The "Not-Me" Potty Training Edition

Yes, we had the out-of-nowhere, random perfect potty day. But lest you think I've had it too easy, I thought I'd let you know that although we have definitely made progress, we haven't had another perfect potty day, by any means. If we ever get completely diaper free, I'll let you know what worked for us. But until then, here is the "Not-Me Potty Edition!" (And I apologize for any run-on sentences you might not know how to read because I get too excited while typing and forget good grammar :)

My 2-year old did NOT decide the second potty day that it would be better to just avoid the trouble of going potty by refusing to go anywhere at all -- she does NOT have the most amazing control in the world. She did NOT totally freak me out by not going at all from 7pm in the evening until 10:45am the next day. That's almost 14 stinkin' hours!!!!!

I did NOT call my Mother in a panic, wondering if something was wrong with my child. She did NOT alleviate my fears somewhat by telling me that when I was Karis' age and at daycare, I didn't like the potty or for anyone else to change my diaper so I would hold it from 8-3 every day til I got home. Karis and I are NOT both incredibly stubborn -- not us!

I did NOT try to break her stubborn streak by giving her a sippy cup of grape juice right before lunch and she did NOT reward my efforts by losing her stubbornness all over my floor right after we had spent 10 minutes trying to go potty!

I did NOT wonder briefly if her stubbornness had at all to do with the fact that I once (in my hastiness to get her on the potty before she doused us both) forgot to put her little potty seat down and sat her straight through our big potty seat and her little bum got wet. I was NOT utterly horrified at my mistake and her wet bum, yet laughed hysterically because it had been such an unbelievable day. Luckily, Karis thought it was hysterical, too, and laughed right along with me!

I did NOT frantically call my husband twice on his way home from work (he only works 20 minutes away during rush hour :) to find out where in tarnation he was because I was about to lose it. If I had done such an annoying thing, it wouldn't have been because I had a huge, wet mess to clean up and a toddler who kept trying to run dripping (not with water) out of the bathroom every time I tried to go in the living room to console (and make sure she wasn't getting into trouble) my screaming, hungry, ready for bed, crawling everywhere and eating everything 7-month old.

And the second time I called him wouldn't have been because my toddler had hysterically refused to poop in the potty even though we both knew it was time so she had it all over herself and everything around her and when I tried to check on my naked, screaming, hungry, ready for bed, crawling everywhere and eating everything 7-month old, I found that she had gotten to the yucky wet wipe I had just used to wipe her bum and hastily thrown across the room as I ran after my pooping toddler and my sweet precious baby was eating it! As I wanted to cry about that, my very stinky toddler did NOT try to run out of the bathroom to see where I went and in the process make everything in her path very yucky. So I just gave up and very un-nicely called my hubby for the 2nd time and talked so fast he couldn't even understand me and he thought the house was burning or something!

But my Knight In Shining Armour wasn't immune from the non-perfect potty day, either. He did NOT think it would be a wonderful idea to give me a break and take Karis outside. Karis did NOT thoroughly thank him by christening the inside of his car when he went to get something out of it and she decided it would be so fun to climb around in it :) Who wants to take the time to go inside to go potty when she could be having a blast exploring a car?

I did NOT think back to the perfect potty day in nostalgia and suddenly remember that it happened while Karis was in her cloth diapers -- maybe she just didn't want to get her diaper wet!!! So I did NOT try to convince my stubborn 2-year old to go back to diapers after a whole day of championing the merits of her new Hello Kitty underware. She did NOT immediately remind me that she was a stubborn 2-year old and madly in love with said underware. I did NOT give up and let my stubborn 2-year old win that battle. I can't blame for her choosing Pretty Hello Kitty over plain cloth diapers :)

Ahh, but dear, wonderful Nina did NOT utterly rescue me from my overwhelming task by coming to visit this weekend. And if she did, Karis would NOT have decided that Nina was the perfect potty buddy and refuse to let anyone (me) else take her to the potty. I was NOT overjoyed at this new arrangement. And Karis did NOT surprise me by pretty much going without accidents the whole time Nina was here! Not completely dry, but no accidents! Yay Nina! Mama is NOT incredibly hopeful that today is going to be a much drier day!

That's all the potty talk you are going to hear today. But I'd sure love to hear some of the things that you have NOT done this past week! Feel free to leave me a comment to make me laugh or a link to your blog if you choose to join me :) This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.