She drives me to eat chocolate!

Napping
We are on the brink of a sleep change. Let me just stop and cry for a minute. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Right now I can either:

1. get up at 8 and then let her nap for hour around 3 or 4. And this nap has to be enforced. I have to lay down with her or she'll just screw around till 5pm when it's too late. If she takes the said 1 hour nap, though she'll screw off in bed from 10 -11pm and holler for me and basically drive me crazy.
   
2. have a 9 o'clock wake up time and skip nap altogether. She's a bear most of the evening after 6pm, but she conks out at 9 like a champ.
   

I like neither of these options. I want my toddler who slept 12 hours at night and still took an almost 2 hour nap! Just when you get used to something, they go and change all the rules.

Pooping and the potty training regression ( the big one!)
She suddenly just doesn't want to poop. This is too hard, it hurts, I'll just pass. No matter how many times i tell her that isn't an option, she won't get it. I did tell her if she poops in her pants once more, she's back in pull ups. I despise cleaning terds out of underwear. The last 2 poops have made it in the potty, but she's being very high maintenance about this. She gets the heebie jeebies and you can tell she's doing everything not to crap on herself, but she won't admit she needs to poo. So I take her, talk her off her crazy toddler ledge and then read a book and wait. Sometimes I am rewarded with a poop in the toilet, but not all the time. She was doing MUCH better on this for about a month, but then she had the monster of all terds and now she fears them all. I have explained that if you hold them in, they get larger. I am pushing prune juice and prunes down her. She eats tons of corn, carrots and salad. This is one of those moments when I want to call it a day. I'm done. I don't, of course, but I am sick of trying to explain the pooping process and that it doesn't hurt any less to make mongo terds in your panties than it does on the potty.

Smelliot
This is the the ultimate insult right now. In our house we get into "name calling" feuds no less than 10 times a day. Common names are:

• goober, goobersmack
• gomer pyle
• one-eyed wooly booger
• silly goose, moosy, moose, monkey up a tree

But whoever pulls out the "smelliot" card wins. It's getting overused and will soon be added to the list and a new "trump" name will take its place, but for now, the NAME to remember is smelliot. For anyone not in the know, that is what they call Elliot the deer in Open Season to insult him.

OK...For real..

Ok, all in all she's a really sweet kid with sleeping and pooping issues. More pooping, really, than anything. I'm just tired of smelling her stinky farts and watching her do the "poo-poo" dance, but NO mama I do NOT have to potty. No I won't poop in my panties either, I just WOn't poop at all! But for real, I'd eat chocolate anyway, i LOVE chocolate.

Sunday she did do something good. She finally drove her car that Santa brought her. She's been scared of it up until now. It's also been to cold, so we haven't pushed it. And by "drove" I mean she pushed the gas, while Dan walked around turning the steering wheel. I'm sure it won't take long to catch onto this one, though.

Tomorrow, big day for us. We're going to town. Wal-Mart to be exact. She wanted to go today. She begged me to take her to Wal-Mart so she could eat a samwich at the restraunt and buy some grapes. I was not in the mood. Plus on some level,not too deep, I'm scared of the germs. So tomorrow, I put on my lysol wipes and away we go.

Oh yeah, and for some reason, we're getting a hamster. Anyone else want one?

pics on the other site.... Wonderfully Murry

And that folks is your update for the week. I'd apologize for my (our) life being boring, but I much prefer it that way. Ta ta.