Potty Time

There are many milestones you face when raising your children and they come fast and furious. Some I have been overjoyed to reach, “She’s sleeping through the night, YAY!” and others have caused my eye to twitch and skin to crawl “She is taking steps and is way too close to the edge of the coffee table AGAIN.” I am now at the potty milestone and it is affecting me in surprising ways.

 

I thought I would be ecstatic to get rid of smelly and expensive diapers, and I am, but I am also a bit sad. Audrey literally was in diapers one day and underwear the next, and seeing her little bottom without the bulky diaper makes her seem so big. She is a big girl now, and I am reminded of it every time she yells “I have to go POOOOO- POO!!”.  I also am surprising overjoyed to watch a little human go number 2 and pride swells in my chest each time action occurs on the potty. I am however, not so excited to visit every public bathroom, multiple times in the course of an hour. Audrey not only wants to mark her territory but she wants to explore the restroom like we are on a jungle excursion in Africa. In the meantime, I am sweating in the hot, stuffy and germ filled bathroom, desperate to escape…much like I would feel on a jungle excursion.

Life flies by, it really does. Some hours or days may be long, but then all of the sudden something has significantly changed. For me I am now realizing my daughter is no longer a baby and that I shouldn’t be in such a hurry to reach the next milestone. I am going to enjoy clapping over pee-pee and wiping her little tooshie for a bit longer.