Also? While more laundry intensive than pullups, waterproof matress covers have improved immeasurably since I was a kid (which I remember like sleeping on a trash bag.)

It'll improve. It's probably mostly adjustment. Plus your devil toilet (I'm sorry!)

A block of street (Abermarle?) in Little Italy here in B'more is being renamed Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi . A mouthful, but still. This town is proud of its operators.

we have a waterproof mattress pad, but still that is 5 sets of sheets I'd have to wash a week and I can't do a load on a week day - so no. it is gonna be some combo of wake up and pull-ups.

Walgreens has some handy rubber mattress covers for reasonable prices if you want to hedge your bets and make sure nothing gets wet below the sheets.

I'd forgotten how handy George Foreman grills are—just experimented with some olive oil, Grand Marnier, and the seafood rub Maria gave me last Christmas as a marinade for salmon skewers. I like being able to field a good restaurant quality entree for $3.

Want me to send sheets? (I'm only kinda kidding. It's a challenge I really can't quite envision coping with.)

nope. I have enough sheets. Not the willingness to deal with that as my reality. thanks though.

Pull-ups are your friend, msbelle. Why you wanna get up at 2am to wake him up? He doesn't need to be changed in the pull-up until the morning. They wick the pee away from his skin. You got enough adjustments now without trying to fix bedwetting in a week. It could take months. (Easily.)

Aren't the pullups keeping it off the sheets? Throw a towel down on top of the sheet. Also, no drinking after 7!

Um, when did Emmett turn into Legolas,

He missed a couple haircuts and then grew about two feet taller. He shows no aptitude with archery. Yet.

and why are you forcing your two children to indulge in pipe weed?

Just the baby! And if she'd quit crying we'd wean her off.

When the SO broke his arm falling in the tub some years ago, it was such a bad break that the doctor told him if he hadn't used his arm to break his fall he'd be dead.

We were doing a camp, and we hadn't had water for half the week. We finally trucked some in, and we were trying to conserve it. So I'd hurried my shower and I think I'd left a good bit of shampoo (soft water) in the shower. He slipped getting out of the tub. It was awful. But thank goodness he hadn't hit his head.

Not the willingness to deal with that as my reality. thanks though.

Been there. It'll improve. First thing I've learned as a parent has been that as bad as any one stage is--it eventually ends.

I'm just hoping our current, let's stick things in electrical appliances stage ends before one of us gets electrocuted. I'd volunteer to come over and do msbelle's laundry. But I'd need someone to come over and run the asylum for me.

Ooooh, Coal Miner's Daughter is on WE.

Bobby had bed wetting until he was 5 or 6. Of course he was so big at that age too. Ugh. A cleaning lady I had at the time insisted that I have him put out a little fire outside, yes, that way. She said it was a custom in Ecuador (I totally think she made it up). Anyway, we made a big game of it. He outgrew it about that time. Annabelle said it was the peeing on the fire, his doctor said his parts grew up. It was a lot of work for a while there.