Every once in a while I ask Sis if she wants to try the big girl potty. It usually turns into more trouble than it’s worth, but Sissy came and informed me that she had “Poo Poo”, so I decided to give it a go. (Remember, I am all about letting my kids wait until they can train themselves.)
So I put her on the potty, and the story goes like this:
Here’s Sis all ready to go.
Four minutes and a lot of cheering later, I gave it a failing grade.
She was completely capable of pushing, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t all coming together.
As I was going to take her off, Scout wanted me to leave her on.
I told him he could try and teach her and left the room.
(Let’s be honest, I knew it was just going to turn into another toilet papering party.)
About a minute later, Scout ran to me and said she was pushing, but nothing was coming out.
I gave him a sippy cup to try and relax her.
He took it in — and not 30 seconds later he came running and screaming, “She went Poopsie Doops on the big girl potty!”
I came running and screaming.
We were all SO excited — and so was she.
This little girl showed it off to everyone!
And she kept looking and just staring at it so proudly.
Scout was a pro on teaching her, and he loves that he gets all of the credit!
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After all of the accolades and excitement died down, she decided she didn’t want it to end.
She wanted me to put her on the big girl potty again.
I liked the idea for photo purposes…so on she went.
This is when she lost her balance, fell into the toilet, and smashed her poopsie doops with her booty all in a split second.
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I guess the beauty of having a potty trained child backfires when the clean up is worse than any diaper I’ve seen in a long time.
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