She used the potty!

Our baby girl is definitely growing up! Elizabeth used the potty for the first time today. And, she kept up her record of always reaching her milestones while Mommy was there - she did it during my lunch hour!

We bought her a little potty seat and potty book around the beginning of December, just to get her thinking about the idea. She read her book diligently, and loved pushing the button that made the flushing sound:



And, she really loved the potty seat - because it had ELMO on it. So, for the last few weeks we haven't been pushing her to use it, but we've just been getting the potty seat out and letting her sit on it whenever she wanted to. She seemed to think it was a pretty fun game, but she never actually used the bathroom while she was on it.



Then, yesterday, she wanted to sit on the potty, so I sat and told her stories while she was on it for about 5 minutes. She thought that was a lot of fun, but she didn't actually use the bathroom during that time.

But, today, when I was home for lunch, she was acting like she needed to use the bathroom (you know, grunting and making her constipated look), so I asked her if she wanted to sit on her potty. She sat there for another 5 minutes or so, and actually used the potty - both pee-pee and poo-poo!

We let her put on some pull-up pants after that - I bought them a few weeks ago and told her she could wear them when she started using the potty, and she seemed to get a big kick out of putting on her "tweety-bird" pull-up pants. Of course, that didn't last long and David ended up putting her back in diapers. But, I'm just amazed that she did it once! I'm hoping this means potty training will be a little bit easier with her, although I don't plan to kick it into full gear until she hits 2. We'll keep you posted on the progress!