Potty Time!

V has been signalling that she might be ready for potty training lately. She's still kind of young for it (15 months) but I figured it doesn't hurt to introduce her to the concept.

It all started just over a month or two ago when she started saying, "puh" and pointing to herself each time she went. It was amazing cause we didn't teach her that word; maybe she heard us referring to it? She rarely uses long vowels either so it makes sense that she'd call it "puh" instead of "pee" or "poo." (ugh I hate using those words but they're easy. .)

Then, she also became very interested in the bathroom in particular. Long gone are the days I can stick her in a bouncy chair and go to the bathroom in peace. .she likes to come in and see what's going on! So she's become familiar with the concept of peeing into a toilet. She even hands me toilet paper. . .this is such TMI, isn't it? It's funny, she'll unravel like a meter of paper, and then rip off a tiny little square, like a centimetre square and pass that to me. She is so hilarious.

She likes playing with toilet paper a lot, as I guess most kids do since there are those toilet paper locks. Even when I'm not in there she'll go in and unravel a bunch, stick it in the toilet and flush, watching it swirl down and away. She seems very amused by this. The other week, during a diaper change, I discovered a bunch of toilet paper she had shoved into her diaper!! That was really funny, and was about when I thought, hmmm maybe it's time to start potty training?

So we got a potty yesterday. The baby bjorn got the best reviews on amazon so we ordered that. I couldn't believe it cost $52 for a plastic potty!!! But so far it seems pretty good. I put her on it yesterday after she woke up from a nap, when she almost always pees a lot, and it worked! My husband and I were so proud we actually took a picture of the pee!

Then today I've been putting her on it here and there but nothing.. till this evening. She sat on it all by herself, my husband quickly took off her diaper, and she went in it all on her own! Then as a "treat" I emptied it into the toilet and let her flush it. Some parents bribe their kids with candy. . I let her flush the toilet :) Hey, she loves it! And it's amazing that she understands what it's for, that she's been able to connect all the dots.

I expect this to take months and months but I figure that's ok since we're starting so early. It's funny how things like this are so exciting once you're a parent.