Cut 'em off her!

Mrs. H and I have different approaches to potty training.  Her method is far more direct than mine.  She proposes putting on underwear with no diaper and hoping that will teach her not to wet herself.  The phrase, "I wish we could just dress her in saran wrap," was part of this conversation.  I prefer the wait and see method, partly because the mess that results from the direct method becomes my problem after Mrs. H leaves the house to go earn more diaper money in the morning, and I don't like the idea of dealing with underwear-strained poop.

On one particular day recently, Mrs. H decided to try for a compromise, underwear underneath Baby H's diapers, thinking that it would help her realize she was wet.  Unfortunately for everyone, Baby H didn't really care if she was wet or not, or more importantly, poopy.  When it came time for a diaper change, we were in for a tough decision - what do you do with a diaper under underwear?

While I was considering the nastiness that would ensue (and the many ways that this was Mrs. H's fault), Mrs. H suddenly exclaimed, "Cut 'em off her!" and raced to the kitchen to get some scissors so that she could cut off the underwear and diaper.  The thought passed through my mind that it was likely that those scissors would also be going through my pizza in the next day or so, but the deed was soon done.

We're still in disagreement about the best approach to potty training, but it's certainly not been without adventure!