Eliza's version of potty training

Step 1:  Sit on the potty chair

 Step 2:  Pull out the magazines

Step 3:  Read it while you wait for something to happen

 

Step 4:  When you go, throw the magazine on the floor, and clap for yourself

Step 5:  Reach for the toilet paper and wipe when mom hands you a piece

Step 6:  Flush the toilet

Step 7:  Wave bye bye to the contents as you close the toilet seat

Step 8:  Wash your hands

Step 9:  Put a diaper back on

 

In all actuality, Eliza has been using the potty daily since 8.5 months.  Recently, she goes potty 4-5 times a day.  We still have plenty of wet diapers, but  no poopy ones - she almost always goes stinky in the potty (that is if you take her often enough).  She enjoys using the potty, she gets excited every time I put her on. 

 

Twice, she has told me (in her own way) she needed to go.  Once we were playing and laughing in the living room.  She suddenly pointed down the hall.  When I walked down the hall with her, she pointed to the potty.  I put her on, and sure enough she went both numbers.  If her diaper is wet, she tells me by patting the front of her pants.  For a girl that can't walk on her own, and doesn't say any words at 15 months, she is well on her way to being potty trained. (hopefully!)   I'm not pushing her in anyway; in fact, I have no idea how to potty train, but as long as she keeps going and is interested, we are going to keep doing it.  Before I know it, the girl may be out of diapers.