grrlTravels

What a boy!

Yesterday E. and I were making gingerbread men with our Aunt. Actually, my Aunt was making gingerbread men, I was watching and yacking as usual, and we were pretending that E. was helping. So we let him help roll out the dough, we let him push down on the cookie cutters, and we let him decorate the cookies. We didn't have any jimmies here so we decided to use raisins. E. was greatly enjoying pressing the raisins into the cookies.

And then for no discernable reason, he pushed a raisin into the little gingerbread boy's crotch. Instead of ignoring it, I said, "E, is that his p-nis?" And I probably laughed, because it was kind of funny, the placement and everything, you know, and after that it was all over. All of the cookies got p-nises, including the gingerbread girls and the snowmen. Some of the men got two and three raisins in the crotchy area, becoming even more lifelike.

I'm going to need to take this up with his father.

In other news, we are not potty training, per se, but we are sitting on the potty. For a L-O-N-G time. It seemed smart, now that E. is two, to buy a potty chair and start talking about going to the potty. That way, when spring rolls around, the groundwork will be done. So we casually ask, "Do you want to sit on the potty?" and E. looks kind of excited and says, "Yes, Mommy-Daddy. Sit. Potty." So we sit him on the potty and say all kinds of nice things about the potty and using it for the purpose for which it was intended. And E. becomes mildly obsessed with sitting on the potty, but much of the time sits there looking worried. And so I try to explain to him that we are not really expecting him to actually go on the potty, but that sitting there is enough. And then I realize that there is no way to help E. to understand the differentiation between casually sitting on the potty with no ulterior motives and Sitting On The Potty Like A Big Boy. So where does that leave us?

Posted by grrlTravels at January 15, 2005 5:25 PM