Uhhh, Kevin You've Got A Problem

If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you are aware that Aubrey has been potty training for the past three months and it has gone pretty well and thought we were about at the completion of this project BUT as with most projects there are delays and setbacks - this project included. The old saying is true - two steps back one step forward.

"I want to wear my diaper"
Aubrey started back to daycare the first week of August and everything was going fine until a couple of weeks ago when she started pooping in her pants. Where is this coming from? She hasn't pooped in her pants since we started potty training except for the first time after we started this process and she didn't like it one bit - she started crying and saying "I'm dirty"...This became almost a daily problem at daycare and they began requiring her to start wearing pull ups. Trying to find the root cause of her actions, we asked some questions and found out that she was the only one in her class using the potty, everyone else was using diapers - a possible cause OR maybe she doesn't like the afternoon people and wants to give them something to do - the I'll Show You Syndrome. Also about the same time, she started telling us "I want to wear my diaper." We countered with the old "Babies wear diapers and you are a big girl and you wear panties.". We tried to work around the issue at daycare and settled on her wearing the pull ups in the afternoons when the accidents were occurring. Last week, we went back to underpants at daycare all day and only had one accident last week on Friday just before LA picked her up. I am thinking Aubrey is trying to teach the girl in the afternoon who is really in charge.

"Uhhh, Kevin You've Got A Problem"
After a good message (it should be posted in a couple of days) at Ashley Ridge Church, we went to lunch with the Wheeler's and the Wright's at Chili's and sat on their patio (thank goodness). They have the best chips, salsa and queso in town but I digress (it is the only reason I am willing to go there because they take forever - it is a chance for you to experience life in slow motion). I am going to skip the minor details of our lunch and our great conversations and get to the point. Aubrey was her normal busy self and tired which makes her that much more fun trying to keep her occupied and to stay seated in a booster or high chair. We started out in the booster and moved to a high chair (see earlier comment about taking forever). Aubrey grew restless it the high chair and starting standing up and sitting on the back of the high chair. LA was talking to the girls and I was in never, never land holding Aubrey's hand so she would fall out of the high chair when Travis tells me "Uhhh, Kevin You've Got A Problem". I look over at Aubrey and standing up in the high chair peeing. Are you kidding me? What is she thinking? I quickly jump up and pretend she isn't my child and that she belongs to Travis and Minde...just kidding (although it did cross my mind). Aubrey is so smart that she stood up so she wouldn't get her dress wet...actually that was just luck. Let me add that she had been and used the bathroom before leaving ARC and as soon as we got to Chili's. This wasn't a minor accident...we had a major haz mat spill taking place before our eyes...imagine a full cup of water spilling onto the floor starting at about 1.5 feet above a high chair. You get the picture? Now, we have high chair full of pee that has flowed onto the floor, under the table and is making a bee line for Jenn Wright (she politely picks up her feet and moves closer to Danny). Uhhh, Houston, we have a problem. The Chili's patio has become Bourbon Street in New Orleans or downtown Charleston after the horses pulling the carriages pee in the street. Clean up at Table 6 on the patio. We ask for some towels and a manager comes out with towels and disinfectant and cleans the high chair (I assisted) and I apologize to him and tell him we are going to need a mop (just in case he hasn't noticed) for the river on the floor and I apologize again. He gets a mop and I apologized again and he tells me "No, worries I've seen worse"...What could be worse? and Where did you see this? I'm listening because I need something to make me feel better about what just happened because I am pretty sure this isn't happening everyday. Kids are one first after another...A big shout out to Minde for stepping in with the assist to LA in getting Aubrey cleaned up.

Side Note To The Story
I don't know why but our kids seem to have it in for Danny and Jenn when it comes to bodily functions. This is like the fourth time something has happened when they are around or holding Aubrey or Wyatt. Our kids must like Jenn and Danny so much that they want to mark their territory. They will never want to have kids if all they got to interact with was our kids...I am pretty sure I am not offering to hold or babysit their kids (you know what they say about paybacks being twice as bad). Danny and Jenn thanks for always keeping extra clothes with you when you're out with us and for laughing with us (at least outwardly) when something happens.

I am not sure how many steps back I can take. Danny and Jenn are you busy this weekend?