Another crappy story....

this is today's retelling of today's series unfortunate events...first smashed finger and now have blood blister halfway under fingernail on index finger. then went to go get sophia and teacher said that the little bugger did not take a nap today- instead she played and giggled with her friend chiara. i knew it was gonna be a tough afternoon. unfortunately i decided to walk to school instead of ride the bike (just to change things up a bit) and sophia decided that she wanted to go to the park. but neither she nor i were dressed for the wind that was picking up. sophia was especially under-dressed for the occasion since she decided to wear her crocs, which arent very warm and come off very easily. and she unfortunately decided to shout 'PARK' and not ask nicely. in fact she refused to ask nicely. so she threw a big gigantic tantrum ALL the way home, screaming and shouting. i ended up having to pick her squirming writhing body and struggle all the way home. she went immediately in time out and things got better. she is still going around the house in her half-naked potty training. then she started doing the poop dance. 'doo-doo mommy' she cried while hiding behind the curtains. i went to go and grab her under the arms and carry her to the bathroom. there was already a turtle-head, that grew by the second until it plopped onto the floor, under my foot and squished everywhere, and i slipped (but did not fall). and then another one plopped onto the bathroom floor, and i was holding her under the armpits and running around the land mines in our very narrow bathroom. eventually i got her on the toilet, still red faced and pushing... but the action was over...at least for her. she's okay with going shi-shi but she refuses to poop in the toilet. later during dinner it was the same thing. she cries 'doo-d00' and tears stream down her face and we put her on the toilet and then she wants immediately off. she refuses to stay on. she goes back to doing whatever she was doing (in this case dinner) and then cries 'poop, doo-doo' and back onto the toilet, then back off and back to the table. this makes for a very irritating dinner. what makes me frustrated is that after crying doo-doo, then trip to toilet, then off the toilet, then back and forth a million times , she then poops on the floor again. arghhhh! i know its just one tiny step back for all the steps forward we made, but it still sucks!

she did again

as soon as she wakes up or gets home from school, i yank the diaper off. i cant always get her on the toilet in the morning, because i think she pees when she knows still has the diaper on. but after school i can usually get her at least once. today she held her pee for hours until she was bursting, she crossed her legs, sat very still, did everything but agree to go to the bathroom. eventually she couldnt hold it any more and sophia ran up and said 'diaper.' i said nope, we're gonna sit on the toilet. the response was 'no thank you, diaper, hurry.' but i plopped her down anyways and she went on the toilet! wooo hooo! next goal is to get her to poop on the toilet...i was suprised she didnt today because i made korean pancakes with lots of veg and she ate half an apple. she has amazing control - doesnt get it from my side of the family. we have to pee often and when we gotta go we gotta go, without hesitation!

ive been working on this bracelet. i dont know where im going with it. maybe it will become a necklace because the 'chain' is so darn big. i like the idea, it looks so klimt.

just found this:
i was so excited when i saw all the wire wrapping on metal workers. i looked everywhere on how to do it. finally i found the right key words and stumbled up a tutorial just now. check out this woman's stuff it's fantastic: studio heath. keep your eyes peeled for future work. maybe i will actually make something out of it.

im outta wire/nude-y booty

darn, im out of 18 gauge wire, thats annoying, ive been all over the city looking for more. well here is the last bracelet made out off the last of the wire that i had.



so last night i got fed up and sophia went totally bottomless. she held her pee for hours, but she went on the toilet! wahlah! same thing for this morning, as soon as she got out of bed, i yanked the diaper off and she ate breakfast with her little double char siu bao nudey booty - and again she went on the toilet. lets hope it keeps going.

Mamma Mia, Here We Go AGAIN!

OMG, this is soooo never-ending! Just when we think Sophia is all better, it starts all over again. Its never been as bad as that first day, but I seriously really absolutely, cannot stand to clean up anymore squishy-leaky diapers or the dribble trails! This is HORRIFIC! BTW did we choose the wrong time ever to start the toilet training! And again, I repeat, why does this ALWAYS happen when Max isnt home????

Oh Crap...

