"Big Girl!"

Sydney is now officially a "big girl!" She almost always goes to the bathroom on the potty now, and rarely has accidents, even when we are away from home! We are so proud of her. She loves it when we call her a big girl, and knows that it is a compliment. It's funny because now when she is trying to compliment us she will tell us, "Mommy, you're a big mommy!" Or when Cooper does something we see as an accomplishment, "Coopy, you're a big baby!" So cute! Here is a picture of her potty training in action. I had to laugh that she was just hanging out, crossing her legs. Sometimes if she said she had to poop, we'd let her watch Cars or Finding Nemo on Matt's i-pod, so she'd sit long enough to actually go.

I am so glad the struggles with potty training are pretty much behind me now... at least for 2 more years! It is amazing how much of a process it is. Sydney got the 'peeing' part down pretty quickly, in about two days. But it took much longer for her to feel comfortable with going on toilets outside of our home, and going poop took a while too. A few weeks ago we went to a vacuum repair shop with my mom. They had this little play vacuum that Sydney wanted SO BAD! I told her that if she started going poop on the potty, we would buy her a vacuum. So once she was consistently going poop, we went to Target and bought a much cheeper version for her. She loves her "little bubbles!" Her favorite place to vacuum is the kitchen. Too bad it doesn't actually vacuum, it'd help me out a lot!