Potty Plunge

Elise pooped in the potty for the first time ever tonight (if you don't count that one time we had to give her a suppository when she was 9 months old, which I don't, mostly because I never want to think about that again). It was definitely more of us catching her than her initiating the process, but we still acted really excited and told her what a great job she had done. She was in the tub when she started to poop. When I saw the way she was acting, plus the concerned look on her face, I whipped her out of the bath and onto the toilet. In my haste to put her on the potty, I accidentally plunged her leg into the toilet bowl. She was already wet, naked, and headed back to the bath promptly, so no real harm done, right? Plus, she regularly dips her fingers in the toilet water just for fun, so I know she wasn't worried.

Maybe this experience (pooping in the potty, not having her leg dipped in the toilet bowl) will help her get the hang of going potty on the toilet. One can only hope.

P.S. I almost titled this post "Slam Dunk." Then I realized that some people call pooping taking a slam, and that's not what I intended at all. But it's still kind of funny, in a middle school kind of way.