Well that didn't take long

It's official, we're definitely having another baby! We're pregnant! We'll she is, I'm not. I should probably be celebrating. I'm certainly happy. It's just that the first thing that went through my mind was "omg you woke me at 6am to tell me THAT?!" but, once I got my bearings straight I started wondering how I was going to get any work done at home. I have requested that the wife reduce her work schedule because I just keep getting busier. Gonna make the preggy lady do the child rearin. (gonna get in trouble for that one)

The potty training has been one of the most interesting roller coaster rides I've taken in a little while. Emma has pee'd in some of the most interesting places. Take, for example, the fact that she has Dora panties. They have a picture of Doras smiling face on the front of the panties. Emma says to me the other day

"Oh no. I pee'd on Dora's Head"

Do you know how often I've been wanting to do that? Ok so the panties aren't an unusual place to pee. However, there's more. She has a ridable tigger that has giant wheels on it. She can sit on tigger and propel herself around. He's a giant, solid stuffed tigger.

"I pee'd on tigger."

*sigh*

Not quite as bad as the most recent oops. The wife and I are in the living room, Emma is playing in her bedroom. She JUST went pee on her potty and she proclaims. "I POOPED!". This is where we look at each other and contemplate quietly, remembering that she is enjoying naked time, so any poop during naked time is bad. We had a silent parental stand off, quietly watching each other in mock-horror.

Secretly we were just seeing who would move first to clean it up. I won, because I was working. I are naughty. She's getting better, she's asking to go to the potty. If she has an accident, she is catching herself and telling us she needs to go potty, even if she did dribble a little.

I just keep...wondering... as I pull out my hair - Will it ever end? Or will I have a 17 year old daughter, taking her SAT's, who suddenly raises her hand to the teacher and sweetly proclaims: "I pooped."

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