Potty Time

Last Saturday May 30th all of us went to Babies r Us to get our new cribs (our current cribs were recalled). While there we picked up some potty training supplies - a travel seat, a seat for Grandma & Papa's house, and some underwear. Nicholas picked out Thomas the Train and Celia picked out Dora underwear. I had some Gerber training underwear too (they just have extra fabric for leaks). When we got home we decided to give it a try. I really thought Celia was ready and Nicholas was not. That Saturday afternoon they both peed in their pants. We played with a Baby Alive potty doll and talked about going pee pee on the potty.
However, by Sunday Nicholas peed nicely during the day and stayed dry when he was awake. Celia's first dry day was monday. This first week of wearing underwear while awake (they wear diapers at night) they stayed dry almost the entire time - maybe 4 accidents all week total. Celia is going all by herself. She will walk to the bathroom, sit on the potty, wipe/flush, pull up her pants and then tell me she needs a treat. Nicholas still needs a bit of help with the pulling underwear up, but he goes whenever he sits on the potty too. Seriously, I don't know that this could have been much easier. We have even been out of the house at stores and at our small group bible study and they wore underwear. At our small group they both peed on the travel seat! Neither of them like the little potty. They both only want to sit on the actual toilet. I'm so impressed with them potty training so fast. They sure were ready!

And as a cute memory to add for myself:
Today Nicholas and Celia were playing outside and I was nursing Aaron in a chair outside and Nicholas was "going to go to the store to buy bananas (or 'mananas' as they say). He rode up to me and said, "Bye! Love you!" It was the first time he said 'love you' like that. Almost makes me teery eyed just thinking about it. They will be all grown up before I know it.