Bunk Bed & Potty Woes

Much to my surprise Tyler was able to build the bunk bed Saturday and now my boys are officially sharing a room. The transition has been both good and bad so far.The good part is night time. They did really good the past 2 nights. They chat for a bit but they don't play and they both go to sleep after not too long. And this morning was nice because instead of bugging me when they woke up, they played together and didn't even want to leave their room to go eat breakfast. I'm sure that's just the novelty of things but it'd be nice if that didn't change.

Nap time, on the other hand, was bad yesterday. Steven hasn't napped in over a week which  has been very depressing for me. Lately he had been decreasing his everyday naps to every other day but now he's stopped completely and when you've gotten used to getting a 2 hour break every afternoon, it's hard to let it go completely.  Yesterday though, Steven insisted that he wanted to take a nap with Ben so we let him. Well, that was a joke. About an hour and a half later, Ben was FINALLY asleep and Steven was still wide awake. It was a whole frustrating fiasco and I think now that they are sharing a room, it's probably time for me to give up completely on Steven napping. I just have to consider myself lucky that he lasted this long.

Getting Ben to poop on the potty has also been a frustrating fiasco. Since he refuses to eat veggies & fruit, he doesn't have daily bowel movements and when he does have to go it's difficult for him. I've been giving him Fiber1 Bars and Fiber pills but I think it's time to bring back the extra punch of prune juice because he will sit down and get up from the potty about 10 different time before he actually goes. 4/5 times he pooped last week have been on the potty which is fantastic but it is such an ordeal for me that I am not sure my pregnancy impatience can take it. If I can hang in there or get his bowel movements to be more regular then maybe I can try to get him to pee in the potty too. It sure would be great if we only had to buy the baby diapers when the she comes in October!

On a cute note, I had put Ben & Steven's names on their door to help them with recognizing their names and the day after the bunk bed was put up, Steven took Ben's name off his door and put it on his.