...Uffa! Today is Sant'Ambrogio, so its basically a holiday for the Milanese, and anyone in the surrounding area who does not want to work. Pia's preschool is on holiday. Max went to work the 6 am shift. Had a hard time going to sleep last night, so I had a hard time getting up when Soph crawled into the bed. Then it was to the kitchen for milk and cheerios. I asked several times if she had to go pee or poop, of course the answer, as usual was a curt 'NO, THANK YOU!' When we finished I sat down at the computer to read the news, and i saw her do the poop face, so i asked yet again, and of course i got the same response. So I head towards the bathroom to take a shower, there I am buck naked, water running and who comes along and says 'pee pee mommy?' It's now winter here, im freezing (and you know how it is with toddlers, EVERYTHING i do in the bathroom i do with the bathroom door opened!), so really what can i do? i quickly yank down the pull-ups and her jammy pants toss the little potty training toilet seat on the toilet and plop her down....when...comes wafting out a terrible smell and mushy poop smushes all over the little blue seat. 'Shit', i think to myself...how clichè of me. Soph and her OCD are freaking out, 'poop mommy, yucky' as she smushes her finger into the gunk. And of course she is scared, so she goes directly for my hair to cuddle for comfort, which is dangling loosely every where because if you remember, i was about to step in the shower. I think by now it was now dipping into the poop on the toilet too. So I try to completely yank off her pants and pull-up smearing poop down her leg, which then touches the toilet and now its EVERYWHERE. could it get worse? well yes, apparently so...not growing up in Europe, I usually am not a big fan of the bidet, but conveniently its located right next to the toilet and easier to use than the shower or bathtub in these types of situations, so i plop her down, only then realizing that the poop really is everywhere. For anyone who is a mom, you've seen that poopy diapers can literally leave a trail of poop up all over the back and up to the armpits. Anyone seen 'Death at a Wedding' - it was getting to be near that scene with uncle alfred in the bathroom. I'm trying to wash off sophia, but the poop is everywhere, and just seems to be conquering new territories...she's wiggling and crying and poop water is splashing everywhere, it's also now in more than just my hair! Still buck naked in the middle of winter, i now need to creep onto sophia's balconey to throw away the poopy diaper because thats where we keep the smelly container. and of course she doesnt wanna get dressed so i have to chase her around the house to get her poopy onsie off and clean clothes on. so now ive now flashed the west and east sides of the town, Happy Sant'Ambros Cologno Monzese! why doesnt this stuff ever happen when max is home??

The day after Thanksgiving

It's the day after Thanksgiving. Finished American Gods while preparing dinner for tomorrow (we are celebrating 2 days late due to Max's work schedule). Awesome book. Sophia has been really good about asking to go to the toilet (except when there are cartoons on, she forgets). Glad we bought those plastic covered cloth diapers a while back when I thought that I would not contribute to global warming with regular diapers (that only lasted until her poops were still little). I think those help a lot, I've been using last years Little Swimmers too because they dont really hold in the pee, but enough not to have puddles everywhere. Sophia's been a funny girl lately, every time she gets in trouble she calls Grandma (the American one), back when we were in the US and her Daddy was still in Italy, she used to call him when she got in trouble with Grandma. My how the tables have turned.

OK Kevin Anderson, I will take you up on that tip

This is what happened...No diaper on Sophia, just underpants. I had her chair covered in plastic and towels. Towels around the room to soak up any accidents. I wouldn't let her sit on the couch. Had the TV on so that she would remain basically in one area. Got my jewelry stuff out so i could sit near her and keep an eye on her -especially for any poopin faces. I asked her every 10 minutes if she had to go pee pee (and of course she said no). And after a while she got curious and wanted to see what I was doing. I had a ring on the table and she wanted to wear it, but I told her to sit down...and of course as I'm saying it I can hear the trickling sound of pee...but it didnt sound like it was splashing down on the marble floor. no, of course not. it was more like the sound of a water fountaing, small little puddles dribbling down in to one big... WTF OMG NOOOOOOOO...she peed right into my open bag of beads and wire! It's just another manic mondayyy , woooahh woahh woah! And of course Max was at work until midnight, so when I told him all he did was laugh. Men just arent born with EMPATHY as we know from White Men can't Jump! Laugh in 24 hours, it will be funny then!
So according to Kevin Anderson, long time friend of my sister's - take the diaper off and let the kid run around naked will solve the pee pee problem ASAP. I was gonna wait on trying that, since we are in the middle of a cold fall...but 10 minutes after that little incident Sophia was running around in her bday suit! And she didnt on the floor again for the rest of the night! "Hold your water [Sophia], hold your water till the end of the song!"

She did it!

Even though she already pooped in her diaper, Sophia said she had to go to the bathroom and she actually peed a little in the toilet! Hooray. So Willie you can stop making bets where if you lose you will have to change her diapers...

On Pot

The pacifier is gone...and now begins potty training. And the answer is, no she didnt poop, she's just sitting there reading a book.