Sleeping Beauty with purple eyes!

For about the past six months I've been working on potty training Evelyn. I think that a month after Ryan left Evelyn got the whole peeing in the toilet thingy down. No problem. Ryan was very surprised and pleased that she was able to do it while we visited him. She now stays dry through the night too! The pooping part though...well, for the life of me (or her) I couldn't get Evelyn to do her deed in the toilet. Her simple response was:

"But Mommy, I just don't know how!"

This is even after we made a deal that she would get a Sleeping Beauty with purple eyes from Walmart (it's a polly pocket type toy that she's been eyeing since right after Christmas). Everyone who she has ever talked to knows that she'll get "sleeping beauty with purple eyes" when she goes poopoo on the toilet.

Inwardly I've been groaning about her not pooping cause I remember that it took Jacob a full year til he got that part down. Peeing was no problem for him, but I was seriously worried that I'd have to send him to kindergarten in a pull up. It was just the summer before he started school that he FINALLY was able to go like a big boy. I've been kinda gearing myself up for that kind of situation with Evelyn...til this afternoon. :) We were at Walmart picking little things up when Evelyn mentioned that she needed to use the bathroom. It was the kind that couldn't wait so we found the nearest bathroom. She proceeded to go and I noticed that she had peed in her diaper. Just an accident...she really needed to go! I decided to just throw the diaper away and put a new one on when we got home (I didn't have an extra one in my purse). No biggie, I thought, she already pooped this morning so we're good for the day. The rest of the day was a non stopping blur til after the kids were all picked up from school and I was trying to get Julia out the door for dance class. Evelyn then came to me in hysterics:

"Mom! I don't have a diaper on! I need a diaper!"

Hmmm, I thought. Why does she need a diaper if she knows how to just pee in the toilet? Wait a moment...she DIDN'T poop this morning--it was yesterday morning!!!!

"Evelyn, let's go on the potty so that you can go pee."

I escorted her to the bathroom where she promptly went pee but still insisted on having a diaper.

"Evelyn, do you need to go poop? Is that why you need a diaper?"

"*sniff* Yes."

LOL. I sat down with her and comforted her while explaining that it can be scary at first but that she would be just fine. She sat there for about 10 minutes and it finally came spilling out (gross description, I know, but she has liquid poops at the moment). She has since gone about 3 more times and has been quite excited about it. (Who am I kidding? All the kids raced into the bathroom and cheered her on and gave her hugs--while she was still sitting there). I'm quite proud to say that we went back to walmart this evening and bought her her very own sleeping beauty with purple eyes. Oh, and she's now wearing the princess underwear which I blogged about a while back. :)