Quick update

I'm horrid at updating. But I figured this one deserved a mini-post of it's own.

So Mike and I decided a while back that we are going to attempt to do what the rest of the world (minus America) does and potty train as early as we can. When we started researching it, we realized that the US is the latest country to potty train, with the average age being 3, but in 90 percent of the world, most children are potty trained by 1. Yes, you read that right. They are potty trained by ONE YEAR OLD.

Apparently, that was also the case in America until about 60 years ago.

We decided that it's not that children have gotten dumber, it's that parents have probably gotten lazier with the advent of disposable diapers. And we don't want Constance to be okay with sitting in her own pee and poop.

So a few months back, we bought her a potty chair. No, she still isn't walking on her own yet, but we thought that it's never too early to introduce it. And every time we go to the toilet, we sit her down next to us (we don't always remove the diaper- we just want her to get the idea), and before she gets to take a bath (her favorite thing in the world), she has to sit on the toilet for a minute.

She's actually peed a few times on the toilet, though we realize we probably need to teach her some baby sign language for when she needs to go. But yesterday she actually pooped on the toilet. She was really confused. We noticed she was about to go (oh, you can tell!), and brought her to the chair and she finished going there! She got lots of hugs and clapping for it, and though I'm not sure she knew what was going on, she was very proud of herself.

Respectfully, I did not photograph that particular event. That's too weird, even for me. But I thought I should document it here, and share with you guys. We haven't done "diapers off" yet, but we are waiting until she can walk on her own. Until then, we are proud that she has thus far lived up to every bar we have set for her, and she is still a very happy, silly little girl.