It's Potty Time!!!

[jenP_97]

Hey!

Ginger's finally using the potty!  Yay!

Er... anyway, we've been stressing out about Ginger being 
potty trained for about a year now, but she kind of developed 
a mental block about it, so we decided to take a "hands-off" 
attitude and just let her decide when she was ready.  We 
completely expected her to be in diapers on her first day of 
pre-school (September), and then finally be convinced (thanks 
to peer pressure) that the potty wasn't so bad.  But lo and 
behold, day before yesterday, she decided that she wanted to go 
potty!  And though that day wasn't very sucessful, yesterday was
excellent!  No accidents, no diapers until bedtime - it was 
great!  She had a little accident this morning and got a little
discouraged, but we convinced her to try again, and it's been 
just fine so far.  We're just so excited that she is finally 
deciding to be a "big girl", and though she will probably regress 
back into diapers once the baby comes, we are confident that we 
won't hit such a daunting road block the next time.

So hah!  Take that, mother-in-law-who-thinks-I'm-a-bad-mom-for-
not-having-Ginger-trained-by-age-2!

Jen, who had a busy week last week, but got a free sushi birthday
dinner thanks to her dad, and a WONDERFUL birthday present from 
her big-girl daughter!!