It's been a revealing week for me...and it's only Wednesday! First, after being wakened around 1:00 am Tuesday morning to Aidan's screams and cries, I discovered that he has made quite a lot of leaps with his potty training progress. When I got to his room and asked what was wrong, he sniveled, "I have to go potty." Yessss! I'm so excited (lol). Only then did I think back to the last couple of weeks and realized that we really hadn't had any accidents during the day. And he has been dry most of the mornings, too. So maybe there is hope that we actually won't have to buy pull-ups and wet wipes some day!
The other revelation this week is that he has finally learned the habit of picking his nose. Not so much during the day, but during those last few waking moments as he struggles against the R.E.M. stage of sleep.
As I watched him fall asleep for the last two nights, I was filled with wonder at how someone who is half asleep can have such a busy finger probing around in his nasal cavity. What really got me curious last night was when just as his eye lids were getting too heavy and his eyes were just about rolling into the back of his head, his probing finger ejected from his nose and inserted right into his mouth. The last thing he did before succombing to the R.E.M. struggle was to swallow. Eeew. I never would have considered that he was about to do that...never.
But it made me ponder for a few minutes. Is the human habit of nose picking, along with EATING IT, such a primal instinct that a young child can perform the task unconsciously? Or is it just simply a learned behavior from classmates at preschool? Regardless of which it is, it is a very powerful force.
So as I get to wane away from pull-ups and wet wipes, I will now get to focus efforts on etiquette and tissues. May the force be with me.
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