Toilet Training

We have officially started to toilet train Julia (we'll forego any pictures today). We figured what better way to celebrate the long weekend than to clean up pee and poop off the floor. It really has gone very well. Julia had a few accidents yesterday including her bed during nap time but she is really trying her best. She has been telling us before peeing that she has to go and when we routinely put her on the toilet she goes. So overall she is doing well.
Today was better. She only had ONE peeing accident (in her sandbox...maybe she was pretending to be Auntie Weezie's cat) and ONE pooping accident (outside as well...whew!). I really didn't mind her pooping accident because she has been holding it for 2 days, afraid to go in the toilet. I guess that is a good sign because she obviously has control. It wasn't so bad to clean because it was like a big baseball sized ball of brown playdough in her pants. I didn't realize that a two year old is capable of plugging a toilet but apparently it's possible.
One more practice day at home before we take this show on the road.

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