Toilet Training!

Day 1- 

Woke up and put undies on, she was so excited to wear them. Quickly realized this wouldn't work as she ofc did not understand how to hold her pee so would dribble pee every few minutes just like she would her nappies. After the first two undies getting wet in the first five minutes we decided to just have her butt naked for the day. 

Gave her lots of water, offered milk and put blueberries in the water. 

Everytime she peed a bit we rushed her to the toilet to try and catch her midstream. Always reminding her that pee goes in the toilet and to let us know when she needs to pee. We don't expect her to let us know until maybe day 3 but setting the expectations early. 

All morning we spent cleaning up pee from the floor and almost no pee in the toilet but we kept positive. 

We caught maybe two wees late morning midstream and gave big praise and celebration. Right before her nap she hadn't peed in a while (not even a dribble), and so I took her to pee before her nap - we sat on the toilet and she did a big pee! So excited for her. 

During nap wore pull ups, but when she woke up we took them off again. 

After her nap it took maybe an hour until she did another pee, caught midstream and got some in the toilet. 

Realized that she had really slowed down on dribbling pee in between her big pees. We think she is learning to hold her pee until toilet time! 

Took her to pee before dinner and she managed to pee, stayed dry through dinner, had a bath (might have peed there), but dry until we took her to pee before bed, where she peed immediately as Simon put her on the toilet. !!! So amazing. Definitely think she is putting the connections together. 

Tomorrow we will put her in undies so she knows that even with undies on the pee still goes in the toilet. 

Hasn't poo'd yet but it will happen when it happens..

Our big girl !

Day 2- 

Woke up, took off diaper and put undies on. 

Reminded her that pee and poo don't go on the floor or in the undies, they go in the toilet. 

First three hours of the day she had small dribbles of pee in her undies but each time she dribbled we took her to the toilet and she didn't pee. 

Finally at 10:30 I took her to the toilet and she did a full wee! So proud.

Half hr later she made a face like she was bearing down so I rushed her to the toilet and caught the poo as it was coming out! She did her first poo in the toilet!! 

Right before lunch we took her and she did another wee. 

Right after lunch we took her and she did her second poo!! 

Just before nap she said "mummy, I want to poo" so we went to the toilet and she did another wee.

Very successful morning, no accidents other than the first three dribbles

By nap time she even told me she wanted to go and went unprompted which is wild. 

After nap went over to Chiu house for dinner, first time with pants on. very distracted playing with Zoey and had a wee accident and a poo accident. No successful toilet time at all. 

As soon as we got home and we did toilet before sleep she did a big pee.

Day 3- 9:15 first pee, motioned by grabbing her front 

9:45 timer - pee in the toilet 

10:15 tried

10:45 tried  

11:36 told me she needed toilet but nothing

12:44 told me she needed to poo and did a poo!! Yay! 

Nappy for nap, slept from 1:15-3pm

4:30pm said she needed to poo poo and did a wee

Mentioned she had a sore tummy during dinner, maybe a bit constipated? 

No accidents all day!!!

Day 4- no success and Childcare today, two big accidents and spoiled her undies/clothes. 

Probably different environments and educators cannot keep a close enough eye to pick up her cues. They try to take her every so often but she doesn't do anything in the toilet, then a while later had accidents. 

Came home and was fine on the toilet did three wees and a poo before bed. All done with prompting though, sitting her on the toilet eg when she gets home, before we sit down for dinner, after dinner, before bed etc. 

Day 5 - day at grandparents 

Put her on the toilet in the morning when she wakes up, before we leave, when we get to grandparents, no pee..

Has a poo accident after breakfast. Rushed her to the toilet saying poo goes in the toilet. 

Took her again before we go out for walk, once we get to the park, before we leave the park, no pee. 

Finally we put her on the toilet when we come home from the park and she does her first wee. 

11:15 am. 

Possibly am taking her too much preemptively? But also realizing that she doesn't go unprompted.. 

Had to leave to take Didi home for his nap but she had another poo accident right after lunch.

After her nap she had a pee accident before they left to aunties house 

At aunties house she managed to pee in the toilet twice

Not sure how cc is going to go tmr.. they may have to go back to putting pull ups on her for sanitary reasons :/ she is gonna be so confused. 

Day 6- guess who had zero accidents at cc?!?!

My not so baby babygirl!!!!!! 

So proud of her.. did lots of pees and even a poo at cc, prompted by educators every hr

Still hasn't self initiated but so great it seems like she can hold in her pees and poos until she is at a toilet!!! 

