sorry for having such a long break between posts. to be honest mental health stuff had got too much on top of me. but I am on higher dose meds, I have a psychiatrist keeping an eye on me and a cpn (community psychiatric nurse) to help, so things are perking up a bit (thank god!!!!) and I'm back on the up swing finally!!!
my goodness....a lot has happened with Tabitha since I last wrote, she has moved up a class in Nursery school (she's now in the bluebells room) and is now pretty much the most popular girl in her class! every day when I take her to nursery most of the other children see her and immediately start shouting "TABITHA!" they have squabbles over who gets to hold her hand walking in the gate!
We have also been on holiday to Whitby with some wonderful friends! and had a fabulous time playing on the beach and looking for bugs at the abbey and we stayed in the youth hostel at the top of the cliffs right next door to the abbey. we found fossils and shells, there was a huge sandpit in the youth hostels garden and Tabitha loved playing in it. the sunshine was glorious and me and coyote got sunburned because we were concentrating so much on keeping Tabitha covered up we forgot about ourselves, and I bought a top hat!
We had a great time trick and treating, Tabitha dressed up as a rainbow witch and we got to meet a lot of random neighbors and we got £1 from a drunk guy, and lots of sweets and generally enjoyed being out looking for monsters in the dark!
We have also applied for Tabitha's primary school. which is a terrifying and big decision. I really hope we have made the right choice for her. our first place school is the one attached to the nursery she's already going to, so it'll be good continuity hopefully with some friends she has already met. our personal experience of the school and the things we have heard from parents and teachers about the school is great. but the ofsted report on the school isn't brilliant.but a lot of that seems to be because of the high level of non English speakers in the area. and the school has since become a new school under a new headmaster...so it's all a bit of a gamble. i really hope we have made the right choice.
we had a lovely day out with Hermione and my mum. we went pond dipping and caught lots of little wiggling things! Tabitha and Hermione get along like a house on fire! its lovely!
and I think the biggest news we have is that we have got Tabitha potty trained! I was actually pretty easy. it only took a couple of days for her to really get the idea and since then accidents have become almost non existent. She was simply ready to do it I think. so as soon as we made it clear that nappies were a thing of the past and that she was going to get sweeties for every pee and poop (stickers were just not doing the job) she wanted to do it. to begin with she still wore nappies at night, but they were always dry in the morning and she was really good at waking in the night to sit on the potty, and then she started to refuse to put on her pull ups at night...and since then she has been totally dry. I also learned to not put pressure on her to sit when she didn't want to. just trusting her to tell us when she needed to go was hard, but she has inherited my husbands massively stubborn streak, so trying to push her only made her less want to. we also timed it so that she would start potty training a week before she moved up rooms in nursery, which meant she had a brand new start in a new room where she had never worn a nappy.
so in a nut shell here are my potty training tips
- wait till they are really REALLY ready, no point rushing the issue. give it a week and if they are not making progress, go back to nappies for a while longer.
- you WILL have accidents occasionally to begin with, especially in the first couple of days, don't make a big deal out of it.
- bribery works!
- lots and lots of praise for successful potty using.
- trust your child and don't push them too hard. if you are having to push hard, they probably aren't ready.
(Hermione and Tabitha with pond dipping equipment)
(Coyote and Tabitha on Halloween)
(me and Tabitha at the abbey pond in Whitby)
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