Potty Time!

I have something important to tell you all - and it concerns the topic of the POTTY!

Miss Emily has had a handful of potty books for some time now that I keep in our downstairs bathroom - she loves these books by the way and reads them on a daily basis. We just want her to start getting used to the idea of the potty and what goes on in the bathroom so we read them a lot and I will take her into the bathroom with me and talk to her about it when we are in there.

So a few weekends ago when my mom and I were at Babies-r-us I decided to pick up a little Potty chair for Miss Emily and a new Elmo Potty book that has sounds since she is in luuuuuv with Elmo.

I did do a bit of research on potty chairs and decided to go with the Bjorn brand that is pretty basic with a bowl that lifts out for easy dumping and cleaning.

I brought the new potty home that evening and though to myself  "Hmmm while I run the bathwater why don't I put Emily on her new Potty and start her getting used to the idea of sitting on it" and I didn't expect any results right away.

So I start the bathwater and Emily sits on the potty while Marc and I talk to her - and low and behold she produces her first gift - a poopy!

Oh Joy! Elation! Marc was impressed by the size, I was just impressed that she did anything! so we clapped and praised her and told her how good she was - I told Marc to watch her while I ran off to get some wipes to wipe her. Well he must have been so impressed he forgot to watch her closely and she just about got a hold of her poopy with her hands! Thank goodness I walked in just then!

Then Marc got grossed out and Mom had to dump the poopy in the toilet and Emily got to flush it away and say "Bye Bye Poopy" while it went down the toilet. And then Mom had to clean the Bowl (Marc was still grossed out! - Men!)

We were so proud of her, that we called Meemaw and told her the news! (She thought I was joking!) then we called JoJo and told her the news too.

So we have had the potty now for a while and Emily loves to sit on it, and read on it and play with it. She also likes to take one of her baby dolls that has a diaper on it and she will take the diaper off and put the baby on the potty - ok it kind of a small baby doll so it fits in the bowl. If you turn the baby upside down she will right it too!

The other night I decided to have her sit on her potty again while we were filling the tub and low and behold she tinkled! More praise and clapping! and me cleaning the potty bowl. "Bye Bye Tinkles" she said as we flushed it down.

Miss Emily is definitly a smart girl and knows what to do with her potty - maybe Potty Training won't be so bad!

We arn't forcing anything and still have a long way to go but it's a start!