Dee peed on her potty today for the first time! Any mama would be proud of this accomplishment in their 2+ year old. And I am, very. The weird part is we didn't teach her to do this. Not directly anyway. We bought her a potty but all she's done for the last 2 months since we got it is
A. Use it as a toybox for her Legos
B. Pour her milk into it. or
C. Sit on it (Naked or clothed), hold the handles and waddle around the house holding it to her butt.

Sure we've talked about mama going potty, and daddy going potty and diapers and such and I've noticed she's becoming more aware of when she has to go but we haven't made a big deal about it or anything.

So colour me surprised when, after her bath this evening she said she wanted her potty. We went and found it in the living room where she proceeded to enact the scenario in C (above) and bring it into my bedroom where I sat on the bed and asked her if she needed to potty. She nodded her head in the affirmative then sat there for awhile. After a minute or so she grunted a little then said "more potty?" I said "sure, you can potty more", thinking this was one of our "pretend" games. Imagine my surprise when she indicated she was done then went to waddle off with the potty and I heard SPLASHING! She really went! It was so exciting! She then shoved her hand in the bucket and yelled "water!". I had to explain that we don't put our hands in our pee, we flush it down the toilet. I felt amazed. excited, proud and profoundly mommy when blurting out "papa! Look, she peed!" as we trotted off to the toilet to flush. Dee and I went through how to dump the bucket and wipe and flush and all that. Imagine the pride pouring from my heart as the pee hit the toilet and splashed me in the face. I smiled, nothing was going to take my joy man, nothing. My daughter just taught herself how to pee!