potty time - don't jinx us!

When Daddy was away, Bella tinkled in the potty! It was completely unexpected and such a great surprise! Before her bath, she practices sitting on the potty. It is part of the routine and she loves it. She sat on her potty top (Sesame Street seat that fits on top of an adult toilet), pushed toilet paper between her legs over and over. She doesn't actually wipe, but she knows that the paper goes down. She also toots, a lot. It's cute. She sits (plays) for a while then "makes bubbles" which means she wants to take a bath. Into the bath she went, lots of bubbles, lots of fun. Suddenly she stood and said "potty" with her hand pointed down. I lifted her and sat her on the potty. She tooted and then I heard tinkling!!! There was actual "water" trickling down into the toilet! YAY! I screamed, I high fived her, I encouraged her to flush since there was really pee-pee in the potty. I was so proud!

The next night we came home and she was fascinated with this portable potty. Up, down, moving it all around. It's been around for a while, but she didn't play with it as much as this night. I took advantage and made dinner and actually ate it all while she pottied. When it was "make bubbles" time (bath time) I picked her up and noticed that there was pee pee in the potty! Again! She did it all on her own! Two nights in a row must mean something. We are on our way to being potty trained and spending a whole lot of "diaper" money on something else.

Since then, she has refused to potty at all. When we ask, she consistently and adamantly says "no!" We're bummed, but I think we could get somewhere if we had some M&M's as motivation. Matt is concerned about the sugar in the candy so we agreed to get mini M&M's. We'll see how it goes. Fingers-crossed!