Tonight, with Kylie’s insistence, Tiffany has put Kylie to bed without a diaper. Normally Kylie wears a diaper to bed because she does not usually wake in the night to go to the bathroom, and as such wakes up wet. Tonight, when Mommy was getting Kylie ready, Kylie threw a fit, insisting that she did not want to wear a diaper, that she wanted to wear her panties like a big girl. So Mommy let her go to bed without a diaper but with only a little bit of water before going to bed. We will
have to see in the morning if she wakes up dry or not.

Today we took a huge leap in Kylie’s potty training. Tiffany put Kylie down for a nap as usual, and in continuation with our potty training steps she was not wearing a diaper. About an hour after lying down she called for Mommy from the top of the stairs saying that she had gone potty. Tiffany thought that Kylie had went in her panties in her room as she only wears diapers at night now; however, when Tiffany got upstairs, Kylie was in the hallway jumping up and down without any panties saying she went potty in the toilet by herself!! Needless to say Mommy was very excited. To top it off, Kylie not only went potty by herself, she went poop as well. We are so proud of her and have a feeling this is the final stage of her potty training.

Today we went and visited Uncle Chris, Aunt Tracey, and Cousins Delaney and Madelyn. After visiting for a few minutes Madelyn had to go down for a nap, so she stayed with her grandma and the rest of all went for a day of fun. We walked through Elizabeth Park and over to an area where they were offering pony rides. Both the girls got to ride on their own pony next to each other, and they both seemed to have a fun time while riding them. Chris and I both took pictures and videos, in fact the video that Uncle Chris took can be viewed here. Eventually I will get all the pictures I took and any others I receive from Uncle Chris and Aunt Tracey up into the gallery. After the pony rides we played at Bishop Park and even had some ice cream at a nearby ice cream shop. It was a very nice day, and watching Kylie and Delaney running around the park and holding hands was simply adorable!

Tiffany was able to get a child suppository today, and though she was not looking forward to having to use it, it did work. After Tiffany brought it home, she sat down with Kylie and showed it to her, she then explained what it was, where it went, how Mommy was going to use it, and what it would do. She explained to Kylie that because she had not gone potty for a long time, that she now needed some help, and that this medicine would provide that help. All things considered she took the supposatory very well and only complained after it had been in for a few minutes. Thankfully that is all it took and shortly there after Kylie had her first bowel movement in four days. Afterwards Kylie said her tummy felt better and she seemed much more happy. We are going to put her back in diapers for a few days just in case she has any accidents and to allow her to “relax” a little. We are all happy that she is feeling better now and hope not to have ever use this medication ever again.

For the past few days Kylie has presented us with an odd problem. Every few minutes she will say she needs to go potty, and seeing as we are working on our potty training, we gladly take her into the bathroom and place her on the toilet, happy she has told us she needs to go.  However, with the exception of a little pee, she does not go potty and even the pee is not an every time occurrence.  This process has been repeating itself for about 4 days now, and during these four days Kylie has not had a bowel movement. Thinking this is definitly more than long enough, Tiffany called the doctor and explained the situation. The doctor’s assumption is that the last time Kylie did have a bowel movement it was rough and hurt, as such Kylie has been withholding and now has caused herself to become overly constipated; their suggestion: a child supposatory. Because it is already pretty late for Kylie, Tiffany is going to try this tomorrow and hopefully it will give Kylie some relief.

We have been working very diligently to get Kylie fully potty trained and out of diapers. The process has been going fairly well and we are now going on a week with her only wearing diapers at night. Kylie has been very good at letting us know when she needs to go to the bathroom, and tonight was no exception, but rather a first. Every night we have Kylie go to the bathroom before she goes to bed each night, and then she puts on a diaper and goes to bed. Tonight was the same, but after being in bed for a little over an hour Kylie got up and called downstairs to Mommy. When she went upstairs Kylie said “I need to go potty,” and so Mommy took her into the bathroom, and much to our delight, Kylie went to the bathroom again. This is the first time Kylie has gotten up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, perhaps this is the first step in the next phase of her potty training.

We took Kylie to the doctor today, she had a 104 fever. Upon examination the doctor found that Kylie’s throat was very red and irritated so they ran strep culture, which came back negative. This makes the doctor think it’s a virus of some sort. Unfortunetly this means there is nothing that can be given to help with remove it from her system. We will continue to give her Tylenol to help with the fever and try to have her take it easy for a little while. She should be fine in a few days.

Kylie’s ultrasounds came back normal and clean, so there are no abnormalities within her urinary track. This is both good news, and bad news. It’s good news, obviously, because there are no abnormalities within her urinary track that might potentially cause issues in the future. It’s bad news because should Kylie develop another UTI we will need to run the test for vesicoureteral reflux. This is clearly something that we don’t want to happen, as it would be a very uncomfortable test, for Kylie and for us. Hopefully we will not need to worry about this, and Kylie will not have another UTI.

Today Kylie had her ultrasound at U. M. Mott’s children hospital to check for irregularities within her urinary tack that might have caused her infection. She handle the situation very well. There was some fussing and a little crying in the begining, but with Mommy and Daddy next to her Kylie calmed down pretty quickly and the process went very smoothly. We should know the results of the scans in a couple of days.

Kylie went with Mommy and Aunt Sissy today and her very first professional manicure and pedicure. She had lots of fun and was even able to hold still for the entire time. She picked out her own color and really likes her new nails. She even called me to say “My nails are pretty.” Here is a picture of them that Tiffany took with her phone.