Adventures in White Porcelein

Last night during rehearsal someone asked me "what's new" and my reply was a joyful "Buttons is wearing underwear!" It truly is a big moment although I felt the need to explain a bit as to why this ranks up there with a birthday or anything wonderful. It's an awesome milestone.

We've been buying pull-ups for a long time. I shudder to think how many we've purchased. First there were the generic butterfly ones, then came the princess ones (shudder), then came Spiderman (better), now we have Dora. We purchased books and videos, did crazy marketing schemes and even made it a social event. Santa brought underwear, she picked out underwear, we talked about underwear. Well, Buttons has been wearing underwear since Friday with only one incident, which did require the purchase of a new car seat*. Know what finally worked? We finally stopped using the pull-ups and actually put the underwear on her. You know what's even sillier? A friend nicely pointed this out as an option. Hmm, putting the undies on the daughter. Who woulda thunk it?

*At the end of a long day, we needed to go home, Buttons refused to go to the potty and 5 minutes later had an accident in her car seat. Once home, we removed the seat cover to find that two parts of the styrofoam on her car seat had broken. So, we bought this and this.

Sometimes It Is Brown

We're working on potty training. Last week I went to a book sale at the library. R.E.M. is one of our favorite groups. You may be asking what do these things have in common?

Well, besides the fact that my brain can be very random like that, I'll tell you. I've been wanting to get this book for Buttons to read while she's going to the potty and lo and behold it was on sale for fifty cents at the library. After reading the book, Hubby begins singing "Everyone Poops" to the R.E.M. song "Everybody Hurts". We took "poetic license" and began singing "Everyone poops...sometimes. Sometimes it is brown. Sometimes it is soft. Sometimes..." Well, you get the idea. The book is fairly explicit with poop content and we were singing in the spirit of the book. Hubby and I have always made up new lyrics to old songs on the spot for various occasions.

The next time Buttons sat on the potty, she wanted me to read "Everyone Poops" and after the final page was read, she implored me to "sing it". So, it's now become a musical staple in our house. This morning was no different. After we all read the book together and sang the song, she sat on the potty and although she didn't poop, she did sing "Everyone poooops". Sometimes.