Two and Then Some

I am generally a picture only blogger, but I don't have a picture to go along with the HUGE milestone Payton crossed today. She started potty training!!! A while back I allowed myself the freedom to postpone any thoughts of potty training our youngest until at least the summer. What's the rush, right? Besides, I seriously HATE potty training...if you know me at all, you know that I have a "hands free" method for just about anything gross you can think of, but there's no "hands free method" for potty training. Yuck!
Anyway, it was going to be at our leisure this time. A couple of times at night in the months past, I would try to put little miss on the potty, but boy would she scream! So, there was another fantastic reason to wait. Well, several of my friends with children Payton's age decided to potty train now, so I put her back on the potty just to see, and what happened??? She became obsessed! She LOVED going potty and would throw tantrums if we told her no. So, I put her in big girl panties last Friday just in the evening, and she did fantastic. No accidents. A nasty stomach bug got us that night, so we jumped straight back into diapers.
Well, all week she has begged to go potty, so on Tuesday night I caved. I took her over to the outlet mall where she picked out some new panties. This morning when she woke up I took her diaper off and she put on her new panties. She was such a big girl all day. She didn't have a single accident. Our little princess got the hang of it like she'd been doing it for years. In all fairness, having a 4 year old sister truly helped a lot, I think. Payton is convinced that she is 4 just like Maci and that she can do anything Maci can do. That may not be great in some areas of her little life, but boy was it great for potty training...especially for her squeamish mommy!
Who knows what tomorrow holds, but today was AWESOME!!! I am beside myself proud of her. What a little big girl! (just say a little prayer for her teachers at MDO tomorrow...don't know how that's going to go) If nothing else, day number 1 was an enormous success!
Yeah, Payton!!!