2 posts tagged potty training

My wife and I have been passively trying to get our daughter potty trained for months.  The original goal was to get it taken care of before our son arrived…who is now nearly three months old.  She was good at first, then stopped.  Then we got serious about making her try, then we started having to clean crap and stopped.  There have been promises of movies, pet goldfish, jelly beans….pretty much anything not to experience that act of sliding a loaded pair of underwear off a three year old who WILL NOT STOP MOVING.

Over the weekend, we appeared to hit a breakthrough.  I could tell she was ready to burst and was trying everything in my power to get her into the bathroom.  Finally, I uttered the sentence, “If you go take a poo on the potty, I’ll take a picture of it.”  So yeah, I now have an iPhoto event titled “Loren’s Toilet Diary” filled with her greatest (s)hits.  I think it could be the next great Tumblr site.

But seriously, kid has pooped on the pot all weekend.  She actually woke up from nap, went to the bathroom, and deuced all on her own yesterday.  When I walked in to assess the situation, she called it her “biggest eel ever.”

As I relaxed at the end of this Labor Day and played some Xbox, I was disturbed by my wife yelling and knocking for me to come upstairs during my daughter’s bath time.  As I round the corner, I see the wife sitting on the tub and the kid sitting on her toilet insert.  Nothing like walking upstairs to find a 16 month old dropping a deuce.  We all shared a happy clap together, but the real celebration will come when I can start saving hundreds of dollars a year in diaper money.  I’m already regretting not taking a picture to share on Facebook.