Taking a stand
Posted April 7th, 2008 | Filed Under: Blog“Daddy?”
“Yes, Emme?”
“Daddy. Emme has to pee.”
“You have to or you did?”
“Have to.”
“Alright, do you want to go in the potty?”
“Hmm.”
“OK, let’s go”
“Emme pees in mommy and daddy’s potty.”
“OK, sure.”
“Emme pees like daddy.”
“Yes, you can pee in daddy’s potty. Let me get this diaper off …”
“No, Emme pees like daddy.”
“What? No, no. You have to sit down. Stop — sit down!”
“Emme’s peeing like daddy!”
“Well Emme’s going to clean up like daddy, too.”
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I’m so glad I have a boy
BWAHAHAHA!!!
Friend of mine has a daughter that asked her mom for a hose once. Her mom, a bit confused, asked “You mean a hose like Daddy uses in the garden?”
“NO Mommy, a hose like Daddy uses in the bathroom”
A hose?! Wow. Gifted dad.
According to my mother, when I first started potty training, I also demanded to be allowed to “pee like Daddy.” When she informed me that it wasn’t to be, I was allegedly so upset that I went on a potty-training strike for awhile, and simply refused to learn to pee girl-style. (No worries, though. I eventually relented, and have no lingering issues, I promise.)
Briar has taken to tucking her heel beneath her bottom while she pees, which, she recently revealed to me, makes the pee “spray like a swoosh across the floor.”
I guess sitting down does have some benefits …
oy.
just oy.
my son came to me last tuesday and said he forgot exactly where the toilet is and accidentally peed in the trash can. He’s 7. He hasn’t done that since he was very little. I tried really hard to be patient, while also emotionally prepping for a big clean up. And it was exactly dinner time. sigh. Then he looked at me in the eye and said “april foools!”
oy.
That’s classic.
My boy refuses to pee standing up. “Daddy makes pee pee standing up, and I make pee pee sitting down.” It’s a simple statement of fact. He’s not interested in negotiating over it.
Wow. I’m never going to get on his bad side. That is just an awesome trick. oy indeed.
That is so cute and funny.
My husband would sit whenever the girls were potty training - this was for two reasons 1) because we have all girls and they learn by example, and 2) it made him uncomfortable when they tilted their heads, pointed and asked “What’s that daddy?” Maybe you should cop-a-squat. ::BIG GRIN::
And so begins your life of sitting on the toilet…
It was inevitable, dontcha think? *teehee*
Yes — yes I think it was.
I used to wonder how a stay-at-home dad with a little girl would deal with a situation like this (kids learn by example and all that). Now I know. LOL! You have your work cut out for you.
Clearly, the only way to potty train this girl right is for you to start sitting down to pee.
That’s so cute I almost threw up.
We are soooo looking forward to that, so thanks for the preview.
Greaaatttt … more to clean. thanks.
i ABSOLUTELY love your daughter!!!!!!!! She is the cutest thing, and she competely cracks me up.
Unfortunately, I have a truckload of boys (and was quite concerned in the beginning about teaching them the proper way to pee), but I wouldn’t have a bit of wisdom in this area… Sorry!
I read recently (potty training reading is soooo fascinating, n’est pas?) that that’s normal, and after once or twice and making them help clean up, it will stop.
If you stand, Melody, I’ll sit.
And yes, mama, the novelty of peeing on her ankles seems to have warn off in the past day. Yeah!
that’s kind of sweet, in a borderline icky kind of way
Hilarious!
I think she needs a plumbing lesson.
Hee!
Our oldest could hit a target on the shoot range when she’s sitting down! I think my husband was jealous with her aim & ability(?) (The girl could hit the wall w/out trying while sitting down on the toilet. I only wish I were kidding.) So we had the added benefit of teaching her to lean forward so that she would actually make it into the toilet. However, I do know that her little skill will come in handy in college when the line to the girls bathroom is super long. And I’ll bet she doesn’t ruin any shoes in the process. Not that I’d know anything about that, I’m just saying…
Rad. I love it.
Hey, at least she has a great role model
This is hilarious, and I foresee it in my future, because my daughter is very Daddy-fied, and because she seems to strive to be the opposite of my son (who is always gun-shy when I let him stand up, usually in filthy public bathrooms– I can’t tell you how many seat protectors I have made out of yards of TP) in as many ways as she can manage.