Three mommies.

This "Daily Photo" post at dooce, about having to trick Leta into wearing the dresses that aren't pink, reminded me of MJ's latest fashion nightmare.

She is mostly toilet-independent but often wets at night, so I have her wearing pull-ups (named "step-steps" around here 'cause that's how you get them on).  Huggies Brand Pull-ups For Girls:  Because it would be child abuse for your kid to wear diapers without Disney characters on them.  I hate the characters, but the Huggies perform well, and we have not had much luck with cloth training pants for bedtime.

So the girly ones that we bought last month in bulk have two designs on them.  Half of them sport a picture of Cinderella with bird on finger, and the other half display the Cinderella-Jasmine-Ariel triad.  

Bedtime at our house now sounds like this:

"NO!  NOT a one mommy step-step!  THREE MOMMIES!  THREE MOMMIES!"

When all the three-mommy step steps have been used up, and we can prove that there are no more to be found, then Mary Jane will sometimes, maybe, accept the one-mommy step steps.  

Perhaps, in the end, this is how she will get out of nighttime diapering:  we will run out of three-mommies and, tired of seeing Cinderella in the mirror, she will refuse to wear any and agree to get up and go to the toilet instead.  "If you don't go pee RIGHT NOW, it's the one-mommy for you!"

Why they couldn't just average it out and put two mommies on each diaper is beyond me.

I see from perusing the product website that the newest version of the Huggies Learning Designs for Girls have four different pictures on them.  Unfortunately, in the new packages, 75% of the diapers have one mommy (Cinderella in three different poses) and 25% have three mommies.

Perhaps it's time to introduce her to Lightning McQueen.

Comments

[Cathie B]

Ambrose decided to potty train in November. I refuse to use pull-up because they enabled my older two to delay going to the bathroom in the morning...long story. Won't bother you with it.

What I did find worked for us was Gerber training pants. You can get them at Target. They come in blue or pink designs. They are washable and they either have plastic or vinyl on the outside and cotton on the inside. We've had NO leaks since November. Spencer also sells some that have nylon that don't make a crinkly noise like the plastic ones, but I can't find them locally. I like the Spencer ones because they are just "white". I have a whole stock of "blue" that the new baby girl will have to wear. It won't kill her.

Oh, and I will purposely save the Spencer ones and vinyl Gerber ones for bed because they make less "noise" (we co-sleep). The plastic ones go on when we're going out and he's too distracted to tell me he needs to go.

[Barbara C.]

I can so relate to this entire post. Your daughter must be in the late two/early three range, that period where they have a preference about EVERYTHING from the design on their diaper/pull-up to the color of their straw (and whether you can put the straw in or they have to do it themselves)!

I'm just glad that we have totally stopped using diapers so I don't have to pick out all of the Magentas first, followed by Green Puppy, then Blue, and then Periwinkle.