KDUNK

For about three weeks now we’ve hinted around at the big elephant in the room – Lilian’s mini white potty. I felt the best approach for her personality was to casually introduce the item into our life without showing much interest leaving her to explore. Lilian is extremely stubborn and if there is any hint of someone forcing something she totally and quickly rebels. This should make for some fun teen years.

I should admit I know nothing about potty training. I read a bit about what signs to look out for as to when to begin but we’ve been just more or less going with the flow. Pardon the pun. Our pediatrician believes you should let kids crap and pee around the house without a diaper until they don’t like the feeling and turn to potty training. I’m going to go ahead and say no thanks on that one. I’m happy if that works for others but not at this camp.

Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of pee and potty talk thrown about the house. Random and somewhat hilarious enthusiastic announcements between E and I such as ‘I am going to go PEE PEE on the POTTY now’ with Lilian looking at us like um…stop being such freaks and/or you are so totally lame. Every time we are in the bathroom I ask her if she wants to go (fully clothed – just trying to get used to the idea) and she says ‘NO!’ but once I physically place her on there she loves it and refuses to get off. There is lots of pointing ‘this is Mama’s big potty’ and ‘this is your potty’. I also have been having her throw her dirty diaper in there before tub time or flushing the big toilet saying bye bye to pee pee which if you didn’t know already is TOTALLY HILARIOUS. Fifty five people reading this are sure to send me emails telling me I’ve done about fifty five things wrong with this entire process but it seems to work for us. Why?

BECAUSE SHE TOTALLY PEED ON HER OWN TONIGHT! IN THE POTTY! I can’t believe my blog posts have come to this but folks? They have.

Eliot is off on his mancation hiking and camping in the woods in Utah. I’m pretty sure he won’t be doing much pee pee in the potty there but when he returns I will be sure to tell him all about it. In detail.