SLOWLY BUT SURELY, WE'RE GETTING THERE...

Miss Liv has been using the potty chair here and there for the past few weeks. I say "here and there" as she seems to decide when she feels like going in her pants and when she feels like going on the potty chair. At times she will walk on up to me and say "Mommy, potty" and make her way into the bathroom, drag her potty chair out to the living room, take off her clothes and diaper, plop her little bottom down and go. Just like a pro - like she had been doing this sort of thing forever. Other times she will walk up to me and say "Mommy, potty in diaper" and she will stand there with such a look of concentration on her face as she is literally going to the bathroom in her diaper. Little stinker.

So lately I have been making a little bit bigger than usual deal out of when she decides to use the potty, so as to make her want to ditch the diapers for good.

This morning she was apparently in the mood to use the potty chair, and Ava was in the mood to document the celebration using my camera.

Here my girl is, sitting on the potty, with her "smile Liv" grin on her face.

Soon after this, she hopped up off the potty chair to proudly show us that she had indeed gone.

We clapped, laughed and yelled out lots of celebratory things such as "Yay!!" and "You did it Liv!!!" and "Good job, you are such a big girl!!"

After slipping on her big girl Dora underwear, she decided the celebration was not over. Apparently all of the clapping, and words of encouragement were not enough for my girl. So it all continued on, Ava and I shouting out "Yay! Great job! Wooo-hooo! We are so proud of you Liv!!" We clapped some more and even added some jumping around to the celebration.

We did some hugging,

and some more jumping,

And we ended the whole celebration with a sucker and a little ride on her favorite horse.

All of this before 8am this morning.

Needless to say, Miss Liv was very proud of her accomplishments on the potty chair.

I'm hoping that a few of these types of celebrations will do the trick and get my girl to use that potty chair of hers all of the time. 'Cause doing this too often is simply going to wear this Mama out.