Potty Trained and Eye Doctor

No pictures to accompany this post, but I think I am safe in saying that Emily is officially potty trained. We've been somewhat casually working on this for several months. She has been in undies during the day during waking hours at our house or her sitter's, but not when we're out since a week or 2 after her surgery, so end of April. We had tried in March, but she ended up sick and then we were going to be out of town for spring break, so we put that on hold. A couple of weeks ago we stopped putting a diaper on her for the car ride to/from the sitter's house.

The big change that has prompted me to say that she is trained is that over the last 2 days she has refused to use her diaper. Yesterday, we were out for a bit, so I stuck I diaper on her because I wasn't sure about the availability of a bathroom when she might need one. As we left dinner she said she had to go, but it wasn't easy so we told her about her diaper that was on. Well, we got home and she was still dry (probably 4 hours since she'd last gone). She went right away. Today, she had an eye doctor appointment, so I had her in a diaper so we didn't have to run out of the room mid-exam. We didn't take off the diaper when we got home and she drank a ton of water. After dinner, she started playing and then freaked out that she had to go. Once again, we figured that she had a diaper on and we would probably be too late in getting her to the bathroom, but no. So, she's starting to tell us and definitely holding it for awhile. So, goodbye diapers! Except at nap and bedtime, of course!

We also had Emily's first check up with her eye doctor since right after her surgery. It was both good and bad. The surgery seems to be successful, Emily's eyes are straight and move together. That is very good. Unfortunately, she seems to still be favoring her left eye. We haven't been patching since surgery to let the eyes learn how to work together. So, back to the patch we go. This is a little different than what we did before. This time, she needs time for her eyes to work together. She should be patched for about 4 hours, but no more. So more is not better now. If we skip a day because we're out and busy all day, that is ok, too. He said that without my asking about that. We likely won't skip at all, we were pretty vigilant about patching before, so I'm sure we'll be similar this time. Emily was not happy with the patch. He put one on her at the office because we were trying to really see what the right eye could do by itself. We did get Emily to read a children's eye chart with both eyes and with her left eye, but not with the right. The doctor said that he isn't convinced that she couldn't read it, but she chose not to. She certainly couldn't see it well, though. After we got home, we put another pirate patch on her. She was very, very upset. I think she had a hard time seeing and had to adjust for a bit to it. She went in and out of being ok with it and being upset. We left it on for an hour, until we had dinner and then took it off. Tomorrow, Emily and I will put it back on and hope for the best for 4 hours in the morning. I'm trying to come up with lots of activities for she and I to do for distraction. The early days of adjusting to the patch are one of the few times that I'll resort to the tv as distraction, but I may do that if needed. On Sunday we are going to the Bronx Zoo, so we'll patch her when we first get up and then probably take it off once we get there. It is supposed to be 95 degrees and I can't imagine the patch will be comfortable in that heat. Then on Monday it is back to the normal grind and we'll be in routine again. We go back to the eye doctor on July 15 for another check.