Two days ago I bought gck-1 her first potty. I went to target and had my choice of about 7 or 8. Pink princess ones with flashing lights and music, prince ones with blue lights and music, one with a pretend handle that makes flushing noises and has a place to hold a roll of toilet paper, the kinds that you just plop on top of the toilet, etc… and then there is the one I bought. It’s made of 50% biodegradable material and it only cost me like $11. And yes, it was the absolute cheapest one there. There’s nothing fancy about it. It’s tan with a sage green lid. It plays no music. It doesn’t light up. It doesn’t give out stickers. That’s fine with me and that’s fine with gck-1.

Over the past several weeks gck-1 has shown interest in the potty. Everyone knows when you have a toddler, you pee with the door open or go insane from the banging and high pitched screams on the other side of a closed door when your toddler finds out where you are. We pee with the door open. It grosses me out, but we do, for now. Anyway, she likes to come around the corner when I’m in there and say “pee-pee” “pee-pee” and gets a big smile on her face. Then we wave good-bye to the pee-pee. She’s also been telling us, after the fact, that she has a poo diaper.

I figured it was right about time to get her her own little potty just to introduce her to it… not to actually start training her.

She had a completely different idea.

When I brought it home she was still napping so I just put it on the ground in the kitchen.

You should have seen her eyes light up when she turned around the corner and saw it sitting there! It was better than the look she had she saw presents for the first time!

“Pee-pee” “pee-pee”.

I sat her on it… and voila! There was in fact, pee-pee!

Now imagine those last couple sentences like 20 times over and over again… because that is exactly what happened for the rest of the day and into the night.

I’m not quite sure what I went to Wal-mart for… oh wait, B wanted some half baked ice cream. Side step for a second… ice cream was all that was on my list and I walked out with said ice cream, pull-ups, 2 new sippy cups, 8 yards of fabric, rubber bands (for exercising), 3 yards of elastic, fabric pens, a dr. pepper, and a smut magainze. I’m horrible at sticking to lists.  Side step back… I was on the phone with B while I was there and he told me that he had to hang up because “pee-pee” was happening.

B hurt his ankle the other day and has to elevate it quite frequently. As he was laying on the couch elevating it, he hears “pee-pee” “pee-pee”. My sweet little gck-1 had pulled down her pants and her pull-up and gone pee-pee all by herself for the first time. (Normally we have to help her with the pants and pull-up.)

She gets a mini marshmallow every time she goes pee-pee. We’ve gone through a quarter of the bag in 2 days. But we’ve hit a break through. This morning, she pee’d 3 times on the potty and only wanted a marshmallow the first time. I can live with a girl who likes praise instead of gifts.

Now I know that number 2 is much more difficult to master but so far, in the last 2 days… she’s grown up into a big girl. And I am blessed to have such a smart angel.

I hope that this isn’t some sort of weird phase and she hates the potty in days to come.

Is it always this easy?

Tags: pee-pee, potty, potty training

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