*Remember that three year olds only speak in all caps and exlamation points.*
“I GOTTA GO POOP!”
“Hurry up, then. Don’t play while you are sitting there and don’t get up until you tell me you are finished so I can help you wipe.”
“OKAY MOMMY!”
He runs into the downstairs bathroom and begins slamming things around.
“POTTY SEAT! [...]

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I’m not great at making new year’s resolutions.  I usually avoid making them for fear of failure and when I do make them I list them as goals–something a little less threatening then an actual resolution.  Resolve is so serious.  So final.
Last year I made a list of goals and in looking back at them [...]

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Yeah. I said it.  Today. 
He’s three.  He knows how to go potty.  He stays dry more times than not, as long as he’s wearing pullups.  He does it at school.  Most of the time he does it here at home.  My first two were potty trained at the age of 27-28 months.  I took a week when [...]

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Potty training. (Yeah, I’m a mommyblogger, deal with it.)
It has not been easy this time. And yes. It was easy last time. The first two? They followed directions with a minimum of fuss and at the age of roughly 28 months I stuck them in underwear and within [...]

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I often wonder what we are thinking when we set off on these trips with three young children.
We are in Memphis tonight. The day wasn’t so bad other than we didn’t leave the house until 2 1/2 hours after I had planned. Oh and it took us five times to leave the house [...]

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