Potty training

Zach said that he was going to sleep in my bed naked tonight. He stripped off his fleece, footed PJ's (his choice of bedtime attire, not mine) & then his diaper & tried to crawl into my bed. Ugh what?!? He is daytime potty trained, but will happily go in a diaper if it happens to be on. However, he is still in his crib at night & wears a diaper. He is dry most mornings, but I don't feel like trying out the nighttime potty training gin my bed.

We did sleep through the night the last three nights (well, Zach did. I have a cold & have been coughing). That's the first stretch he's had of sleeping through the night since June 16th. Woo Hoo. Let's hope that it lasts. I did tell him that he will be sleeping in his crib tonight even if he falls asleep in my bed. NO way am I going to have what precious little sleep that I get interrupted by him.

Speaking of adventures in sleeping. Zach just came out & told me that he spilled my water on my bedside table. At least he told me. I thanked him for that, cleaned it up & back to bed he went.

This picture is how I got Zach to eat breakfast the first day that he wore underpants to school. He wouldn't get off of the potty until he peed. Too funny.

Transitions

Zach is starting his 4th week of big boy Preschool tomorrow. The first couple of weeks were pretty tough. I've never done well with transitions & it seems that Zach is that way too. The tantrums & neediness started the Thursday before the school transition (we had preschool orientation that evening). He started waking at least once a night (but up to three times) the night before school started & we've only had two nights since that he slept through.

He had his last Parent/ Tot swim lesson the first Tuesday (Erin usually took him, but I went in with him). He. was. a. mess! Other instructors were making comments about never having seen him act that way before. Ugh. He only does those spectacular tantrums for me. Awesome. He got upset because he wanted to put the red ball in the bucket & another kid got to do it (this tid bit is important).

Zach woke up the FOLLOWING Sunday at 2 AM crying about the ball incident. Boy this kid perseverates on stuff (sounds like someone I know......).

Overall though, it is going well. He is happy to go to school, gets excited to see the teachers & do the fun stuff (they get to go swimming every day in the summer). He had one big boy swim lesson so far & did great. The new teacher commented on how happy he is.

We're still having some issues with the transitions from car to school & school to car. I'm working on some stuff to help him with that.

Hopefully we'll both be getting some consistent sleep soon.