Last week, Noni potty trained herself. Just like that. I had put a potty in her room, next to her crib, a couple of weeks before, thinking that maybe at some point she'd take an interest in sitting on it and then we could go from there. I wasn't going to push it anytime soon. The memories of potty training with her sisters were still too fresh - we covered the entire bathroom wall with sticker charts for Evie and spent over a year offering pretty much any kind of bribe you can think of to Lucy. I won't even go into all of the cleaning and detergents we went through during that time, but you can understand if I wasn't enthused at the idea of jumping into it again. But in the typical Noni fashion, she just walked over to the potty one day and went. This resulted in Evie and Lucy covering her in hugs and high-fives while I walked around in shock for the day thinking, did that just happen? Just like that? Noni seemed confused as to why we were all making such a fuss. To her, going on the potty was like jumping in the pool and trying to swim "no help! no help!" or walking up onto the stage at Evie's drama camp and giving a heartfelt rendition of Annie's "Tomorrow". She just assumes that if her sisters can do it, she should be able to as well. It's more surprising to her if she can't.We've had a couple of accidents, but only a few days into it and she's already about 90% of the way there. After breathing a huge sigh of relief, it suddenly occurred to me that this wasn't perhaps the best timing. We're going back east for two weeks in August and attempting public restrooms in the airport or trying to teach her to balance on a real toilet just isn't happening.
What to do? Introducing Fisher Price's "Potty-on-the-Go", which arrived in the mail today from amazon.com. On our trip, Noni will have her very own little tote bag, complete with a potty and wipes. To the mom out there who invented this: Thank you! Now if you could only invent a soundproof cage to put around our airplane seats, we'd be good to go.
4 comments:
Go Noni, go!!
I am thrilled for any parent who gets to avoid the trauma we've gone through with potty training. Hooray, Noni! : )meg
What an interesting contraption. That's one good thing about boys-they can pee anywhere. Mo did the same thing as Noni. He just started peeing in the toilet on his own. I think he only had one accident ever. Don't be jealous though. He didn't sleep on his own til he was 3!!!
Now that the trip is over, I'd be curious to know if the potty-on-the-go was a successful purchase.
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