Revealed a deep dark secret. Apparently, David wakes up when he has to go to the bathroom at night. He just doesn’t feel like walking all the way to the “bouche toilette.” Or, perhaps, by the time he pays attention to the signal he doesn’t have time. He still has accidents occasionally while playing. In the past, he just wet his bed and went back to sleep. He doesn’t want to potty in his new pajamas, so he gets up. He pulls down his pants, potties in his bed and then comes gets me to change his sheets. This has happened three times this week. It was doubly annoying tonight because our water softener is cycling so I can’t do a load of sheets. Besides, Marissa’s work clothes are in the washing machines and our whites are in the dryer. When I finally get back to bed, I am going to wake up to a load of laundry.
So, I have been awake since about 3:15. I am not ready to lay back down. I am too annoyed. Oh, not at the potty accident. When I walked by the sliding glass door on my way to David’s room, I noticed that our back porch, my whole lawn actually, is covered in snow. It is going to be a long, long winter. Yuck!!!
5 responses so far ↓
debd // 10 October 2009 at 7:02 am |
Getting reluctant children to go through the night can be so frustrating. I hope you guys find a solution to that soon.
Linda L. // 10 October 2009 at 8:04 am |
I’m sorry that you were awakened so early by a problem that sounds, yes, annoying!
When I awoke to the snow, I was thrilled. But then I thought of you and how you would be not so thrilled. David and Beverly will be excited this morning.
Praying for a more peaceful nights sleep tonight.
C.L. Dyck // 10 October 2009 at 11:46 am |
Our snow has melted away, mostly…but today we have to disassemble a chimney that’s trying to fall down. NOT exactly a great late-fall project. Not sure what we’ll do with the hole in the wall…
One of my kids went through a pee-in-the-corner stage, then a few years later, a snitch-empty-detergent-jugs-and stash-them-under-the-bed-full-of-pee stage, both due to nighttime refusal to walk to the bathroom. I cannot express how annoyed I still am. A bed can be replaced. The smell does not just come out of a room.
At least it’s (apparently?) not a physical bladder dysfunction. That’s hard on a kid, particularly when they *want* to make it to the bathroom and can’t. I have another who went through a stage of bladder desensitization–literally couldn’t feel when it was full-to-overloaded. The shame factor was really, really painful for the poor kid.
Michelle // 10 October 2009 at 9:52 pm |
Oh no! That sounds like quite a (clever) yet icky situation you have there. (Maybe you could find him some sheets that he lies as much as the pajamas?)
We had the snow, too. Depressing isn’t it? All of our leaves dropped off of our trees in about three days. We skipped fall this year and went straight to winter.
I hope you are able to straighten out David with the potty situation. (Or else teach him to do laundry.)
Michelle
Lori // 5 November 2009 at 5:08 pm |
Sorry…we have had to put our David in PullUps at night again. He just sleeps too hard to wake up and go. Not to mention that our house is 60º so no one wants to get up and go.