Thursday, November 10, 2011

Potty Awareness

Lately I've been working really hard on "Potty Awareness" with Lydia.  It's not potty training, per se, which I'm not convinced she's ready for, but I am constantly pointing out anything and everything related to going potty.  I am hoping this will make it so that she understands that the potty is not something to be afraid of, and something that is very normal for everyone to do.  I will put her on the potty sometimes (we have a fabulous toddler-sized toilet seat built in to the adult one) and she will sit there very happily and read books.  She has actually gone pee pee in the potty a couple of times on accident, but it wasn't very recent so it doesn't count for much.  I can tell she's starting to get the concept of the potty, though.  Whenever anyone around here has ... ahem ... gas (which is ... uh ...extremely rare) she proudly announces "poopy!" as soon as she hears the "wind".  Last week she was standing up in the bathtub and she points to herself and says "pee pee" and I look in time to see that she is peeing in the bathwater.  Then tonight after her bath, she was standing in our bedroom and I was doing something really quick before getting her dressed.  She shouts, "Poopy! Potty!" and I look at her really hard for a second trying to decide if she is wanting to sit on the potty or whether she was just saying words that she knows.  I had just decided it was probably a false alarm when she started peeing on my floor.  Lovely.  I scooped her up and put her on the potty, but she was already done.  I wiped the pee off her leg, tossed the tp in the toilet and she flushed the potty, waving "buh-bye!"   On the other hand ... maybe she is ready for a more serious attempt at potty training ...

1 comment:

Austin Stevenson Owens said...

OOOOOooooooooooooohhhhh! She is advanced!! What a cutie!

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