstairs for months, since we rotate his toys, and giving them back to him as a present every time he uses the potty. We have bought some cheap generic ones as well to wrap up. He will get a present every time he goes this week, then next week he can have one at the end of the day if he uses the potty all day. and then eventually will phase it to end of the week, which at 20-50p a car really isn't costing me much since I'm saving 32p a nappy :)
I'm so proud of aiden, he is really doing fantastic! today we are trying underpants instead of bare butt, and he has managed to take them off all on his own, if not a bit clumsily, but he has got them off in time today so far 4 times... exactly how much does my son wee? seriously! hahahaha

We were reading "Happy Worm" today, and when it comes to the part of the book where the Princess Kisses the Frog.. well this is how it goes:
(me reading) Before the Kiss...
aiden.. jumps up in my lap and plants a big one on me, with full Muuuuuaaaaah! sounds.
aiden: i want to kiss your cheek!, Muuuuuuaaaah!
and the other one.. Muuuuuuaaaah!
I want to kiss your nose! Muuuuaaah
Kiss your hair! Muuuuaaah!
And kiss your ear! Muuuuaaah
and the other ear! Muuuuah
me: Ahh I love you Aiden You're Gorgeous!
aiden: I want to Kiss Your Happy!..
and he kisses my huge smile :)

while watching 'Bolt' before bed time.. aiden decided i was no longer mommy, but i was 'Mittens' from the movie..
'mittens!'
im not mittens i am mommy
'no you are mittens'.. mittens! mittens! mittens....' he kept saying mittens over and over with a huge grin on his face.. he would grab my chin and steer it towards his face and exclaim... 'Mittens!'
i am mommy not mittens.. he grabs my chin with one finger, and whispers 'pssst mommy' i turn and look at him...
'you are mittens!' ... i give in.. ok then you better watch out or my claws will get you!

this obviously reminds him of "Where the Wild Things Are"

and he goes on a rant intertwining Bolt, and the book

'And They Roar their terrible roars.. Raaawr! and they gnashed their terrible eyes, and they gnashed their terrible teeth, and they gnashed their terrible claws!'

he has taken certain liberties on how the book actually goes, but it is hilarious.. he goes on like this for quite a few minutes, ....intermittently calling me mittens..

aiden is finding his lil man feet.. and has decided to argue.. almost every single point he can. this is todays that i can recall.

at the car boot this morning aiden see's a tree..
'it's a christmas tree!'
"i think that tree is too big to be a christmas tree"
'no, its a small tree'
"ok you know best its a small tree"
'no, its a large tree'
"ok it's a large tree"
'no, its a medium tree'
"yes i see its medium"..
this argument ended when daddy arrived with his freshly purchased Fifi and the flower tots play set he was demanding before this argument started..


after the car boot, we are in the car and pass a field of cows..
"look at all the cows!" robin says, yes there is a brown one, a black one and a white one! cows say moooo!
aiden: no, they are not cows, they do not say moo!
us: yes they are i can see they are cows and they do go moo
aiden: no they are not!
us: ok well then what are they?
aiden: they are sheep!
us: laughing.. ok they are sheep then.
aiden: no they are not sheep, they are cows and they go mooo!

while playing football (soccer) this morning aiden said:
this game is not allowed, not for 100 years...
'well if its not allowed why are we still playing it?'
this is game is not allowed, it's impossible! then he put up the balls..


he made me some 'tea' instead

Aiden swears;
but luckily for us all.. i don't mind...
because he does it in his own special way... he use-es the word 'Gorgeous'
Ahhh Gorgeous! Mommy...
Gorgeous!!!!...

where we would say ahh crap.. .. or say Sh*t in frustration... he says gorgeous... I'm just glad he hasn't picked up on some of the more colourful words he has heard and has tried to use them instead..he has chosen his own private expletive...

as a parent we get to post gross stuff and most mothers don't mind, we shrug things off because over time we just aren't bothered any more by the bodily fluids and other lil things that come with the job.
so yesterday aiden had, had, apple juice, 2 fruit smoothies.. 2 handfuls of grapes, cereal with strawberries.. and had not poo'd all day..
by the time we put him to bed we were waiting for the crap storm to come during the night. i checked on him at 10:30, sure enough.. the boy NEEDED to be changed.. i changed him half asleep, and put him back to bed.
at 6:30 on his changing mat im getting him dressed for the day, fresh nappy is on, he looks at me and says..
'mommy, there is crap in my bum!' 2 seconds ago i just fascined his diaper.. 'Ok, i'll check'
laughing i say 'No, honey there is no crap in your bum'
he looks are me all serious, and slightly angry.. Slaps his changing mat and says
'It's Not Funny!'
'no, its not, im sorry...'

but at 6:30..it was hilarious