Saturday 23rd June 2207, will go down in Smith family history as the last day of changing nappies. The next day Jessica started wearing “big girl” pants, and hasn’t looked back. She has been showing signs of being ready for ages, was fine using the potty, but put some pants on her and she wet them. I tried the pull-up pant method, but these just seemed to confuse her. So we bit the bullet, and Sunday went nappy-free.
Since then she has had a few soggy mistakes, but nothing too bad at all. No more nappy changing is great, but like any new stage there is a down side. Every ten minutes she needs a wee. Every time she goes for a wee, she takes off shoes, socks, pants, trousers, and any other piece of clothing she can manage. It is then a battle to get them on her again. Also we now have to plan trips around her needing a wee, and I am thinking of keeping a potty in the car; this wasn’t such a problem with Ben as men and boys have it easy when it comes to emergency roadside stops. But little girls can’t do it standing up.
As soon as we can conquer the “getting dressed” afterwards, then Jessica will be well and truly on her way. And with Ben dry at night times now, our nappy shopping bill has gone way down, not to mention the amount of black bags for the dustbin men. So everyone’s a winner.