THE POTTY PAGES vol. I

So about a week ago I bought Adlay a her-size potty. She has shown an interest in “the ways of the bathroom” (not unlike the ways of the Jedi but that is another post for another time) and she turns 18 months old tomorrow *pauses to ShamWow the tears off her laptop keyboard* so I thought why not.

I have read the books, talked to people who have been there done that, and thought myself ready for the journey into Potty Land. For your Mapquest ponderences, Potty Land is just to the East of Sleeping Through the Nightville and a stone’s throw from Eating with Utensils Plains.

We began by decorating the potty, just like the books said people, something about ownership and making it special (read bizarre and mildly uncomfortable for me). So we, and by we I mean I, put stickers on it, painted her name on the top and let her hinder help me put it together and place it in her bathroom. We placed her favorite monkey, Bananas, on the potty to demonstrate how he “used” the potty. All the things the Potty Yodas told me to do.

So now we go sit on the elaborately decorated potty 20 minutes after breakfast, lunch and dinner every day with her clothes on, so she can get used to sitting. She doesn’t sit for more than a minute but still she sits. So according to the PYs (Potty Yodas) the next step is to sit on the potty sans lower half clothes. So we shall see what happens next.

Stay tuned for another riveting installment of the Potty Pages.

Oh and PS any and all advice is welcome. Potty Yodas can come from anywhere.