Puddle

This morning, both kids were still asleep at 8.00 am, so I had the pleasure of being the one to wake them up... it's nice to be waking them up when it is usually the other way around! Sweet, sweet schadenfreude!

This morning was a rush-around morning as I had to get Thumper to Gran and GrandPaul's house by 9.00 am, then BallFiend to kindergarten by 9.30 am.

So I went into the kids' bedroom, opened the curtains and kissed them both good morning. I lifted a sleepy Thumper from her cot and carried her to the change table. When I removed her nappy, I discovered it was completely dry! She is well and truely still in nappies during the day, so a dry night-nappy is extraordinary. Being the opportunist that I am, I suggested that she might like to go on the potty and she readily agreed.

As much as she loves taking off her nappy and having a nudie-run, and as much as she loves pulling BallFiend's undies out of the clean washing basket and trying them on, and as much as she loves the idea of sitting on the potty, getting her to actually stay on the potty for more than a split second is near impossible. But this morning, in her sleepy state, she happily sat on the potty for several minutes. Upon rising, there was one teeny, tiny drop of wee. So we clapped and cheered and danced; and Thumper decided that she had now earned the right to a nudie-run and ran off down the hallway.


Despite knowing that there must be a whole night-time's worth of wee yet to come, I didn't chase straight after her - I paused to gather up her pyjamas first. I was only a moment behind her, but in that time she had let the flood come forth: a massive puddle was waiting, right in the middle of the hall-runner. We have floorboards throughout the entire house, but she made sure that she picked the only available piece of carpet available to wee on.

On the positive side, this mornings events tell me that:
a) she can hold on,
b) she knows how to choose where she wants to wee, and
c) she may well be out of night nappies before she is daytime toilet-trained!

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