There’s A Bathroom On The Right (Bad Moon On The Rise)

How do you potty train a two year-old? I tried starting training PK when she was 22 months but it didn’t take and after a subsequent kidney infection that required hospitalization with catheters she wasn’t interested in being a big girl until she was three. Spy Baby is a different story. And of course she’s a story.

For months now SB has been hiding before she does fills up her diaper. Not when she’s just wet, but when she doing her doodie if you know what I mean. She’ll crawl behind a chair, sit in her little turtle tent or sneak into a closet for a little privacy. Then when she comes back out she announces “Ewww” and gets a new diaper. She actually has become so ingrained in this pattern that whenever she had to go over at boy’s she would go into his closet, sit on a box in the corner and close the door.

Well, I figured that since she obviously knows when it’s time to go that it was time for the training potty to come out. SB loves the potty. She loves the training potty, she loves the big toilet and she even adores the toilet paper. She just never goes. She sits then stand then sits again. She plays with her toes. She rips little pieces of toilet paper up and drops them into the water. Then she says “All done” and runs off with her pants around her ankles. But there’s nothing to show for it.

Until today. Today she got undressed at bathtime and sat on her potty. She sat for about 30 seconds then decided she was finished and ran out of the bathroom. By the time I caught her she was halfway down the stairs and adamant that she had to get her cuppie. Being the pushover that I am I let her continue down the stairs.

She found her cuppie and her pencils and started playing so nicely that I thought I could just get dinner started really fast before getting her back upstairs into her bath. I didn’t notice when she went into the bathroom. When I walked back into the living room I saw that an instant messenger window was flashing on my laptop to I sat on the couch to quickly check it when she walked back out of the bathroom. She looked at me and announced “Ewww”.

I was confused and asked what she was talking about and she pointed into the bathroom and said “Ewww”. I went to investigate and much to my surprise I found that my little Spy had gone into the bathroom to drop a load. I was terribly impressed and proud that she’d done it all by herself with no prompting from mommy. I just hope next time she uses the potty instead of the floor.