Well, we've been working hard all weekend on encouraging proper potty practice and things are moving along fine. Granted, she isn't reliable at using the potty, but defintely seems to be identifying when she needs to (or at least when she did) pee or poop. The only real setback at this point is that Rhianna has a little attitude on her and in the time it takes for her to do her grumpy face and then give in to heading towards the potty, we've missed the window and she's already started to pee. Ah well, it will come in time I'm sure.
After being housebound for two days, Dave and I decided we should go to Applebee's for dinner last night -- mostly to get out of the house although Dave was very enthusiastic about the apple-something-or-other for dessert once we got there. Anyway, about two bites into our meal Rhianna announces "POOP!" So, encouraged by her enthusiasm, I rushed her to the bathroom. It turns out that she'd peed in her diaper and the pronounced "POOP!" translated into parent-speak for "I already went you fool! Haha, you missed it." But the experience shed light on a new potty plight.
This one is called: Baby Butts and the Gap.
Long story short, public pots have a gap in the front of the toilet seat. My guess that the purpose of this gap is to give men an extra inch or so of dribble space since (apparently) aiming those last few drops is difficult. All in all, I'm sure the Gap saves countless potty-goers from sitting directly on top of some previous user's leftovers. The engineering, it would seem, was good foresight. But there is a little problem. That little problem is Rhianna's little butt -- which is about the same size as the Gap, When taking a mini-person to a public pot, this five-inch Gap suddenly became a mile-high hurdle. My first instinct was to put her on sideways. There were two problems with this plan. First, she had no idea what the heck was going on. The toilet is foriegn enough, but now she's expected to go sideways. Hm. That one she might be able to get used to over time. Second setback to sideways sitting? In order for her to go on the big-potty she has to hold herself up so she doesn't fall in (FYI, she did fall in once at home and didn't think it was fun at all -- we, as supportive parents, tried really, REALLY hard not to laugh). Ok, back to sideways sitting. Are you picturing this? A sideways-sitting one-year-old with hands looking for something to hold onto on either side. One hand on the back of the toilet, no problem. The other hand -- seeing the problem yet? -- RIGHT IN THE LEFTOVERS. Yuk. Really. YUCK! So I'm putting it out to you Internet, Baby Butts and the Gap, any ideas??
2 comments:
Get a cone that normally goes around a dog's neck after a medical procedure, fix it around her waist, hold her above the public pot and let it fly.
I, as a not-as-supportive-or-apparently-mature adult, found great humor in these stories and would not have been able to hold my laughter as my toddler fell into the toilet... For that I highly commend you! As for the trials/tribs of potty training a mini-person, I as well commend your efforts and recommend more blogging on the subject - if nothing else, just to give me a laugh:)
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