To Potty Train or Not to Potty Train

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If you get grossed out easily (most likely if you don't have kids) then don't read this...

Sunday our daughter figured out how to get her pants off, then her diaper. Luckily she hasn't been interested in this too much more...I'm just waiting for the day when I'll be cleaning it up off the floor and bathing a poopy toddler.

She is developing a habit of saying "Mommy in the kitchen" when she is going #2 which means "mommy, leave me alone and go far away while I do my business"...which is fine with me. Then I usually hunt her down about 10 minutes later and change the soiled diaper.

Yesterday she pooped then when finished sat down on the floor and was playing when she made the statement..."Boo Boo (her name for herself) sitting on poopy." I just found that funny. Thought I'd share, but there is more.

Today I was upstairs doing my getting ready routine (with a watchful eye to downstairs where she was playing) when I thought after about 5 min I should go check on our little darling. Well, good thing I did. The pull-up had one side pulled apart (they do that at the sides) and she was holding that side looking at her freshly minted poopy. The great thing about it was that it was solid as a rock and that was a God thing because typically that is not her (normally we get a sloppy soupy mess)...I only had to laugh. It was a great opportunity to take her and her little poopy into the bathroom and show her where poopies belong - flushed down the potty!

So now I'm guessing we better get on potty training...mostly because I don't want poopy on the floor (wishful thinking, I'm sure I'm in for it, since kids are always so curious). :-)

No More Baby Girl

It's hard to believe how close Ann Elise is to turning two. I mean, it's still a few months away, but the changes are noticeable...words that she couldn't pronounce are now a piece of cake (like "cahkee" is now "coffee"). Crawling has totally been out of the picture for ages now, it's either walking but many times now it's running. Elmo is all the rage. But being outside at the park with Dada is 100 times better than watching a TV program. She has to swing "up high." I'm sure anyone with a toddler can relate.

This summer we took a break from music class but have done some traveling and had some visitors. We went to Houston in June to see Aunt Dakin and have also had visits with Mimi and Papaw and Cousin Annie from Iowa.

And now I have to go because naptime is over! It's getting shorter all the time....

Cathi