I was so scared you'd feel pressured or something and end up with a weird complex about pooping.
Right around your 2nd birthday I got you a potty and a potty seat. You loved your potty, but you would correct me when I referred to it that way. "Chair," you would clarify, as you sat down on it fully clothed to play or watch cartoons. I didn't stress about it, though, figuring that as long as you were interacting with it and getting accustomed to it that it was a good thing.
Sometimes you would agree to sit on it without a diaper for me, but you were visibly uncomfortable. "Off," you would demand at first, and then in later months, "Sophia get up?"
You loved the little underpants I got you, but preferred to adorn your head and arms with them. When I persuaded you to try them on without your diaper, you paused thoughtfully, frowned, and demanded, "Off."
Your interest in the whole affair ebbed and flowed. Two evenings ago (11/19/14, to be exact!) I was helping you put on moisturizer and pajamas after you bath. We sat on my bed and suddenly you looked at me and said, "Poop in the bed." I asked you if you wanted to poop in the potty and--to my surprise--you said you did. So we promptly got out the potty seat and you sat for about 30 seconds and all of a sudden you were peeing.
I was so excited, I almost lost my balance where I was perching on the edge of the bathtub. I tried to keep my glee in check so that I didn't scare you midstream and ruin everything forever. I explained how to use the toilet paper and let you flush the toilet. (You loved that part.) Then I allowed myself to hug you and cry joyfully, "Sophie! You peed in the potty!" You grinned. I called down the stairs to your father: "Sophie peed in the potty!"
After you were dressed I made a big deal of giving you the My Little Pony charm necklace I had been saving for this very occasion since July. We called your mamaw and shared the news with her. Your exact words to her over the phone were: "Sophia necklace peed in da potty!"
This morning your teacher emailed to tell me you peed in the potty at school, too.
I didn't expect you to be 2 years and 8 months old before we made so much progress, but I will take it and I will not complain. I'm not in a hurry for you to get any bigger. Once you're potty-trained, you can just stay this age for quite awhile.
