{"id":85,"date":"2005-10-14T09:09:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-10-14\/85"},"modified":"2005-10-14T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T00:09:04","slug":"the-day-had-started-off-so-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-10-14\/85","title":{"rendered":"The day had started off so well&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>\n\nThis morning started well.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI woke up this morning, as I do most mornings, to find that Anthony had\nbeen up and playing for quite some time. <span class='nobr'>His first<\/span> words to me were\n&#8220;<b>Daddy, <span class='nobr'>I have poopy<\/span>.<\/b>&#8221;\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nThis was a good thing. <span class='nobr'>He almost<\/span> always has <span class='nobr'>a poopy<\/span> by the time Fumie or <span class='nobr'>I\nwake<\/span> up, but normally tries to hide it (hah, as if we have no noses), and\nnormally fights <span class='nobr'>a diaper<\/span> change. So, it was wonderful this morning that he\nannounced it, and went easily to get cleaned up and into underwear for the\nday.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nThen the morning got a bit worse....\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nAs I'm changing the diaper, he tells me &#8220;<b><span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> pee-pee on\nfloor<\/b>&#8221; &nbsp;&nbsp; Groan &nbsp;<b>)-:<\/b>\n\n<\/p><p> The diaper and its contents are quite, uh, liquidly, so it probably\noverflowed and leaked last time he made <span class='nobr'>a pee<\/span>-pee. Ugh. <span class='nobr'>At least<\/span> cleanup\nshouldn't take more than <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> paper towels, since we mostly have hardwood\nfloors.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nAs part of potty training, we've been trying to get him to tell us when he\nneeds to use the bathroom. Normally it's fine, but so far he still goes it\nalone in the morning, so <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> putting on <span class='nobr'>a sad<\/span> face that he didn't wake us\nup to make the poopy or pee-pee.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nThen, things went from bad to worse....\n<\/p><p>\n\n\nObviously trying to make me feel better, he cheerily said in Japanese:\n&#8220;<b>But hey, I <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2005-09-16\/73\">vacuumed<\/a> the\npee-pee<\/b>&#8221;\n\n<\/p><p style=\"padding-top: 1cm\">\n\nSigh. <span class='nobr'>I can't<\/span> blame him, though, since he'd never been told not to use the\nvacuum on liquid. <span class='nobr'>I spent<\/span> the morning cleaning the pee-pee from the floor,\nand from the inside of the vacuum.\n\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This morning started well. <\/p><p> I woke up this morning, as I do most mornings, to find that Anthony had been up and playing for quite some time. His first words to me were \"<b>Daddy, I have poopy.<\/b>\" <\/p><p> This was a good thing. He almost always has a poopy by the time Fumie or I wake up, but normally tries to hide it (hah, as if we have no noses), and normally fights a diaper change. So, it was wonderful this morning that he announced it, and went easily to get cleaned up and into underwear for the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}