This is the face ~

This is the face of my 1am, 3am and 6am wake up call. Don't let it fool you. It is not a cute face at 1,3 and 6am. Not a cute face indeed.

First of all the hair is usually a nest placed messily on top of his head. This eyes are usually squinted more AND....his mouth is curled up in a scowl. His forehead still has the same concerned look, only perhaps a little more "pronounced".

But, just as the picture to the right indicates, he still looks at me with a sense of "what the heck? you owe me something".

A look I've grown accustomed to as it is Lukes signature look.

We were very happy with both our boys in the potty training department. Justin was "easy peasy lemon squeezy" *this is Justins favorite saying*. When he was 2.5 yrs old we put underwear on him and said "don't pee on bob the builder". And he didn't. Done.

The only issue with Justin was that he would NOT wake up at night to go so we always had to have a pull up on him.

We expected to have difficulties with Luke. We felt that we were spoiled with Justin and since Luke is an all around more difficult child....well, we just figured we were in for some trouble.

Put underwear on Luke and said "don't pee on bob".

Lets be honest here. Luke is Luke. He didn't give a rats a$$ about Bob or if Bob got peed on. We didn't expect any success with this method. What we didn't expect was Luke to be the kind of child who holds his pee. That kid would not go for hours! No matter how much we pleaded with him.

We use to hear him wail at night time. He'd let out a quick sharp scream and after two minutes, go back to sleep. We stopped attending to him at night because it just seemed to be a bigger disruption. Looking back, I think Luke had to pee. He would wake up and scream, no one would come, and he'd pee, then go back to sleep. We're talking at the age of 1,2 and on.

Luke is dry every morning but it comes at a price. The price is MY SLEEP. I'm hoping the novelty of peeing in the night will wear off. I've limited drinks a lot and the boy will still get up three times in the night at least to go pee. Unbelievably .... he has a lot in there. Even if he has the urge to pass gas he will demand to get up and go just to relieve the gas on the toilet. Like, HONESTLY!!!!!

It wouldn't be so bad if he'd just get up and go but NOOOO, he has to scream at us to help him. And THIS... THIS is the face that greets me at 1,3 and 6am. Only its usually accompanied with a "MOMMA! Need to PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE".

I can't wait until he's a teenager and can do these things without waking me up.

There will come a time, right?

If you have any suggestions on limiting the bathroom runs, please....let me know.

I'm absolutely exhausted.

Michelle