Back Again

It's been a long time since I last blogged. Today was my last day of work. Monday I was at the hospital for a few hours with some symptoms of premature labor. Today was just crazy at work. I was soooo busy trying to get all my loose ends tied up and showing people how to do some of the stuff I do. I wish we could have gotten a replacement in before I left so I could train them. Oh well, I guess it's not my problem. I just hate to leave people in a lurch like that. I don't think the doctors wanted me to go back at all. They made me stay home on Tuesday and then they granted me a few days to get things tied up, thank goodness.



Jack seems well on his way to potty training. I told him a few days ago that we were done with diapers except at bedtime. He seemed ok with it. He has had one accident since then where he wet himself in the car. We have even taken him shopping and he stayed dry. I'd rather take extra clothes and risk an accident than put him in a pull-up or diaper during the day. I want to be extra consistent. He's been telling us he has to go and has even been going number two in the potty which is something he didn't do before at all. I was prompted to start pushing it a little more when the daycare unexpectedly told me he had to be potty trained by September or he couldn't go there anymore. I guess I can understand that policy except that when they insisted he go back into pull-ups several months ago and told me not to push him I asked if there was going to be a problem if he wasn't potty trained by a certain time. The director told me no, don't worry about it. We'll start to worry in September. I interpreted that to mean that in September if he wasn't trained we would try some other tactics. Their "expert" told me to offer him the opportunity to go potty but don't make him go if he doesn't want to. She said that he would probably decide for himself that he was ready to be done with diapers and that it might happen after the babies come home(they won't even be born until August or September and they won't be home until awhile after that)



I was pretty frustrated with the whole thing and decided that due to all the inconsistencies I'm not sure we will be putting him back in that daycare. I'm really disappointed about it because I was mostly happy with them, but these things tend to happen a lot there. We are told one thing by one teacher and another by another teacher and then something else from the director and something different from the assistant director. I remember when I got a call from the daycare saying that we needed a conference because Jack was having behavior problems. His daily notes had only ever once indicated that his behavior was anything less than good. I figured he had a bad day and talked to him about it. His teacher told me almost everyday that he was one of her best behaved kids. It hit like a ton of bricks when the director called me at work and told me to come in. It was completely out of nowhere. I wouldn't have been as upset had I had any indication that he wasn't behaving well-I would have expected the call.



When the director and assistant director decided he should be back in pull-ups I had been on the phone with his teacher earlier in the day and she said that no, they would not put him back in pull-ups, according to them she had been adamant about having him not wear underwear. Also, he had been doing really well except for that week he had had some accidents-99% of which happened with the afternoon teachers which made me wonder who was really having a problem, him or them.(as a side note, I had picked him up completely soaked or poopy many times when he was being watched by the afternoon people before he started potty training-I don't think they were very diligent about it) It seems like they don't want to give kids the benefit of the doubt when something starts to go awry. I thought it was premature to be talking about going back in diapers when he had only had a few accidents in less than a week.



Anyway, I digress. We are interviewing another daycare tomorrow morning. As of tomorrow Jack will no longer be in daycare. I didn't pull him out over this stuff, we just can't afford daycare while I'm not working. Anyway, I need to go lay down. I hope to catch up on everyone's blogs since I won't be at work.