I was upstairs, Ellie and Will were playing downstairs.  And then I heard “MOM!  ELLIE’S PEEING ON THE POTTY!  YOU GOTTA COME SEE THIS!”  By the time I got downstairs she had hopped off and was tossing a ceremonial bit of toilet paper into the potty before flushing. 

She’s never gotten up on the toilet by herself before—she’s always told me and I’ve lifted her on it.  On Sunday morning all of a sudden she knew how to get off the potty (which I was concerned about—it ruins the ‘you might as well pee since you’re stranded here’ element) but she has done so well in the last couple of days I think we can removing the ‘ing’ from “Ellie’s potty training” and add a ‘ed’ as in “she’s potty trained!” Now she’s doing it independently!!! 

I’m so glad I stuck with it.  There were definitely some days where I thought I should pack it in, but last week she went Monday-Wednesday without an accident (then pooped on the kitchen floor on Thursday) but she’s even rock-starring it with errands and at night now!  Last night at 2am she woke up, I went in to lay her back down, she signed ‘potty’ so I took her, she peed immediately, then went back to her crib.  Before she’s just held it all night!  Yesterday she went pee on her baby potty all by herself while I was in the kitchen (she was wearing a bubble, so she peed straight through it—but it was huge that she did the whole thing by herself) and she’s been doing great with pooping on the potty, too (always harder to get the kids to do on the potty than pee). 

I’m super proud of her!