Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Nooo!

Photo by Betsy Haynes

You might be hearing more about Genevieve in the near future than Reesa. Not that Reesa doesn't have interesting and entertaining things to say, and not that she fails at being cute, and not that we don't love her. It's just that, lately, much of Reesa's communication has been less than eloquent.

Sometimes when she wears underpants, she doesn't urinate for over two and a half hours. For us parents, this is the danger zone in which she will get distracted by what she is doing and pee where ever she stands. So we will invite her to the bathroom, and when she refuses we offer her the choice between going pee-pee herself or putting on diapers.

"NOOOOO! I won't go pee-pee, and I won't wear pullups!"

Screaming, whining and shouting NOOO! are frequent fliers out of the mouth of Reesa these days, and for us parent it's a lot of trying to balance firmness with love and wondering if your even remotely on the right track when week after week it's the same behavior.

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