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We switched Laurel from disposable to cloth training pants with waterproof covers at the beginning of the month. It started out well, but it seems like she's wetting herself more as the novelty wears off. If she keeps up at this pace, I'll have to do a separate load of training pants every day to keep her covered. I'm weighing my options at this point:
- buy more cloth training pants and covers locally; or
- order PODS® Potty Trainer pads from the Leaps and Bounds catalog.

I'm focusing on the kitchen this week even though this week's FlyLady zone is the bathroom because the counters are covered in stuff. I'd like some attractive free-standing shelves to sit on the counter facing on the entry to hold miscellaneous lightweight things (e.g., bento boxes, boxed snacks, maybe bottles of flavored oils and vinegars) but the shelving I like is half the height I want and the description doesn't indicate whether they're stackable. If anyone has suggestions, I'm looking for chromed steel shelving at a maximum width of 20", preferred height around 3' and depth 7-10" (deeper is okay).

I'm upgrading my installation of Gallery and installing MediaWiki on castle.geek.net this week, so if anything is off there, it's probably because of that. I know my Gallery pages are currently an eye-gouging scrubs blue; the upgrade reset the previously specified background color. I may have to write a skin since in Gallery 1.5, the top-level albums page has no properties option for me to specify a background color and I like the version 1.4 default skin in gray. Bah.

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[info]lenabud wrote:
May. 18th, 2005 06:07 pm (UTC)
Children are so weird about potty training. I am trying to potty train my little girl right now too. I do wish that there were an easier way, however, everyone keeps telling me that she will just do it one day. I hope that day is soon. Hang in there, and good luck with the laundry.:)
[info]oddharmonic wrote:
May. 18th, 2005 10:39 pm (UTC)
Our school district expects incoming kindergarteners to be potty-trained, so I'm ready to push Laurel.

Since I don't mind doing laundry, I think we'll buy more cloth training pants for now and hold off on the PODS pads until later this summer.
[info]mayna wrote:
May. 19th, 2005 12:00 am (UTC)
What if you took the waterproof covers off? Maylie's a really laid-back child and couldn't really care less if she was wet or poopy unless the wetness was all down her legs and backside. Not that it's not messy... but it gave her incentive to use the potty.
[info]oddharmonic wrote:
May. 20th, 2005 06:33 pm (UTC)
We've tried that a few times and Laurel still ignored when she was wet, even in big-girl underwear.

Cloth training pants have helped greatly with not pooping herself, so we're trying new activities/rewards again to keep her motivated to pee in the potty. Oddly enough, flavored lip balm seems to be working well for that.
[info]revme wrote:
May. 19th, 2005 01:46 am (UTC)
Hooray for MediaWiki! And also Gallery! Anyway, let me know if there's anything I can do to help... I suppose that's one good thing about not working is that I'll be able to do more attention on that kind of stuff, both any installation type help I could maybe provide and helping dump stuff in to the wiki...
[info]oddharmonic wrote:
May. 22nd, 2005 06:38 pm (UTC)
I've got a MySQL question to ask Hayden about and then I should be doing good w/r/t the MediaWiki installation.

I feel like I should be writing sticky notes to myself to remember to e-mail people lately.
[info]revme wrote:
May. 22nd, 2005 11:28 pm (UTC)
Hooray! It's too bad I don't know anything about MySQL, otherwise, I could help aside from, you know, just asking if you've tried kicking it.

Hooray for emailing Hayden!
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