N has discovered a wonderful new trick. Right before he goes the bathroom, he looks at us and says "poop". Then his eyes sort of cross and he produces.<\/p>\n
For those non-parents out there, this is absolutely fantastic. Potty training is a challenge, and having your 16 month old recognize and announce what’s going on should be a real advantage to us in the days to come.<\/p>\n
The key, however, is to realize that his timing isn’t always quite correct. Sometimes, he does his little routine – but nothing actually happens for 5 minutes or so. This can be very disconcerting. He says "poop", appears to do so, you take him to the changing table, get his diaper off – and then everything starts to arrive.<\/p>\n
Very unpleasant.<\/p>\n
To make things a little more challenging, he has gas.<\/p>\n
I know that this doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but when he…ahh…farts (how else do you say that word?) he smells exactly the same as when he poops.<\/p>\n
The other day after dinner, he looked at me and said "poop! poop!". He then proceeded to turn a delicately strained shade of pink. I waited until he was done, then picked him up and took a sniff. Confident in my observations, I took him to the changing table and started to take off his diaper.<\/p>\n
Suddenly the diaper started to move on its own. Taking itself off, as it were.<\/p>\n
Did you know that once you’ve unfastened a diaper, it’s very difficult to hold it in place as it’s being filled up? Particularly so when the wearer is kicking his feet and giggling.<\/p>\n
Yes, N, I will be showing this to all your girl friends when you are older.<\/p>\n
Payback’s a bitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
N has discovered a wonderful new trick. Right before he goes the bathroom, he looks at us and says "poop". Then his eyes sort of cross and he produces. For those non-parents out there, this is absolutely fantastic. Potty training is a challenge, and having your 16 month old recognize and announce what’s going on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}