Oh The Potty

Why yes it is after midnight and everyone in my house (newborn included) is asleep except me. Awesome. I'm telling you that between pregnancy and this new baby I may never sleep on a "normal" schedule again.

In other news, we're potty training. Yipee....NOT. Least fun part about parenting? Potty training! I hate it. No, really I do. It's frustrating and looooooong. Geesh. Why don't the kiddos come out potty trained? I mean they do some pretty incredible things in utero like growing all their bones and organs, the least that they could do was potty train themselves while they are baking in there. Here are a few things I've learned while potty training:

1. Candy is a good motivator. Downside? After a while you start to feel a little bad offering your 2-year-old candy before they've had breakfast, or at least I do. Someone once said something very wise to me, she said, "I was a much better mom before I had kids" Amen to that. I did think ahead as far as going to the potty in public. I didn't bring any candy with us so that she would get used to going to the potty without a reward every time.

2. Once you think they have it down brace yourself because then they will proceed to poop in their panties over and over and over again. The first week of potty training was pie, now I tell you that if I have to clean poop out of one more pair of panties I'm going to cry.

3. You'll never say "Bathroom," or "Restroom," or "Powder Room" again. Instead you'll call it the potty evermore. Don't worry I'm sure it'll become cool one day to say words like "pee pee" and "bye byes" at least I'm hoping because I no longer know how to speak to another adult. Instead we go barreling through the store saying, "Hold on we've got to find a potty to go pee pee!"

4. Picking out panties is not as cool as you think it would be. I don't know about other kids, but Jordyn was not even a little excited about picking out her "big girl panties". In fact she could care less. She was much more sentimental about losing her diapers and wipes than she was about moving up in the world of underwear. Apparently no amount of talking up the potty and big girl undies was going to make up for the hesitation to change.

5. Potty books are ridiculous! Oh my goodness who publishes some of these books? I'm not saying that they are all bad. In fact, I'm sure that there are some good ones. However, the ones we got were weird! And awkward. As if teaching someone how to go to the bathroom isn't awkward enough they have weird books to help you. Not that Jordyn has ever once cared what was inside a book. As long as it's a book it's her favorite book of all times. That kid sure loves to read!