Time to Potty

Our son was born in 2007. Just as we were starting to get him used to using the potty. We thought we wouldn’t have to buy anymore diapers for a while, then Jasmine came along. And just when we started to see the light at the end of the tunnel with having to provide Jasmine with diapers she has baby sister on the way. We just can’t seem to get out of buying diapers.

Jasmine's big brother is learning responsibility with his new puppy. He's learning to feed it and take it outside to go potty. For some reason Jasmine picked it on this and is now potty training herself. As crazy as that sounds it only gets crazier. When she initially learned that Spike, her brother's puppy, was going outside to handle his business she wanted to go do her business out there too.

Through her mom's persistence Jasmine learned that puppies may go outside but big girls use the potty. So now she tells us when she feels like she has to go. Jasmine doesn't bother asking for help when she's done. Like the big girl that she thinks she is, she simply hops off, pulls her pants up (usually forgetting to pull her diaper up with them), flushes and goes about her day.

It's both weird and funny that Jasmine has been reluctant to even try using the potty until Spike came along. But that's just Jasmine, unique and independent.

Big Sister

Jasmine is going to be a big sister as we are expecting another baby. She's so funny, when her mom tells Jasmine "There's a baby in my tummy!" Jasmine looks at her mom, points at herself and says, "I'm baby."

We are excited about this new chapter in her journey. She loves her big brother unconditionally, she always wants to play with him and be by his side, sometimes annoying him by being too attached to him. Recently her brother stayed the night with his uncle and Jasmine kept asking, "Where's Frankie?" so I can't wait to see how she will handle being an older sibling; Will she be annoyed if this child is too attached to her like she is with her brother or will she be happy to have somebody looking up to her, following her everywhere, imitating her and always wanting to play with her?

Jasmine has recently started potty training. She usually tells us after she goes potty in her diaper rather than before, but she is trying and that's all we can ask. I joke that we are cursed with diapers because when we started potty training Jasmine's older brother, we found out we were expecting so we went from buying pull ups to buying newborn diapers. And now that we started potty training Jasmine we find out we our expecting again so we'll be back to buying newborn diapers in no time, talk about irony.

Happy New Year

Time for a New Year. While most people are thinking about what their resolutions should consist of, I'm simply thankful for the year 2014 with Jasmine while looking forward to another wonderful year with this beautiful little girl. She's getting closer and closer to talking, saying a few words; "Mama" "Tata", etc. I'm confident her vocabulary will grow in the year 2015, mainly because she's quite the talker lol.

She's started to tell us that she has to go potty, but she usually just ends up playing in the restroom instead, she's quite the character. Because of that we will also start potty training Jasmine in this coming year, so it's time replace her diapers with pull ups and get into the routine of making constant trips to the restroom. I'm so proud of the progress she's making and watching her grow is very excited and I can't wait to see what 2015 holds for her.