Kiersten’s Blog

Warning: this is a long one. This may be a gross subject for some of you but I haven’t posted poop progress in a while so if you don’t want to read it, I won’t be offended. I get a little worried when London goes more than a couple of days without pooping. This usually means she is or soon will be constipated. It had been two or three days so last night before she went to bed, I gave her a laxative. She pooped right away and I assumed that was not the laxative doing it’s job yet. I let her stay in her diaper as long as possible this morning, hoping she would do her business before I had to give her a bath. The business did not get taken care of. Mid-morning she started telling me that her tummy hurt. Then she started telling me her bum hurt. I could see when she would have the painful bouts and would rush her to the bathroom. I tried to explain to her that if she would just poop, everything would be all better. Her bum wouldn’t hurt anymore. For some reason, she doesn’t care. She would rather be in pain. After about 2 hours of running her to the bathroom every ten minutes, I started getting desperate. Before I get too far, let me mention that London has a plethora of prizes that she receives by doing her dirty work in the potty. She gets 10 stickers on her chart! That’s a lot, in case you didn’t know. She also gets to choose a prize from the prize bag. In addition, she gets M&Ms. She has also had a sticker book in the cupboard I bought for her months ago that I promised she could play with when she pooped in the potty. Lastly, she would get to call Jeff Wiggle (okay, it was really Taylor with an Aussie accent but London didn’t know). I would think that any one of these rewards would be enough, but apparently, pooping is really that bad. Anyway, back to my story. As time wore on this morning, I was getting more and more desperate, as was London. She was crying and in pain, sitting on the potty because she wouldn’t just let it come out. Finally I told her that if she went poop in the potty today, I would take her to Sea World today (if it wasn’t raining). I told her that as soon as Daddy came home from work with the car, if she pooped, we would get in it and go directly to Sea World. I don’t think that’s what pushed her over the edge, but she finally pooped. I don’t think she really meant to, but she did. She was so much happier after that. And so was I.
Later this afternoon (since it was raining so we didn’t go to Sea World) London and I decided to walk across the street to Michael’s to buy some much needed stickers. I didn’t have one left, let alone ten. Of course I make her go potty before we leave the house. Unbeknownst to her, as she was peeing, she was also pooping. She was pretty excited to see that she had done it again. Twice in a day! Now I’m pretty sure it won’t happen again for another six months. Either way, she got another prize from the prize bag and was quick to remind me that I promised her just yesterday that she could get something really cool at the Disney store if she pooped in the potty two times. I was sure it would be a number of months before that happened. Obviously I was wrong. I promised her a trip to the Disney store in the near future and we took off to Michael’s, umbrella in hand. Once we found the stickers we wanted to buy, waited in line, had the cashier run back for a price check because the stickers we were buying were marked on clearance and they didn’t ring up that way, and were ready to pay, I noticed a problem. I didn’t have my wallet. I promised the cashier I would be back in ten minutes. I walked outside and called Taylor, hoping he would run my wallet to us. But as I was calling him, it started to rain. London and I walked home, empty handed. Just as we were walking up the stairs to our apartment complex, our umbrella turned inside out. We ran up the stairs, trying to keep as dry as possible without the umbrella flying away from us. We made it home, cold and wet and stickerless. It looks like I have my work cut out for me tomorrow. The only problem: I can’t figure out how Sea World is going to fit into the schedule. Maybe we’ll have to save that excitement for another day.