This week Elinor learned to use the toilet! Warning, I will be using potty language. It wasn't as hard as I expected. I was worried that I missed the right timing to do this. She seemed very interested in the potty a couple of months ago. That is when we started working on learning potty terminology. =) I'm glad I did that because she calls both pee and poo the same, poo-poo! Can't wait until she has to go in the middle of church.
So we started off Monday morning in with a fit. How dare mommy not put a diaper on that little bum. I finally got the training pants on her and calmed her down, after about 10 minutes. I was going to do the whole run around butt naked thing, but little Miss E. had a different idea. So I just went with the flow. We set the timer for 15 minutes and then I sat her on her little potty chair. This was not her idea of fun. I had to give her a sticker to put on a piece of paper, just for sitting on the potty. She loved the stars!
I almost gave up. A few accidents and wet training pants were nothing. I just didn't like the rush to get her to the potty, and keeping the twins out of the puddle. I'm really glad she had the panties on, just a little less to clean up. M&M's are my friend. Anytime she did anything in the potty she would get 2 for pee and 4 for poop. We also did the pee-pee dance. She really likes to dance and turn in circles. By Wednesday, she was going to the bathroom whenever she needed. We only had two underwear changes! Thursday and Friday were awesome! I'm so glad I did this. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. She has really caught onto the concept. Now to teach her that she isn't going to fall into the big toilet when she sits on it.
