Our Little Baby Blog

Something's not right here

Anna and I are flying solo tonight because Mike has a friend in town and he's gone off to have adult-type fun. I decided this afternoon I'd try making pigs in a blanket for dinner (all kids love those, right? It's in the manual.). So this evening I cranked up some music, preheated the oven and started assembling the dough and hot dogs. About half way into the operation I smelled something suspicious coming from Anna's diaper. We walked back into Anna's room and changed her diaper and instead of putting her pants back on I just let her run around in her diaper and long shirt while I finished dinner.

Fast forward, the pigs in a blanket turn out perfectly! Yummy. Just like the manual indicates. I lifted up Anna and put her in her booster seat and we sit down for dinner. After a few minutes, in the midst of Anna trying to converse with me about cats and mouse and Dada, I see her start poking around down there. Hmm... Oh well, and we go about eating. Well, then a few minutes later, I see it again. This time I get up from my chair to make sure I haven't inadvertantly put her diaper on the wrong way or sat her down on top of a toy.

That's when I see it. I see Anna, sitting in her chair and her diaper is, well, um, it's not there.

NO DIAPER. Nope. None.

"Anna, where is your diaper?" And she looked back at me like, "what? that old thing. Puleez. I took it off years ago." So I pulled her down and we started looking for it. I'm guessing she threw it in the trash because I don't see one lying around anywhere. Although I'm definitely going to do one more sweep behind the curtains before I go to bed tonight.

I can't believe I didn't notice it when I sat her down in the chair.

We just bought a big girl potty last week and we've been practicing sitting on it several thousand times a day. I don't know if this one of the signs that she is ready to actually start potty-training or that I just need to start using duck tape. I did walk her into the bathroom and asked if she wanted to go potty on the big girl potty, but she just started shredding toilet paper so I don't think she's thinking on that level quite yet.

Well, I'm off to search for a missing diaper. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!