Day 17 - Willy

• Question: Who is clean then goes through a cleaning process and afterwards is dirty? Answer: Me after taking a bath with Matthias :) The simple reason is that he still doesn't really have control over the fluids (and other stuff) leaving his body. That's also why we will postpone potty training to summer when it's warm enough to run around naked in the garden. I've recently asked him whether he knows when he needs to pee. He said "yes, when my pants are wet".
• Matthias discovered his willy and plays around with it (and unfortunately squeezes the ones of people who happen to occupy the same bathtub with him). He also asks questions about it. For example he was most interested in my wife's one :)
  Matthias: "What's this?" Heidrun: "Your willy." M: "It hurts." H: "Then don't pull it!" M: "Where's yours?" H: "I don't have one" M: "Where's yours?" H: "Nowhere, I don't have one." M: "Is it in your trousers?" H: "No" M: "Is it in the front?" H: "No" M: "Where's yours?" H: "Nowhere!" M: "On the bottom?" H: "No, I DON'T HAVE ONE, but I have breasts, which you don't have". M: "I have a stomach"
• Even five years olds are not very good at judging their bladder yet. Florian is rocking back and forth while playing Lego. I ask him if he needs to go to the toilet. "No, I'm just fidgety, there's no reason". Five minutes later: "I need the toilet, it's super urgent!!". Which brings us back to the universal truth: "I've told you so".
  
• When you take care of kids you improve at multitasking. Today I had to cook dinner, fill the bath tub, change nappies and answer the door at the same time!
• Another task finished: Florian learned how to wipe his - you know what - after going to the toilet to - well, you know what.
• Lunch at my in laws place: lots of different kinds of Schnitzel. Dinner: "Schinkenfleckerl" (Austrian noodles with smoked ham and cheese), fried lady fingers.