Potty prize!!!

WARNING: potty talk ahead

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Elsie has been ROCKING it today on the potty!

This is the stroller she is earning.

She really wants it bad, and every time we go in the bathroom, she says "We got to get that stroller!"

But it is way cuter in her little voice.

We started this morning by putting on some underwear.

We made sure she always had a drink.

Then we took a trip to the bathroom every 15 min.

Nothing.

She just kept holding it.

She loved to sit on the potty, and was good about it, but nothing was happening.

Then about 11:00 she was upstairs and slid down the stairs...something she always does and thinks is so funny.

Well, she was laughing pretty hard...and guess what?

Yep...she peed.

She was NOT a happy girl.

We talked her through it...no big deal.

We kept doing what we were doing.

She had another accident.

Again, NOT happy, actually kinda traumatized about it.

But we worked through it again.

But after that, it was like a switch went off in her head.

We had a couple times when she started to go, then stopped and started to cry to me telling me she needed to go.

She did that several times without any accidents, but not going on the potty either.

I knew her bladder was filling up.

The thing about Elsie is, I know she can hold it.

But we aren't sure if she is able to release it on her own.

You know...it all being muscle related.

Anyway...

But guess what automatically releases those muscles?

Laughing, of course.

So I started to make her laugh...and she peed.

She cried...it kinda freaked her out like pooping freaked her out yesterday.

But she got over it, and that is how the rest of the day went.

I guess she just needs to figure out what muscles to let loose.

I teased with Brent saying that I am gonna end up giving her some kind of trained response complex when she is grown up, and she is gonna end up peeing every time she laughs!

That won't be good.

I am so proud of her, and confident she will get it.

No pooping today, hopefully tomorrow.