She DID IT!!!!

It seems that FINALLY a certain little girl has made up her mind that it is time to use the potty. It has been a very long and frustrating year with lots of stops and starts along the way - but for the past two weeks Miri has been awesome about staying dry and better yet telling us when she has to go pee pee. However, poop has not been so easy. In fact I was starting to really dread training on the poop end. I figured if it took an off and on year of pee pee training that poop was going to take a while as well. For the past couple of weeks I have been waiting each day for her poop to then let her wear panties - but every now and then she would have the rare twice a day poop and I would be stuck cutting panties off of her in an attempt not to spread poop down her legs or onto what ever surface she was being changed on. I am sure you can imagine the frustration and grossness of all of this. So tonight we were getting some groceries at Wal-Mart and Miri starts crying about her tummy hurting. She hasn't pooped in two days so I told her that maybe going potty will make it feel better. We rush to the potty (I practically mowed down a little old man in my haste) as soon as I got her seated she started trying to poop and she did it - not once but twice then pee peed. I think the whole front of the store heard me cheering - I was really proud of her. It was like something clicked in her head that it was the time to be potty trained. This was how she started walking too - one day (at around 19 months) she just got up and crossed the room and never looked back. I think I have a perfectionist on my hands.

After her big poop we let her pick out a new toy. She had already picked out one for pee pee so she ended up with two new My Little Pony Babies tonight. I ended up buying two new packages of panties for her and NO PULL-UPS!! I am hoping we will have a pull-up free weekend and if she continues on this poop trend maybe just maybe we will be done with diapers!!!!!! Whooo Hooo!!!! I am very excited at that prospect!