This is how the majority of my days I pick up this kid from school look like. Notice anything missing? That's right, he doesn't have pants on. Just some ugly(sorry Amanda) Lightening McQueen crocs, a monsters inc. pull up, and a random train shirt. But, no pants. Want to know why? Because Rai peed on them. Yup, you heard me right. At school, his teacher lets him go free hoping that it will help with potty training, but a majority of the time I pick him up with no pants on. This seems like it shouldn't be a problem, but it is always on the days where we have multiple errands to run before we can go to "Rai house". So, into target we go to buy yet again, another pair of pants.
But besides buying pants over and over again potty training is going how it is to be expected. Not. If you tell Rai that it's time to go potty, he won't argue. He will sit down on the potty and go. What's the problem then you ask? He doesn't tell me when he needs to go potty. This afternoon when we got home from our errands, I made him go potty. He went potty right before we left the store. The ride was about 30 minutes home give or take, and by the time we got home, his pull up was almost completely full. What the heck? You literally JUST went to the bathroom 30 minutes ago. So then on went another pull up(more on that in a second) and I set my timer on my phone for 15 minutes. I told him that in 15 minutes he was going to go potty again.
About 13 minutes into the 15 minutes he looks up at me from his table and tells me he has to go potty/had already gone potty. So, I race him to his potty which is maybe 20 feet away, and his pull up is already wet, and I'm talking like really wet. Ugh. My next step was to attempt to find underwear, but who knows where those had been placed in preparation for the new baby's arrival. So, I dug through the laundry and found the thinnest pair of shorts I could find that I knew weren't expensive ones like Janie and jack or some store like that. I find this thin pair from a pajama set and decide to make him wear them without any underwear or a pull up on.
I realized that this may lead me to be cleaning pee off the floor and a bath in the future, but I am so desperate for him to be able to vocalize to me that he has to go potty. Luckily, not too long after he put the shorts on dad got home and I explained what I was doing. He didn't have any accidents when I was there and he went potty once, so maybe it is a step on the right direction. Who knows? I'm new at this whole potty training thing, and I really didn't expect to be potty training someone at the age of 20, especially since he's not my kid. But, I love him anyway.
Now, onto the part where I told you I'd explain more on. Rai thinks that to go potty, he needs to take off everything but his shirt. I'm not kidding. In the middle of a public bathroom stall off comes the shoes, the shorts, and the pull-up. Now, he's small and the toilet is bug so he has to hold himself up but putting his hands on the toilet seat. (Are you cringing or is it just me?) then, after he's done going potty he flushes the toilet and then demands I help him put on his pull up, shorts, and shoes. This is hard and painful because a) i have to crouch down and squat while he pulls my hair out trying to balance and b) those nasty hands that were just on the toilet seat are now on me. Ew. So today when we got to Rai house and we were putting on the new pull up and pants, I made him do it by himself. He wasn't so fond of that idea, but he's three. He is more than capable of putting pants on by himself. I sat there and coached him through it. And after about oh, seven minutes or so, he finally had a pull up and pants on. Then he decided he also needed to put his crocs back on, but I tried to assure him that that was not needed. Anyway, after round two of going potty, I made him put the shorts on once again by himself. This time it was a but easier, only taking about five minutes, but most of that was him telling me that I needed to do it for him. Dear lord child, all I'm asking is for you to learn how to put your pants on by yourself.
Wow and that was just a few hours. In other boring news for those of you still reading (not sure if anyone actually is), I got a 95 on a math quiz!!! Which is huge for me because math is the devil, I'm pretty sure.
Well, thanks for reading. I think there are like maybe two people reading this. Haha. It's fun for me to write though. Rai and Ford are characters and until I have actually sat down and thought about what my days look like, I never realized how awesome my jobs are.
I love you all!
-Jessica
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