{"id":1155,"date":"2010-05-06T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T01:25:46","slug":"joy-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Joy Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Awwwww…she is looking at her Daddy.?? :)?? Love that.<\/p>\n

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I am one of those mom’s that really prefers path of least resistance when it comes to child rearing.? I don’t like to push my kids to do things before they are ready because frankly – it simply makes for a mad kid and a frustrated mommy.? When it comes to the dreaded potty training, I would much prefer and wait until they are 3 and showing a real interest.?? If you wait them out, they pretty much train themselves and I am totally cool with that.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tori had other ideas in mind.?? Being a driver like mommy, “waiting” was not on her agenda.<\/p>\n

This weekend she decided she wanted to use the potty in the RV so I humored her a couple of times and was surprised when she really did mean business.?? When we got home, we were having big fights over her diaper and the still necessary duct tape.?? She wanted PANTIES!<\/p>\n

Jim and I have decided this is both good and bad news.?? On the one hand, she is very motivated, has not had an accident yet (and we started this sometime yesterday morning), will go both “ways” in the toilet, is trying to wipe herself, and loves the independence.?? On the other hand, she also insists on an audience.?? It took us over 3 hours to watch Sherlock Holmes last night because Tori kept wanting me to sit in the bathroom with her and just talk and then clap. :)?? Who wants to celebrate life’s victories alone right?<\/p>\n

She is using both the big potty and the little pink potty I bought (and hate).?? She is still so tiny that I am afraid she is going to fall into the big potty.?? If I buy the seat for it, the boys won’t remove it and it will make the bathroom clean up problem an even bigger mess (ask Heidi about that LOL).?? However, I utterly detest cleaning the little potty AND Tori is trying to clean it herself when I am not looking.?? She dumps it in the sink, washes it out, and then if she gets thirsty, goes ahead and uses it as a cup!!!???? IIIIIIICCCCKKK!?? Jim caught her doing that and was not a happy daddy!<\/p>\n

She begged for “pannies” so we had to take a Walmart trip together and purchase her first pairs of panties together.?? Oh the joys of all the good mother daughter moments to come.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

You should have seen us two gal pals wondering Walmart each carrying Dora the Explorer and Princess panties.?? We both smiled ear to ear and I admit…like Tori, I sorta felt like telling everyone we met too.?? Guess we know where she gets it from.?? The apple doesn’t fall far.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Awwwww…she is looking at her Daddy.?? :)?? Love that. I am one of those mom’s that really prefers path of least resistance when it comes to child rearing.? I don’t like to push my kids to do things before they are ready because frankly – it simply makes for a mad kid and a frustrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}