She's doing so amazing. 

Will keep it going and see how she progresses. I expect her to still have accidents until she can tell us when she needs to pee or poo though!

26 months

Such a chatterbox, strings full sentences together for a while now.

Can run through every letter of the alphabet at random and tell me what it's for, ie R is for rainbow, x is for xylophone etc 

Can tell us stories about what just happened 😂

Loves to dance and be a ballerina.

Speaks mostly English with a Chinese words sprinkled through. 

Can understand much more Chinese than she can speak 

Tomorrow we are attempting toilet training and she is very excited to wear Di Ku (undies) :D 

23 months

Violet has a new baby brother Watson 🩵 

Our toddler is suddenly so independent, can play by herself for ages while we tend to Didi. I was surprised as I was expecting maybe some jealousy or some calls for attention but she seems to know that our hands are full and doesn't ask to be picked up if we are holding Didi and is quite happy to sing songs and dance with us close by. 

The only obvious change is that drop offs at childcare have been difficult and she has been more reliant on her tiger comforters at childcare. Will hold on to tiger all day for comfort! 

Violet says hi to Didi in the mornings but otherwise pretty nonchalant about his presence! 

We have such a clever girl.. can recognize all the letters of the alphabet and when we start to sing "A is for.. " she can fill in the blanks - A is for apple, B is for baby, C is for carrot etc etc. 

She seems to have a great memory. 

Can put all the letters of the alphabet back into the puzzle. 

Knows most animals and loves sea animals in particular. Loves dinosaurs too - can identify t rex, pterodactyl, stegosaurus and triceratops! ("Tops")

Loves to sing, good with clapping to the rhythm. 

Knows so many words!! If you say it once she will remember for next time. 

Chinese words sprinkled here and there - we are still speaking to her mostly in Chinese and she understands however most of her vocab is English. 

Asks for "shanwichh" at night so mum and dad will give her a kiss simultaneously 

"Dum dum" for dumplings 

"Mell" when she wants to smell something 

"Help, stuck"

"Da ba" for spider - took us ages to figure out what she was saying

"Nip nip" for crab 

"Nake" for snake 

20months

Can recognize most letters of the alphabet!

We all think she is very clever for her age :) 

Can recognize all family members 

Using both Chinese and English to speak 

Had her first overseas trip to Bali! 

Spent a week in Bali with mum, dad, gong gong and porpor 

17m

Last month took violet on a Disney cruise with da jiu jiu's family :) 

Have been on our first camping trip, was raining all day but violet still has fun splashing in all the muddy puddles! 

Sleep was pretty messed up after all this travelling, she wouldn't sleep unless we were in the cot with her for a period of time, and then slowly even that wasn't enough for her to fall asleep! Decided to sleep train as it was getting so hard to put her down.. some days she didn't sleep until 9pm as she kept crying to leave the room. 

First night of delayed settling she took 35 mins to sleep. 

Second night only 10 mins with one check in.. our Violet is amazing. Felt horrible hearing her cry but so important for her to sleep independently. Especially with baby 2 coming soon! 

16m

Knows who all the family members are - por por, gong gong, jiu jiu, ye ye, mama, gu ma , gu jerng - if you ask her to point at them she knows who is who! 

Words/sounds: bubble, nana, neigh neigh, baa baa, ocpu (octopus), nononono, mao maooooo, open, up!, oops, ouch, oh no, doots 😆, this 

New skills: washing hands, wiping face, holding hands 

15m 3wks

Woke up this morning, pointed to mum and said "mama!", then pointed to dad and said "baba!" ❤️

Our little toddler is so full of energy and smiles. We can see so much personality in such a little person.. loves being social and warms up to people quickly. Isn't afraid to ask someone to help her get a book or sit in their lap to read. She's very helpful, helping people wash their hands in her kitchen sink and helping people clap their hands haha.. 

Learnt how to climb the couch the other day.. 

Excited when she attempts to jump - although she doesn't come off the floor I feel she is getting close! She knows to bend her legs into a squat and stand up very fast, sometimes one leg comes off the floor. Hahah.. 

Loves nursery rhymes and can sign along with many of them. Particular fav is row row row your boat, loves to "snap" along to "if you see a crocodile", and then pretends to scream. 

Started being able to put simple shapes through the shape sorter, circle, square, triangle and star. Sometimes needs some help but overall very good! 

Loves playing back and forth chasey with anyone who will play! 

14m 3w

Stopped bottles cold turkey this week, gave baby formula in a straw bottle before going into the room for her nap, and before brushing teeth at night. 

