Potty Chair Update

 So I've been working hard (but not forceful) to get Elena to sit on her potty chair.  She has given me quite the resistance.  Elena is showing all the physical signs of being ready for potty training.  Over the weekend we did "pantie time"--this is a big deal.  She picks out panties to wear and then we try to make it to the potty chair when she needs to go pee.  The trick to getting her used to sitting on the potty chair is to have cartoons on TV.  TV is a miraculous object.

 Of course we have had some accidents but this morning after breakfast Elena said "potty chair".  I asked if she needed to go potty and she said yes.  I zipped her out of her jammies, removed her diaper and sat her on the potty chair.  Ten minutes later I asked her if she made any noise in the potty chair and she said "yes".  I couldn't believe my ears.  I had her stand up and there it was the first full tinkle in the potty chair.  We were so excited.

  Elena thought it was so interesting she squatted next to her chair to check it out.  She pointed and wanted to touch it.  She insisted on carrying the bowl back to the bathroom and of course she wanted to pour the pee into the big toilet and flush.

 After she flushed we watched the water whisk away and said "bye-bye".

It was a great moment and definitely a moment I wanted to extend by taking the week off work to finish training her up.  She is now enrolled in potty class at school.  She and another little girl are training together, so they go to the potties together (there are 2 potties).  With any luck she'll be 80% trained by 2.  Whew, I can't believe she'll be 2 so soon!  Where did all the time go???