Tonight, Maddie peed in the potty for the first time!
She's been sitting on the potty for longer and longer periods lately. This weekend she hunkered down with a pile of books, but nothing happened. We bought her a Karen Katz flap book about going in the potty, and she's been concentrating on it really hard whenever I read it to her. She definitely got the idea ... but nothing was happening yet.
Tonight after she got out of the tub she went straight for the potty, lifted the lid and sat down. "Book!" she demanded, so I left her there to go to the living room to get a pile of books for her. A few seconds later she came running down the hall, naked and flapping her arms, visibly worked up.
We went back into the bathroom and checked it out. Sure enough, there was some pee-pee in the potty! She was very proud. We hugged her and made a big deal out of it. Then she got to participate in the aftermath routine ... the wiping, dumping, flushing, rinsing.
I guess I'm going to need to read up on potty training -- I didn't think it was going to happen so fast!
Hooray for Maddie! It may be awhile yet before she's fully "there," but man, she's definitely on the right (and fast) track!
P.S. Now I definitely need to send you her b-day gift ASAP! :-)
Posted by: Susan Murphy | August 28, 2008 at 06:57 PM