After one night we decided to do 50/50 cows milk and formula, she took well to it. 

After two days of 50/50 we changed over to full cows milk. 

She had no problems with this change. Such an adaptable baby ❤️ 

Knows lion, bee, elephant, duck, dog, cat, snake, crocodile and makes the noises associated. 

Understands when mum says it in English and in Chinese 

Dad is the fav of the moment, always wants dad and clings to him!! 

Says the words More, Ball, Oops, Tea pot 😊

14m

Says Nana for banana

"More" 

Signs cream by rubbing hands together and wiping face 

"Come here" 🫴 

Started exploring using fork to eat 

13m 3w

Poses with hands under her chin when we saw "smile"! 

Sits when she wants snacks 

Tried to put on her own socks

Will turn on the sound machine when she wants to sleep the put her tiger into bed.

Sits on lap when she wants to read a book 

Knows the sign for "more"when she wants more food 

Knows the sign for "water" and "eat" 

Can use a fork! 

Knows to touch food to see if it is hot first and knows to blow food when it's too hot :) 

First trip to the Adelaide Zoo, we got annual passes!! 

12m 3w

Knows where here head is, heads shoulders knees and toes

Party freeze song is one of her favs, knows how to FREEZE!

Can sign Please well now when she wants something. 

Signs thankyou when mum signs thankyou to her, signs "no no no" shaking her finger

"Bears now asleep, shh shh shh" holding finger up to her mouth. 

Blows kiss when asked 

"Wo wo shou" puts out her hand to shake 

When someone says "Mmm!", Will bend head forward for person to kiss 😘

Likes playing the game where mum and dad on opposite sides of the room and she will run to cuddle back and forth..

Favourite person definitely Gong gong these days. If she catches a glimpse of him and he isn't holding or playing with her straight away she will burst into tears. 

Doing SO WELL with swimming. 

When dad holds her to "swim", she will kick her legs now when moving forward.

Head under water is very natural for her now.

Walks to daddy across the floating mattress with ease!! 

Can climb stairs at the playground now. Very social girl at the playground, wants to play with everyone!

On one nap a day  :) 

FIRST WORD

First word aside from mama and baby - .. TIGER!!! 🥰

12m1w

Learned how to sign "please", rubbing her chest with palm, will sign "please" when asked or when she would like something! 

Few weeks ago Simon started submerging her in water during swim class! She's a champ. 

Very dextrous! Pressed buttons with finesse

 

Can pat Pocky gently now :)

Figured out how to put magnets on the fridge!!

"Cleans" the table wiping back and forth with tissue/cloth

When you're happy and you know it clap your hands, stomp your feet, shout hurray!! She's can do them all when dancing with mum and dad :)

11m 3w

Points to her nose when you ask her where it is 

Gives her Tiger a kiss when Tiger is held up to her face 

Moved off bed safely turning onto belly then landing on feet first today! 

Really enjoying dancing to music :)

11m 2 w

Puts objects into boxes, can put ball into the hoop of the spiral ball game toy we have for her! 

Walking everywhere, is now her preferred form of transport

LOVES books. Absolutely obsessed with flipping the pages

Fav books: Hairy Maclary, Heads, shoulders knees and toes, where is little kitten and where is spot 

Gong gong and por por taught her how to pray 🙏

Tilts head to the side randomly, super cute.

Points to the sky when she hears Aeroplanes flying by 

11m

Turned 11 mths today

All of a sudden has started to LOVE looking at books. Will get upset if we don't sit and read with her! Sits for a long time looking at the pages, especially loves the flip and feel ones 

Let's find the Kitten and Hide and seek in the Forest are her favs at the moment. So precious. 

Consistently splashes along when we sing "if you're happy and you know it make a splash!" In the bath!! 

Her cognitive development has suddenly just sky rocketed!! 

1/6 

Knows how to take lids off her sudocrem tub and put it back on! Knows how to uncap and recap her Bepanthen nappy rash cream!

10m3w

Had her second sswimming lesson and loved the water. Loudest baby in the class!

Able to take many steps at a time, walking across her room from mum to dad. 

Learning how to turn on the light switch of the bathroom when we go in for a bath. 

When we say "hello?" Or "wei?", She puts her hand and whatever object she is holding up to her ear 📞

Learned how to open cupboards and drawers.. Closed a drawer on her fingers, after a short cry went straight back to the drawer. 

Loves to play with and take out everything in the drawers.

Figured out how to put shapes into the shape sorter box :) 

First Mother's Day