From a few days of waking up and keeping the diaper off in the morning to air out her rash, I found that Syona has a morning pattern of doing her business then. So Shilpa and I got the idea of getting her started with potty training. Shilpa already bought the potty converter (plugs right into our big potty- see pic below)
Sure enough little Syona was ready for this step. The first day, she went tinkle. The second day, she went pee pee and poo poo. She now goes shortly after we put her on the Can. She even knows to flush by turning around and pointing to the flusher when she is done. So we try to sing a little bye bye poopie song. :)
To round off the routine, we are also trying to get the teeth brushing in before taking her down for the rest of the morning routine of eating/having mum mum before playing.
As you can see, Syona is starting to progress even more from the mother goose phase to toddler phase. After the first week of my three week paternity leave, I have had time to find out more of what she comprehends already. I can tell that she feels closer to me in that she would look for me to hold her and would readily call Dada when referring to me to do something for her. For example, she calls out Dada and points to me to read her books by picking up a particular book (Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb - the one with the monkeys on it). Since I do all the monkey sounds and movement that she seems to enjoy, I think she is associating all monkey things to me now. I guess the State of California has some things right in terms of providing some leave time for paternity purposes since spending more time with Syona really provides bonding memories (now if we can get the budget balanced).
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