Such a big deal for us!

I got exciting news to tell you all – Kaitlyn has not had any accident at nighttime for three days in a roll! You all probably think what a big deal? Just now? Yes, now! That is a big deal for us!

Actually, she was off diaper at night time for a couple of week before she turned four. But during those weeks, she had accidents about once a week. I figure she wasn’t quite ready, and she was little frustrated every time she found out about the wet bed, plus we were too lazy to get up in the middle of the night to train her. So we all gave up, letting her wearing diaper since then, free to eat and drink whatever she wants before bedtime, figure someday, somehow, she’ll be able to do it.

Monday night, she forgot to put diaper on as she went to bed. The next morning, she woke up around 7am realizing she did not pee-pee, she was so excited! She told daddy, grandma, and grandpa… She said it’s her 4th time! ( I don’t know how she counted, anyway…) Then I told her to try it again next day, she did it again. Wow, that counts five! (She got the number right this time. I guess she has her own way of keeping track of her success, haha)

Yesterday was her first day back to school for summer session. The first thing she told me when I picked her up was " I don’t need to nap anymore! I love it! Had so much fun! I did two challenge works!" That is really good news! I planned to ask Ms. Anny on Friday to let her skip nap time getting ready for kindergarten in the fall, but Ms Anny already planned ahead of me! Such considering! Ms. Anny is so far the best teacher I have met. She devoted her whole life in teaching young kids. She has never married but raised her younger sister. She is awesome!

Anyway, Kaitlyn takes Ms. Anny’s word seriously – that she’s a kindergartner! But she also feel sad that other kids complained that she should not be a kindergartner since she is not five yet! Well, my little girl, you’re doing great! You don’t need to care too much about what other kids said about you all the time! Be yourself and trust yourself!

So last night, I told her kindergartner don’t need to wear diaper at night, and she can do it. She was a little hesitated, but she did it again!

Wow, if she could finally get off diaper, that’s will be a big milestone for her, and for us! Now, I think one of the reasons was probably if she knows she has diaper on, she would be so dependent on diaper then pee-pee every night. Now without diaper, she knows she was able to hold on longer and feels much more comfortable. We just need to trust her more and let her do it by herself!

I slept with her last two nights to keep an eye on how she does, and noted she woke up middle of the night (ever since she was a baby, she barely had any whole night sleep ) The first night, she cried "so boring" (that’s another story to write about later), second night, she asked for water and said hungry. I didn’t respond, just let her whine for a minute, then she went back to sleep again. I know if I wasn’t there, she would walk to our room, stand next to the bed in the dark, saying "I can’t sleep, mommy". That scared the hell of me couple of times already…

Gosh, I made such big a deal of her bed wetting, long article without any pictures… haha, but we're all so excited, so relieved!