TITLE: Jasper Pup and JT’s First Day

It’s been a big week so far for JT. FIRST - he got a new puppy this past weekend. We were on our regular Saturday morning visit to the Jasper Farmer’s Market and a small family had a box of puppies they were giving away for free. We tried our hardest to not make eye contact. Lucky for puppy we had Gramma with us. We agreed JT could have the puppy if she helped train it (she’s good at training - she trained Licorice, our 9yr old black lab).We named her Jasper. She’s really cute (what puppy isn’t?!?!).

We’re not quite sure what breed she is - she’s all mutt but sorta looks like a Golden Retriever pup - though we think she may have some Chow in her. So far we know she’s a breed that can stand being carried upside down by her back legs, pulled by the tail, sat on, chased, stepped on, dropped intentionally in a cold child’s pool, dumped through the window on the door, put into crate to go nite-nite 400x’s in 20min, pushed in a child’s wheel barrow, forced to stay in the dump truck through wild and reckless driving, lived through many attempts to put her on the back seat of the tricycle for a ride, and sought after, by the name “MuPuppees - where MuPupees? where is she?” the moment one little boy opens his eyes every morning. It’s amazing how quickly he became attached to this dog. Which in the end, makes it all worth it.

JT also started back to daycare this week - he seems to be getting along really well there. He’s lucky, right now there are very few kids at the daycare (since the schoolwas JUST built) so over the next few weeks until their enrollment is up he gets lots of attention. We all know how much JT LOVES attention.

The school is pretty impressive; he seems to like it there - today he even had Daddy chasing him through the hallways rather than heading straight for the door to leave - we had to coax him out.

Barry’s already ham-boning with all the women that work there. It’s pretty funny - I guess it’s rare now-a-days for a father to be so involved with what’s going on. I have to admit - i like it a lot!

JT gets a daily report from school - i’m going to post the comments here fairly often - some are rather funny - some just for prosterity’s sake (this is his “babybook” btw so make lots of comments!!!).

We’re getting into a routine again - the new daycare DEFINITELY saves us on travel time. Which is the whole reason we changed in the first place.

6am - leave house

6:30am - arrive at JT’s school

7:30am - arrive at work

4:30pm - leave work (if we can get out)

5:50pm - pick up JT

6:00 to 7:00pm - YMCA for workout

8:30pm - JT’s bedtime

rinse - wash - repeat

Today is only Wednesday and we’ve have already had to sign TWO incident reports for JT. I’m not sure how many repots it will take before they realize JT’s head is as hard as they come; and his bumping it, falling on it, hitting it, etc will be a daily event for him and no report is necessary.

TITLE: JT @ 20mo old

JT is now just over 20months old and we have had a child’s potty next to our toilet for about a month now - the pediatrician recommended we do this - and talk about our time on the potty as much as possible. No pressure on him just warming him up to the idea. He’s catching on - he’ll hang out with us and play with his potty, putting everything but himself ON the potty (4wheelers, barns, transformers, hot wheels). We figure we’ll let him decide when he’s ready and for-go forcing the issue.

This evening while I was in the kitchen cooking dinner I noticed JT looking as if he may need to go potty. I didn’t pay much attention but i did ask if he needed to go potty. He came up and gave me a hug and went on his way. A few minutes later i hear him yelling for Momma. Not a “i’m in pain” type yell - just hollering for me. So i go looking for him and ends up - he’s closed himself in the bathroom and cant get out and the light is off (which makes this particular bathroom pitch black no matter what time of day). I open the door and turn on the light and he’s pointing to his potty. I then take off his shorts and diaper (which was full of #2) and he sits on the potty for about 10-20 seconds. I decide to let him be and see what happens - i walk back by the bathroom only to see him walking out in disgust saying “Ewwwwe - Ewwwwe”. I look in the bathroom and he had POOPED ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF THE POTTY.

Rather than point out the obvious, that he missed the potty - i clapped and hooted and congratulated him on using the potty. He seemed quite proud. Only then did i realize we forgot to get diapers at the store today - we had no more and dinner was now on the table. So we let him run around free-willy style for about an hour and then got diapers and cleaned things up immediately after dinner. Later in the evening Gramma went to use the restroom only to step in #1… apparently during his free-willy-time he went to the bathroom AGAIN - IN FRONT OF THE POTTY!!!

Since we’ve now got him HOUSE TRAINED - should we spread newspaper in the bathroom???

PS - i DID take a picture of the scene for posterity’s sake.