04.01.09
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Last week, I got a Baby Center email update telling me that my “baby” may be ready to start potty training. 


DELETE. 

OOPS.  See, according to the pediatrician (who I pretty much forced in to telling me that Baby-Ko’s language skills were advanced for his age, to which I literally did a high school/napoleon dynamite “yeeessss!”), Baby-Ko is in fact ready to start “potty training.” He would like to see him fully trained, or at least interested and “engaged” in the toilet and all that it entails by the age of 2… which is in 6 months…. EEK.  That’s a lot of stinkin’ pressure… literally.
Twenty minutes ago, I just heard Bee-Bee and Baby-Ko playing.
Baby-Ko: “Poo poo!”
Bee Bee: “Okay, you go poo- poo.”
Baby-Ko: “No! No, Poo-Poo!”
Bee-Bee: “Oooff?! You go poo-poo, Ooof?!”
Baby-Ko: “No!!!” 
Three minutes later….
Bee-Bee: “Time to change your diaper, baby.”
Baby-Ko: “Nooooooooooo!!!” 
They go in to his bedroom…
Bee-Bee (changing his diaper): “Whoooah! Big poopie! Big big poopie!”
Baby-Ko: “Noooo!”
Bee-Bee: “Ooof! Baby-Ko, Ooof!”
Baby-Ko: “No, ooof!”
Bee-Bee: “Yes, Oof. Very very oof. OOF.”
I almost went flying in and begged her to stop the Oof-ness but I couldn’t. I was frozen. Am I being too paranoid? Am I over thinking this? Two seconds later, he was laughing and they were playing again. But what if this pooping nonsense is really stopping him up- really holding him back– I want him to be free. Free to poop. Free to smell. Free to be!  
THOUGHTS? DO I SAY SOMETHING? OR SHOULD I EVEN GIVE A SH*T????? 🙂
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