Lately we have been trying to teach Ajax that stairs are not a toy and you shouldn’t play on them. We are trying to retire the baby gate and don’t feel comfortable doing that until Ajax has this lesson mastered. My child is smart and this is not a difficult concept; however, stairs do hold an appeal.
One of his favorite games involving the stairs is to put his Zu Zu on them and then watch as it topples down. Ajax has also learned that he can lay on his stomach across the stairs and thinks this is pretty neat too, so long as he doesn’t lose his balance and fall over. Anyways, it’s still a work in progress and the gate hasn’t been moved to the basement yet.
Another new concept we’re introducing to Ajax is potty training. Ajax will tell you when he has gone to the bathroom and I thought, well, it he can tell us that, we should bring up the potty and at least put it in the bathroom so that he can begin getting used to it. This has had mixed results and we’re certainly not pushing the thing. Generally before bath time we’ll ask Ajax is he has to go potty or if he wants to sit on his potty. Sometimes he says yes, other times he says no. It can go either way depending on his mood. Most times he likes to just shove things in it, for example his silkie, which took us forever to find this morning, but the dream of not having to buy diapers is a powerful inspiration so the mini-potty remains in our bathroom next to the hamper.
